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by clinth 6y ago
GOG is excellent for this reason and my experience playing older/unsupported games from them is top-notch. It stings to buy an older game again, but they're almost always inexpensive, and you can say, "Well, this is the very
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by clinth 7y ago
I get where you're coming from, but go to Stadia's page. Click "Buy Now". You land at $130 plus $10/month with no other options. This isn't a future product or preorder, this is launch. The hardware and service
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by clinth 7y ago
Right now, $130 is the only edition. I think the one you're talking about comes out next year.
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by clinth 7y ago
New York Genome Center | Software Engineer | New York, NY | Full-time | ONSITE NYGC is not a software company; it is a sequencing lab trying to push science at scale, and needs software to do so. We are hungry to become the lead sequencing
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by clinth 8y ago
We do not, we're a combination of grant-driven research, production/clinical genome sequencing, and scale computing; the work is hard to structure for ad-hoc volunteer contribution.
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by clinth 8y ago
Doing software work in support of scientists trying to cure cancer. Scientists aren't curing cancer with a notebook and pen, they have have problems that a software engineer can really help with. Boring internal software, with some pub
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by clinth 8y ago
Agreed. I love Thunderbird, and gave it a shot last year as my work email client (exchange). Loved almost everything, but ultimately the search and lack of threading sent me back to outlook web access.
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by clinth 8y ago
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson -- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Ne... First half of the book changed my life, and second half is merely good. I wrote a full review
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by clinth 8y ago
New York Genome Center | Princpal Software Engineer | New York, NY | Full-time | ONSITE NYGC is not a software company; it is a sequencing lab trying to push science at scale, and needs software to do so. We are hungry to become the lead se
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by clinth 9y ago
GOG is a good curator/vendor for old games. A fan put together a list of scummvm-compatible games here: https://www.gog.com/mix/games_compatible_with_scummvm
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by clinth 9y ago
I love it but use it only to view and process notes/deadlines/status from my mothership org files (maintained on non-mobile computers). I don't think I'd use it as a primary note application.
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by clinth 9y ago
> I get what you mean, but would argue that, "it only takes 2-3 trolls plus 300 people who respond to them to create a 300-comment shitshow". An ignored troll is a powerless troll. They get their power to disrupt from the respo
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by clinth 10y ago
Scheduling a meeting for 5am does not overlap with most people, while scheduling a meeting at 3pm does. You understood that when you scheduled it for a time that you were available and your coworkers weren't. They're not wrong for
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by clinth 10y ago
I have a ton of respect for people who choose not to have children, for whatever reason. Good on them. I think the societal drive to marry and have children is bullshit, especially for women. You can be a fully-realized person without child
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by clinth 10y ago
Yes, No, Yes. However, it's possible to be a parent, read and understand his position, and not get into personal attacks. I respect Stallman a mountain, including his choice not to have kids, but the essay is muddied. It starts with ex
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by clinth 10y ago
Thanks for asking, I've updated the listing. You can use the NYGC careers page; also happy to respond to direct question via the email listed on my personal home page.
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by clinth 10y ago
New York Genome Center | http://www.nygenome.org | SoHo in New York City | ONSITE New York Genome Center is a nonprofit in SoHo aiming to become a leading sequencing lab and general driver of genomics science excellence. NYGC&#x
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by clinth 10y ago
Mercury/amalgram fillings isn't the best example, but biocompatibility is still the primary constraint. Mayo clinic has a good overview and timeline regarding the discovery process for cobalt-chromium, which was previously thought
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by clinth 10y ago
It's been quite a long time since I studied this, but the primary problem with materials in implants is the quality of being bioinert. Many titanium alloys are not bioinert. Any combination would have to be tested separately.
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by clinth 11y ago
Requests - https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests . How to make a usable api. The decisions that went into each method call were fantastic. Great test coverage as well. I use package in most python development.
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by clinth 11y ago
Why embed the message in an image, instead of text?
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by clinth 11y ago
> I don't really get why giving only 25%? Valve took their ~30% platform charge, and left the remaining amount to be split per the discretion of the publisher of the game, in this case Bethesda. Bethesda chose to give mod makers rou
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by clinth 12y ago
It's a slideshow, probably intended to accompany a presentation. I used my right and left arrow keys to navigate.
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by clinth 12y ago
while I can see not wanting to provide a full movie metadata API, having "is this or is this not available on Netflix right now" seems like a really important API to have, one that allows websites people use to browse and find mo
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by clinth 12y ago
I haven't worked at companies who think along these lines, but friends of mine in the private sector have received bonuses similar to those they'd get for excellent annual performance: a stock grant or cash bonus ($3-5k, although
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by clinth 12y ago
Small correction: you get a year of Prime free with purchase of the phone, and if you're already a Prime member, they extend your existing membership by one year. This is way down the page though. I'm really surprised that they
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by clinth 12y ago
Cross-platform: Dropbox, Sublime Text, Toodledo, Balsamiq Mockups, Pinboard, Newsblur OSX: Alfred 2, Dash, Pixelmator, Clearview Win: ExpanDrive Other: Linode, Dreamhost (legacy) Funny enough, my home machine is Windows and I spend far more
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by clinth 13y ago
It might be weird, but I'm a thank-you letter writer. I wouldn't write those exact letters, but I've written similar sentiments. I've written my CEO, because I live in a house I bought with money earned from this job, ra
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by clinth 13y ago
> How great do Yahoo's investors feel that their CEO is spending her time on trying to be designer instead of streamlining and turning her company around. Depends how it turns out. Steve Jobs spent a lot of time on details, with the
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by clinth 13y ago
I was a technical reviewer of that book (although no knowledge of PCI in practice), and I found it to be less moment-specific and more general grounding and strategy than I expected. It really is a good book.

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