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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
This is a fantastic point. Payments in particular have been intimidating for me. Nobody wants to pay for something and then have some goofy mistake on the backend mess up processing it. Or even worse, make them feel like their credit card i
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Django has been a joy to work with. As other's have mentioned, I'm a huge fan of their documentation. I think they do a great job of letting you quickly hop between Tutorial and Reference docs. Lots of links help me quickly dive i
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
> JS is forced everywhere I think this has a lot to do with it, interestingly. The web has become so ubiquitous, and the major players are so resourced, that the barrier to entry can seem really high. Maybe I'm wrong, but my percept
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
I heard there's a great new site that can help you learn about bio if you're interested... You know, if the site will let you login, that is. ;)
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
As my PI used to say, "If it were easy, it wouldn't be fun. And we wouldn't have jobs."
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Oh no! It's github pages and totally static, so it should recover pretty easily, I hope. Thanks for the archive though!
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
It's kind of ironic. While I've been thinking about the complexity of software/webdev for a while, I was feeling a little unsure about posting this particular link because I wrote it in a hasty, semi-embittered fit of annoyan
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
This has been my first experience with it and it seems like a great tool to ensure structured thinking. It's easy to give up a level or two deep and just say, "Oh, it's probably because..."
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Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?(jessimekirk.com)
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Hey everyone! I’m excited to introduce CodeStories, an education platform for professionals, as well as our first publicly available course, Intermediate Python for Bioinformatics (InPyBio)! The purpose of InPyBio is to empower all life sci
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Show HN: CodeStories – Bioinformatics education platform and Python summer class(mycodestories.com)
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Note: I'm not affiliated with Insight in any way. I'd be interested to hear what people think about: 1. Income Share Agreements in general 2. The messaging around this price increase (from $0 to ~$18,000) premised on funding a new
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Insight Launches New Post-Program Experience Funded via Income Share Agreement(blog.insightdatascience.com)
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
This is pretty cool. Anyone have thoughts as to _why_ they’re making this move?
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
> you may want to start off by scraping all the profile pages instead Oddly enough, I'm in the middle of this project right now! There are over 600,000 users, and it turns out that many of them use their profiles to share links to t
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
What are some examples of communities that are significantly "healthier" than HN? I'm particularly curious about communities that are "similar" to HN. Use whatever definitions of "healthier" and "simi
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
I love jupyter notebooks. Without them, I wouldn’t have been half as productive as I was during my PhD. Here’s a post I wrote just a few weeks ago describing some of the conventions that I established for myself over the course of 5 years:
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
Yea, I would second this. I've always enjoyed Heroku, but feel like I'm paying a premium because I don't know enough to do "real" cloud work. "If I were a more experienced developer, I could run this on AWS for
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
“Clinical Exome Studies Have Inconsistent Coverage” seems like a significantly better title. The current HN one doesn’t make sense.
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
Incidentally, this is also one of the main points of “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” by Yuval Noah Harari. His argument is that human’s morality is built for interacting with a small tribe of people. You know where your moccasins come fro
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
> Time to break out the champagne! This was a lot of fun; I'd definitely play level 2. The nice thing about it was that you had some flexibility around getting the exact SQL query, and just visualizing a slightly larger superset of
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned AppHarvest yet. The NYT[1] recently covered them. Their investor list in and of itself is pretty interesting. Plus, their building out of Morehead, Ky. Morehead was the “big city” when I was growing up, so
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Reddit as a StackExchange Alternative(hierapp.blogspot.com)
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
#2, and this comment in general, is a great point. I recently wrote my first piece of productivity software, which I use everyday. The main benefit I get out of it is reminding myself, “This structure is how I want to think about things.” T
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
I find myself on Chris' site all the time https://chrisalbon.com/
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
Another +1 for sentry. I used it (basically accidentally) for a year because it's part of the cookiecutter-django framework[1]. I don't think there was a single issue with it the whole time we used it. [1] https://githu
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
Multiple good points here! I should have said “useful in a year without context.” or something similar. The daily write-ups will always be directly available from the aggregated summaries. But pictures are another great way of providing con
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
Both, I suppose. The app is far enough along that I’m using it myself (for work and the project), but it’s still messy and I’m iterating on it. An “Export data” is on my TODO, but not done yet, so the notes are currently trapped.
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
I had heard similar advice before, so when I started a new job this past spring, I decided to try it out for myself. As I go through the day, I write down what I’ve accomplished. I closed out a ticket, helped someone fix a bug, went to a me
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by LifeIsBio 7y ago
Visiting Egypt, particularly as an American, is an amazing experience. I tend to think of the American Revolution as “a long time ago”. After all, that’s when the country began. Egypt, on the other hand, is a whole different ball game. It’s

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