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There are many scientific groups where even today, no form of version control is used, even for internal work, so Github is way ahead of what is current practice in many places. There is a lot of good scientific code in various repositories and I don't see why anything special is required. As computation becomes even more important across many scientific areas, there is a lot of need for discipline. If scientists learn how to use version control and repositories just by default, that will go a long way towards reproducibility.

The Galaxy project does a great job of trying to foster such an environment:

http://genomebiology.com/2010/11/8/R86

http://galaxy.psu.edu/

https://bitbucket.org/galaxy

http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Tool%20Shed
> Now I asked the guy if this is offered at every BOA branch, but he said this service is offered at that particular branch only.

The title is misleading
After three years of writing CRAPL-worthy code at an academic institution, I'm convinced this needs to be required of academic research. I've made plenty of mistakes that could have dramatically upset experimental conclusions - I assert that I've caught all the important bugs, but the odds will always say I haven't.
Kind of sad that these guys get so excited about something as simple as "sharing a meal/toast just like normal humans would." Must be lonely up there.
Precisely you have to be able to reproduce the experiment with out using the first ones code
I've spent thousands of dollars on ergonomic keyboards and chairs. In the end all of them were nothing more than a crutch.

Here is the comment I left on the original blog post, since I think most readers will miss it; I've shared this before here to one degree or another:

I can one up you on this, I cured my RSI.

My story is similar to yours (short of the rolfing and acupuncture.) Around 2005 developed extremely painful RSI. Just using a non-ergonomic keyboard hurt like hell within 10 minutes. The only thing that really helped was limiting my work and typing.

That was, until I started doing body weight exercises back in late 2010. Back in 2005 when it hit me hard I was lifting weights regularly. That led me to believe that the weight lifting was at least half responsible. I backed off all upper body strength training completely. I felt like I was physically damaging myself when I did.

I wanted to build up some basic strength so I got this book “You Are Your Own Gym.” I hadn’t done a pushup in years so I started out doing them against a wall. By the end of the month I was doing normal pushups no problem. Then one day I got really sick and sat in bed on my laptop. Hours in I realized I had no pain whatsoever. It was mind blowing. Just months earlier things had progressed so my hands were partially numb all of the time.

Its been over a year and a half now. I had a few tiny incidents were I developed minor pain. I can do pull ups all day long. I can do clapping pushups. I can do handstand pushups. No wrist pain using a laptop 12 hours straight. I was really cautious saying this at first but I’m pretty sure now that I’m cured — assuming I get up with my workouts.
You also have to consider which of these 2 are easier to understand:

api.example.com/v2/account

or api.example.com/account
Accept: application/vnd.steveklabnik-v2+json

And I'm not talking about how easy it is for Developers to understand. I'm talking about how easy it is for Everybody to understand.
Windows is fragmented? I use XP since 2002 and all programs are compatible.

Only very recently there are problems: DirectX10 doesn't work on XP and DOS programs don't work on Windows 7.

But still 99% of games and programs run on XP. Can you run a binary executable from 2002 on Linux or on Mac? How about binaries from 1995? On Windows they run just fine.
I did try a cortisone injection, which helped temporarily, but soon afterwards the pain while typing resumed.

Never, Ever take cortisone injection. Their damage can be massive. It's very tempting to take these injections because their effects is like magic.
I agree with you. The thing is, Apple haters need to read your comment just as much as the Apple lovers. On one side you have people thinking Apple invented everything while on the other people think Apple invented nothing and has done nothing for the world of computing.

I think the attitudes do show how powerful the Apple brand has become though. The worst thing a brand can do is become ho-hum and boring. People either love or hate Apple, which at the end of the day keeps both camps always thinking about Apple.
Well, you seem to overestimate the intelligence of my extension - it simply opens a JavaScript prompt to ask you ^^
Ah, sorry. The plugin is based on FireBreath, so you need to download and compile that. I'll fix up the build script so it checks for that.

edit: It should work now. If it doesn't, just email me.
I said hysteresis loss, but that's just the first barrier. Higher frequencies are also subject to the "skin effect" which requires thinner wires, therefore more wires or ones with lower resistivity (e.g., superconductors). Then you need to get transistors capable of handling the increased switching frequency, and you need to be able to deliver the increased drive current to the transistors.
As a homeschool graduate who used Saxon through high school, I agree with your assessment. The one issue I took with Saxon is that the original example problems when introducing a new concept were too easy. I was able to grok how to solve the problems for the first 5-10 lessons, without actually understanding the principles behind them. When the problems grew harder and actually required applying the concepts, I'd have to backtrack a couple of weeks. A bit of a bugger, but all in all I liked Saxon a lot.
Check out http://www.timeanddate.com. The last few years seems to avg 30-50 changes a year and there have been 11 updates so far this year. Time zones are a lot more dynamic than people think.
There's actually a tiny transformer and even tinier capacitors and inductors in these phone power supplies. The transformer is super-important, because it isolates the AC line from the output, which is necessary so you don't electrocute yourself on the power supply. AC switching power supplies from tiny cell-phone chargers to big computer supplies are split by the transformer into a primary-side connected to the line, and a secondary side connected to the output. For safety and by law, there can't be any direct electrical connection between the primary and secondary side, so even the voltage feedback control signals need to be isolated with small transformers or optoisolators. And even any circuit board traces between the sides are required to be separated by a couple millimeters.

P.S. Thanks everyone for the comments on my article.
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I find it depressing when people hate and demonize a whole democracy with very heterogeneous political life

...

these people of the Arab world's

wait - wut?
Yes you are right.Edit made.

More elaborately he told me that he knew for sure that none of the other branches in Virginia offered this service.

Some branch in California could be offering something similar.
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By the way, as a separate issue; if people were allowed to bid for organs. And assuming you're right that rich people horded them, then wouldn't the supply rise up to meet that new demand? Wouldn't more people sign up to be organ donors? Wouldn't we reach equilibrium where the supply side matched the demand side?
If poor people were getting fabulously wealth from committing to donate organs, and more lives were saved, wouldn't we eventually reach equilibrium? The 1% only need so many organs....
Poor people with money in their pockets and less organ shortage wouldn't be a horrible scenario. Maybe it would force the real hard work of cloning organs and improving a unsatisfactory system.

I must say, if it became an outright bidding system some people who society might say are less deserving than someone else might benefit. But that happens already! Look at Mickey Mantle who received a liver after a lifetime of alcoholism (and died soon thereafter).
Or Steve Jobs who shopped around for the best region to receive a new organ (he's not FROM Tennessee after all...).

So please tell me, how would a MORE market based system be significantly worse? It seems like we have the worst of everything right now in our pursuit of the idealistic fantasy that the system treats everyone equally and that organ donation should be a purely altruistic gesture.
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The documentation for setting up an LLC largely is cookie-cutter stuff. Most of the company formation issues that implicate lawyers involve equity allocation and IP rights; if you have a non-dramatic founding team and can defer questions about vesting and control, you can probably skip the lawyer.

Meanwhile (I'm a broken record on this): it's better to be incorporated than not incorporated; the contract liability protection you get from doing business as a corporation is significant.
I appreciate this may be the way the author likes it, but I wonder if they realize quite how asymmetric this is:

Don't make me leave my mail client, don't send me long emails, don't make me work to find your Twitter/LinkedIn, don't message me if you're not my target demographic BUT don't get someone to make an introduction for you, make sure you've got your MVP demo-able, make sure you've read everything in my blog (and from the comments here, don't ask questions and expect a personal answer).

Given the primary thing you want from an angel is time (which is another way of saying that the most valuable trait of an angel is their experience), this seems like an odd way to market oneself.
> Most science is based on physical observation of the experiment the code is just a offshoot of the test equipment.

Even if we accept this as true, I don't see why it's an argument against publishing code for that science which does directly depend on the simulations you run.

> you would want to repeat the experiment and implement ones own version of the maths behind it.

That's a good point, but only valid if the exact mathematics and methods are clearly explained elsewhere. But as the article states, usually there's ambiguity. And if I try to reproduce your simulation and get different results, it's very difficult for me to get enough confidence to call you out on it (perhaps I'm the one who screwed up). If I find a bug in your code, it's easy.
"Fragmentation means that the platform is divided into multiple incompatible versions."

You are describing only one aspect/axes of fragmentation: Operating System fragmentation. To really have a discussion of Android's fragmentation you have to take into account the entire mobile ecosystem. You must consider the fragmentation across 5 axes:

- User Interface

- Device

- Operating System

- Marketplace

- Service

FWIW, I wrote a piece that explains this taxonomy:

http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/01/14/fragmentation-is-not-the...
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I switched from OpenDNS to Google for DNS because I was tired of seeing ad pages when I mistyped a domain name in my browser. At least Google isn't hijacking NXDOMAIN results to make money. You can check your own DNS provider for this behavior as well as others with Berkeley's Netalyzr[1] Web service.

[1]: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/
The CEO is on a lot of corporate patent applications for contributing" to the invention. I have seen two CEOs on my applications for patents.
Exactly what I was thinking. It is important that the original code is vetted - for example during a peer review process - but to say that the entire code source is necessary to reproduce the result seems self contradictory.

Surely it should be reproducible especially without the original source code.

(EDIT: that's not to say that you shouldn't provide source code - it probably depends on the experiment)
Are you equating a cold-calling investment prospect with Mark Zuckerberg?

I don't believe Twitter qualifies as a valuable form of due diligence for an investor

No disrespect, but you're belief is incorrect. Anything and everything about you online is used when doing DD. Of course, if your product is fucking awesome, then the fact that your Twitter stream is empty is irrelevant. But if your product is fucking awesome, you aren't cold-calling VCs. VCs are cold-calling you.
Lie? I didn't lie. They never asked me.
Well, you keep talking about me instead about the topic,and I dont understand why you are disrespectful with my person. I will go back to reading on Logic, mi topic for this week. I got "Metalogic" from Hunter. Really, sorry for the noise.
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Sorry, I didnt mean to be harsh. I wanted to point that your comment is not actually relevant to the topic, and its distracting. Good luck!
some of it is available, like https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/ or sometimes locally, as a http://gitorious.org/ instance combined with other tools, like http://dtk.inria.fr/
The issue is whether you learned the actual skill (graphing, factorization, etc.) or just learned how to get the calculator to do it for you.

In many cases, the end results appear identical. However, I'd rather the upcoming engineers, scientists and mathematicians be banned from using calculators for anything more than basic arithmetic until they prove they do understand the concepts.
This argument quickly tends towards absurdum. Even with all of the materials, equipment and original experimenters, you cannot reproduce the context of the original results. But we can do our best to ensure that we can try to reproduce the original results.

So, while I might not be able to reproduce your raw data, I can at least make sure your analysis is error-free (we can argue about its correctness). Going further, if I have the necessary equipement, you can send me the raw materials (especially in the life sciences) so that I can try to reproduce your raw data in my lab. Etc as remains practical (obviously I can't ask you to send me samples from your breeder cores).
I completely agree that these things need to be open, but it's difficult to solve all these problems at once.

I'd tend to think that the original published pdf should remain as-is, a stand alone document.

However, I think the journal (and more importantly, the author's own website) ought to additionally provide a .zip download containing any supplemental materials. It would be nice if these generally included all figures in high-res, all nontrivial source code, and either the data or a link to the data online if it is large.
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I like the final line of the article. It is really basics, if you are making a product tailor it to the way the customer demands it. Path of least resistance, if there is an easier way it will be the way.
Perhaps that the real business of WakeMate is the software they build, not the wristband.
RSI began. I switched to Dvorak. It never came back.

(Yes, I've read the critiques of Dvorak's research on alleged speed and accuracy. But your fingers definitely don't travel as far - it could hardly be otherwise - and my fingers were a lot less sweaty afterward.)
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Hm, you removed important grammatical structure...

"Not interested in [x, y, z, just a, b, or] anything involving physical products"
http://alanhogan.com/code/tabs-in-textareas I link to a bookmarklet here that should help. (You can hit Esc to break out of the textarea, I believe)
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So, in a nutshell, we're seeing a swing back to RPC. I think that's great, bidirectional RPC is much nicer than REST.

REST is great, but a good portion of the time proper rest begins to feel like square peg round hole, that's why we see endless discussions of 'proper' rest.
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Thats not the point, the point is if INDEC lies or not. Maybe in the metric used by INDEC, 15% is unbearable high
> Minimum wage laws destroy jobs and reduce overall welfare

Cite, please.
Cool, but remember that Gmail automatically saves, to your drafts folder, everything you enter into a new email message.
I think this research on phantom limb pain covers offers some interesting insights into the brain and pain, I am not saying plenty of people do not have real symptoms or issues!
http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/21/phantom_limb_pa/
Do we really need to write this down as the law of the land?

We reason from our perspective and it is easy for us to view ourselves as the model of people and when we reflect on ourselves and even our peer group we come to the conclusion that no we don't need to write this stuff down because we are civil. About this time some guy cuts you off in traffic and about flips you and your kids. It is at this point that having these simple rules written down helps. Not only might they help the guy that cuts you off, if he happens to see the wisdom of the book, but they also help us in reflecting on the situation and giving people the benefit of the doubt. What if that guy had a person having a heart attack in the back seat. It may very well change your entire perspective of the situation. I used to think that it was all common sense, until I realized that common sense is not common at all. I also think that there is a lot of wisdom contained in the book. Some of it is very nuanced such as the parable of the king and the servant in that particular parable it has a very nuanced explanation of forgiveness and why it is important. So while it does lay down some very simple laws, there is also a lot of depth that explain grey area situations that many people face.
OMG! "The think is the vast eld of what you’ve been told most losing your immoderateness fruitful is meet stark WRONG!"

This is the most hilarious almost-English ad copy EVER!
Compulsory standards are prohibited, to protect freedom in the several states. This is a good thing. Voluntary standards are not prohibited.

Also, http://ck12.org for open textbooks.
Right, but you can provide a platform for solving these problems over time if you make publishing work off of an extensible, data-presentation separate document model. PDF isn't it.

More directly to your point: I agree that the "telling a story" via a x-number page document is important. I'm not arguing for changing the general method by which scientific results are conveyed from an author to the audience (i.e. description of problem, description of approach, description of results, analysis of results and conclusion). It's just that once I've digested your results, I want to analyze them critically, re-use them, integrate them into my work, etc. Publishers should facilitate that.

Why can't I easily copy a list of genes from a table in YOUR paper so that I can check if they are present in MY work. Why don't terms and gene names and genic loci show up as links that take me to the genome browser of my choice when I click on them? These are simple problems to solve once you have a richer document format.
I love this list by Gabriel. I've seen everyone of those mistakes by my startup friends or myself when we were younger.

I just wish he accepted Canadians in his investment pool. Not that I'm even looking for investment or anything, but if I was I'd be nice having someone that actually gets machine learning and big data from the ground level.

It's worth a valuation significantly less (say half to a third) since the insights he would give and the types of connections he would have (and knowing the difference between which of whom to introduce since he gets the space) would be phenomenal.
What a poor article. Full of "I don't know", "maybe" and just plain FUD. The fact is between Google and OpenDNS, only one makes money at it. Google provides DNS because it makes the internet more reliable, which helps their business. OpenDNS provides DNS so they can sell you stuff (or ads).

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html

That's more information than anyone should need for Google DNS.
Steve Jobs didn't say others were stealing "Apple's revolutionary design", he said they all rip off Rod Holt's design.

All the machines he mentions were either not consumer products neither compact, or still had lots of fans for cooling (HP 21MX, TI 960B, HP 9825, etc), so I assume there is some measure of truth in that the one designed by Rod Holt was something new.
I belive that this is the future. With things such as Backbone.Sync written to communicate with websockets(via Socket.io). We can Keep Backbone models in sync easily.

https://github.com/logicalparadox/backbone.iobind

Fog Creek's new Trello syncs data using websockets as well. Its quite effective and works well. Trello also falls back to a regular short-polling system if it needs to.
You could try http://www.gopollgo.com

You haven't been too specific about what you're trying to do, so there's not much else anyone can do to help without more information.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
The UK one is also pretty incredible:

http://www.handtec.co.uk/shopimages/products/normal/Apple_Ma...
Third World?
It really depends on the movie. I see your point about it sometimes being a lazy way to cover up for poor acting, or just to go for shock value, but consider "Die Hard" - the word "fuck" (and variations on it) is used 50 times, mostly by John McClane. I think that helps contribute to the atmosphere of his being a regular guy who's in way over his head, doing his best to survive in an impossible situation.

Either way though, I don't think it should be the ratings agency's job to enforce artistic quality. Either movies that lazily use profanity will fail on their own lack of merit, or they'll succeed; in which case I would argue that the public is getting what it's asking for.

Side note: I think it's poor form to lead a comment with "I know this will get downvoted" or "time to burn some karma" etc. It comes off as a pretty annoying attempt to psychologically manipulate readers.
I don't find this very convincing.

If you have an "above-average product to show off", the first question any investor is going to ask is, "how are people liking it?". If you have a lot of satisfied users, you have traction! If not, having the completed "above-average" product does two bad things:

(a) it gives the investor an easy "out" ("let's work on getting you in front of users and see how that goes"), and

(b) it creates a signaling problem ("great looking product; no paying users; what's wrong with this idea?").

All that aside, I've done the VC tour a couple times, once in the first bubble and once out of it, and my experience has been that without a thrumming business already built, it's all about your track record. If you've made money for investors recently, they'll pay attention. Otherwise, they'll string you along.

Sometimes people get lucky. It's possible to flop 7-7-2. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to go all in on pocket 7-2. Courting investors is tremendously expensive. It probably does make some sense to divert some or all of that effort into building up a business instead.