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by p3ll0n 16y ago
In addition to Lincoln's thoughts I think one of the main reasons bioinformaticians are attracted to Perl is because it is forgiving. Biological data is often incomplete, fields can be missing, or a field that is expected to be present once
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Hacking the Smart Grid(technologyreview.com)
3 points by p3ll0n 16y ago|7 comments
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How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project(drdobbs.com)
40 points by p3ll0n 16y ago|26 comments
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Energy Proportional Datacenter Networks(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
3 points by p3ll0n 16y ago|0 comments
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Some questions to ponder while we all continue to wait for the new NRC rankings: Are the data that will be used in the rankings losing their analytical validity since they will be from the 2005-2006 academic year? Why wasn't the NRC able to
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
yeah the quality is going to be terrible and your going to hear a lot hissing but it will work!
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Two more that come to my mind ... 1. Comparing local and remote files $ ssh user@123.4.5.6 "cat /tmp/remotefile" | diff - /tmp/localfile 2. Outputting your microphone to a remote computer's speaker dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C usernam
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Today was the first time I have visited SeatGeek and while I haven't used it to make a purchase yet I certainly made sure to add it to my bookmarks. Great service that serves a real need (Craigslist/StubHub/etc are all a royal pain to navig
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Reminds me of an academic project I ran across once that has had a mixed record of success ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
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Why Software Development is Different ...(p3ll0n.net)
13 points by p3ll0n 16y ago|21 comments
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
For a more humorous take on this issue check out http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/31/106-facebook/
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Total cost of software ownership(johndcook.com)
3 points by p3ll0n 16y ago|2 comments
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
A main problem for speaker independent automatic speech recognition systems is the variability of the speech signal - i.e. the same sequence of words uttered by different speakers or even uttered several times by one speaker never results i
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Interesting comment on related article by NYT that offers some insight into what type of behavior this bill may be aimed at curbing ... http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/bill-could-make...
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
I like this model a lot but what if it was "pay what you can", not "pay what you want"? While subtle I think this change in the verb drastically changes the game. Not only is it much harder than you’d think to evaluate for yourself what you
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
The key/value model embraced by NoSQL databases (Scalaris, Voldemort, Tokyo Cabinet, etc) is the simplest and easiest to implement but inefficient when you are only interested in querying or updating part of a value. This article ( http://s
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
"Our culture celebrates the idea of the workaholic. We hear about people burning the midnight oil. They pull all-nighters and sleep at the office. It’s considered a badge of honor to kill yourself over a project. Workaholics wind up creatin
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
What I find most troubling about this 'dilemma' is that the reach of broadband nationwide is unknown. There is no comprehensive tracking of broadband service, including which neighborhoods, towns and cities have it and which don't. No feder
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
I thought Michael Lewis' "Liar’s Poker" was describing a world that was ending, not that a world was beginning. And what it was describing, it turns out, is a period in finance that went on for another 25 years or 20 years. The incentives f
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Looking at these techniques I see them all leading towards a series of behaviors that we’ve learnt as kids, and that turn out to be quite useful in tapping into our "creative side". Behaviors like exploration, which is about going for quant
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Lisp is certainly great, and Clojure looks like a reasonable lisp. I wonder why the JVM attracts untyped languages while .NET attracts typed ones. Could it be that the Java language has damaged people’s ideas of what types are for?
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
It's great to see folks providing commercial consulting/hosting/support for CouchDB in the same vein as Cloudera (Hadoop/HBase), MongoHQ (MongoDB), etc! CouchDB is great but don't get me wrong ORMs like ActiveRecord and DataMapper have done
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Moore's Outlaws(technologyreview.com)
2 points by p3ll0n 16y ago|0 comments
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
A more humorous take on MySpace's slow demise ... "For a brief period of time, MySpace was the site where everyone kept their profile and managed their friendships. But soon, the service began to attract fake profiles, the wrong kind of whi
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Software development is different because ...(blog.p3ll0n.net)
2 points by p3ll0n 16y ago|0 comments
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Forbes had an interesting article http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0607/opinions-houston-immi... recently that had a narrower focus (Houston) but touches on many of the same topics ... innovation, job growth and immigration ... and how t
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
I believe the author makes several interesting points about the aspects of Joost's business model and corporate culture that might of lead to its failure, however, one aspect not touched on is the user experience of the product itself. When
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
Four rules that should be tattooed on the back of every technical writer’s hands so they can’t accidentally forget it. 1. Poor grammar and bad writing are often a sign of poor comprehension. 2. Good documentation takes time. 3. Deep experti
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
What really sets GitHub apart, is not that it uses Git, but how elegantly it pulls everything together (source control, new API discovery, networking, site hosting) around a set of core social networking ideas.
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by p3ll0n 16y ago
James Hamilton, VP at Amazon and author of the popular blog "Perspectives" has some interesting insights into and great things to say about the work SeaMicro and other new startups are doing to revolutionize the server industry. http://per

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