LifeIsBio

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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
A quick Zillow search shows multiple places in Potrero that are for sale and under $2M right now. I've been casually watching the area for most of the year and there's usually a place or two available in the $1.3-$2M range at any
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Ask HN: Command line tool like Pandas?
2 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|2 comments
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Also commented here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23504979 ), but looks like they're back up already.
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Looking good! I'm back up (both checkout and dashboard).
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
https://checkout.stripe.com/ also looks down for me. :(
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Yep. Down for me too. The dashboard won't load and the front page returns an Internal Error.
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Intermediate Python for Bioinformatics enrollment ends today(mycodestories.com)
1 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|0 comments
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Post to HN on Sundays for the most points(mycodestories.com)
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Python for Bioinformatics Course(mycodestories.com)
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Ah, right. That makes a lot of sense. Similarly to what I mentioned in the parent comment, CodeStories as a “platform” isn’t ready for market yet. It’s feature complete enough that I or one of my teammates can easily use it to teach a class
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Personally, I've found it really useful to look at student's intermediate commits. I don't judge them on it in any way, but it's extremely useful for seeing how the students are thinking about a given problem.
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Never seems like the correct answer to me too. Everyone I've introduced to it outside of CS doesn't see an immediate appeal.
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have any particular examples that are conflicting? Would be happy to update the site to clarify any confusion. In a sentence, the product right now is an 8-week bioinformatics course. It happens to use the Co
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Wow. What a mixed feeling of (mostly) amazement and (some) disheartenment. I started looking into this space--particularly the autograder feature with full control of the execution environment, which looks look it was added to GH Classroom
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What’s a Bioinformatics Systems Engineer?(mycodestories.com)
1 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|0 comments
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
I read through this waiting to get to the controversial part and never found it. This is good advice not only for CS but for any rigorous degree. One of my favorite classes in undergrad was Ultimate Frisbee because it ensured I got some aer
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Ask HN: How do you feel about income sharing agreements (ISAs)?
2 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|0 comments
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Using Covid-19 to Explain Community Detection(mycodestories.com)
1 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|0 comments
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
This is neat! One small thing I noticed is that in the Binomial theorem, “k=0” is hidden by sigma, unless I zoom in a little. If I zoom back out afterwards, it’s fine until I start scrolling again. I don’t know anywhere near enough css to g
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Easily Accept Payments with Django and Stripe(mycodestories.com)
2 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|0 comments
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Hmm... as an engineer in industry, if I decide I want to take a walk in the middle of the day, I make sure I don’t have any meetings, then I get up and leave. There are a lot of differences between academia and industry, but this isn’t one
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
I’m not sure exactly what it is about this comment, but I really like it. “Context” is a great word for this idea. There are a bunch of small/medium complexity things that need to play well together to get things to work, and it can fe
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
The site that's giving me problems isn't the site you were on, but another site I'm building: https://mycodestories.com/ It's not static; it's a platform for helping people (life scientists) learn t
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
I'm curious where you got the idea that the site is a shopping cart? CodeStories is a site to help life scientists learn to program by giving them problems, then letting them submit scripts and then auto-graded their scripts for correc
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
A little tangential, but learning to code through video games has always seemed like one of the best ways to do it, particularly with friends.
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
> It is not the neat and cut world of science research. You had me up until this last sentence. Everything I've experienced in science research is the opposite of neat or clean cut. Actually, I think I do my best programming and deb
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
That's super interesting. If someone asked me if bioinformatics was complex, I'd say "Yes, massively so." But then, I would take it in a totally different direction. To me, the complexity of bioinformatics come from the
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Oh, interesting. I just wrote a reply saying the exact opposite. I remember learning scientific computing as being much less frustrating. Sometimes you'd have some error spawning out of some ancient C/Fortran library. But that was
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
You're absolutely right. Webdev is certainly its own fully fleshed out fields. Oddly, I think I can play off your facetious quote and turn it into a more analytical way of framing what the post was about. "I am a biochem major but
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Two quick points here: 1. A few years ago, I probably would have made the mistake of actually hard-coding my connection strings, usernames and passwords. I'm pretty sure I did that on my first ever webapp, cause I didn't know any

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