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by etal 14y ago
Right, which is why the novel parts should get more attention and undergo code review, which is the goal of the Bioinformatics Testing Consortium. To be clear, I'm all for open science and even open notebooks where it's a good fit for the p
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by etal 14y ago
That's why we write papers. Plain English can be more coherent than a pile of code.
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by etal 14y ago
We should be clear which of two kinds of scientific code we're talking about: 1. A program that implements a new technique which forms an important part of a research project. Maybe a program that is the research project, which will be de
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The well-organized data science project(etalog.blogspot.com)
1 points by etal 14y ago|0 comments
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The Research Works Act: a comment(genomebiology.com)
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by etal 15y ago
If pre-publication peer review goes out of fashion, then another possibility if that the brand of major journals becomes more important. We still need a quick gauge of the quality of an article, other than its Google rank or number of pag
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by etal 15y ago
The major non-governmental funding agencies recently banded together to solve the problem roughly the way you suggest, by creating their own open-access journal which they will enourage their grantees to submit their work to. It will be cal
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by etal 15y ago
Apparently it brought NPG back to the negotiating table: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2010/08/nature_and_california_m... Unclear on the details, but presumably UC got a somewhat better price. (Note that UC was getting a better price than
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The statistics of the "Like" button(etalog.blogspot.com)
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by etal 15y ago
It's probably being poor, which also correlates with worse working environments. Remember, "drive until you qualify."
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by etal 15y ago
Unladen Swallow isn't dead, actually -- it just merged into the main CPython code base. The first few quarters of optimizations are in Python 2.7 (it's noticeably faster than Python2.6) and the more adventurous bits are on separate branches
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by etal 16y ago
This is also called "flow" or being "in the zone" -- focusing on one thing, intensely, without interruptions. It's one more reason to lump programming in with the other creative arts.
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by etal 16y ago
It looks like Wayland isn't quite aiming to replace X, but it's close -- X will run on top of Wayland (one day). More about the architecture: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html
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by etal 16y ago
LTS versions have stable patch-level releases every 6 months while they're supported (e.g. 10.04.1 was released in July, and there will probably be a 10.04.2 in January), so they're able to add drivers to the installer when they become avai
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by etal 16y ago
The word you probably want is "truthiness". If there's a fundamental difference between the weaselly narratives constructed by Fox News and the psychedelic screeds Thompson put out, it's that most reporters aren't making it explicit that th
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by etal 16y ago
It would if it were true, but it's not. Still an interesting question, though. I've seen cats focus pretty hard on certain things.
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by etal 16y ago
It's easier for students. When I'm on that schedule, I wake up around 7 a.m. (naturally), nap around 4:30 or 5 p.m., and go to bed around 1 a.m. It's maintainable when I don't have regular late-afternoon meetings, and very helpful during "d
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by etal 16y ago
I'm deeply curious where Clojure would fall in this comparison. Is Compojure as suave as Hunchentoot? Is string formatting just as flexible? In practice, is it a pain to have to fail over to Java library documentation when Clojure doesn't s
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by etal 16y ago
1. In the middle of a long flight, compare pilots' reaction times just before the nap to just after the nap. Result: After the nap, reaction times are 16% shorter. 2. Over the entirety of a long flight, test pilot reaction times initially,
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by etal 16y ago
Ruby, Perl and Python packages usually come with a README that says: This depends on these external packages: ... Java programs usually come with a bunch of .jar files which were once independent packages, but have been dropped into
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by etal 16y ago
If pip/Distribute eventually works as smoothly as apt-get, I'll be a happy guy.
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by etal 16y ago
Another way is to pick a top-notch library or framework in your target language, and learn to use that. For Clojure, I'd try making some clever charts with Incanter: http://incanter.org/ (Incidentally, the only new language I've been able
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by etal 16y ago
This problem is different from the Python issue Zed Shaw wrote about. In Java, developers will bundle dozens of random .jar files with their application. Other versions of these libraries may exist in a Linux distribution already, but speci
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by etal 16y ago
Force upstream to fix a bug and release a new version? And what if they don't? Quite a few packages in Debian have somewhat dormant upstream authors - the packages work, perhaps needing a few patches to compile with the latest versions of c
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by etal 16y ago
I tried a few LaTeX templates on CTAN awhile ago and settled on simplecv: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/simplec... It's fairly boring, but simple to use and flexible. Best, it makes good use of the space on the page
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by etal 16y ago
Maybe (I don't study this) but at least some of this pathway is also used in embryonic cells, so it's pretty fundamental. More often, cancer cells will evolve resistance to whatever inhibitor molecule is targeting them, i.e. mutate so the l
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by etal 16y ago
Here's the original article/abstract: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5998/1492
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by etal 16y ago
And in the old days, to hide dirt and especially to mask the yellow sweat ring that develops around the collar after many days of hard labor, companies issued blue shirts to their workers as a uniform. Hence, "blue collar" work.
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by etal 16y ago
Don't despair. Engineering is a nice lifestyle -- you can work at any size company, you can travel if you want, and you can switch to independent consulting or join a consultancy if you want. You can do a startup at any time, too; engineers
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by etal 16y ago
The U.S., especially the southeast.

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