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I think that's worth a haiku:
oligonucleotides
that are all twisted
leave me limp wristed
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Quote: Unlike hard drives, Blu-Ray discs, or pretty much any current storage technology, DNA stays intact and readable for as long as 1,000 to 10,000 years.
What a bullshit! Scientist struggle hard when they try to sequence ancient DNA: it is fragmented into many small pieces. Instead of 23 chunks of DNA with an average length of some 100 million bp for the human genome, you'll have to cope with tens of millions of fragments of 50 bp...
That's long-term storage technology, yeah.
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: What a bullsh*t!
As long as it sounds credible to the guy that decides over funding.. 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It may seem obvious but Microsoft is planning to release the Anniversary update for Windows 10 in late July. Just in time for a summer vacation
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Elon Musk's company finally reveals the first details of its Mars architecture. "There they go, off to Mars, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future."
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Bradbury wrote: What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission has quietly stepped up its investigation into Android, over fears that Google is exploiting its position in the smartphone market. Remember when every government was after Microsoft? Yeah, good times.
Remember when Microsoft said they'd stop siccing governments after Google? Yeah, good times.
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Personally, I feel there should be some new regulations relating to protecting customer data, and ensuring that data is accessible to the customer, such that it can be transferred between vendors.
It is vendor lock-in that I hate passionately. Apple are probably the worst at this, but have a small market share so escape considerations as they are not a monopoly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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At Xamarin Evolve this morning, .NET Foundation Director Miguel de Icaza officially open sourced the Xamarin SDKs for Android, iOS, and Mac and contributed them to the .NET Foundation under the MIT license. Developers, developers, etc?
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Researchers have fired a wireless signal through slabs of pork and beef at speeds fast enough to transmit high-definition video. "This work was supported in part by the department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, under grants ONR MURI N00014-07-1-0738 and ONR N00014-07-1-0311."
Not sure if they also used a proxy to watch the US-only content.
Also not sure if watching House of Cards through pork is kosher.
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I may have to change my concept of pork barrel spending. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Gives a new meaning to the phrase "Where's the Beef?"tm
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I wonder if it cooks the meat while watching a movie?
Slices, dices....
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Finally I'll be able to get high def on the dark side of the pig.
Thanks Powdered Toast Man!
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Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet -- after Pluto -- in the Kuiper Belt. NeatNeat
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Makemake? Really?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I can't believe you missed the opportunity for a "That's no moon" comment. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In the world of Silicon Valley, there are few books held in higher esteem than "The Art of Computer Programming," a multivolume set by Stanford professor emeritus Donald Knuth. I think that list is limited to Knuth and his editor
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that book is like computer encyclopedia because it have lot of volume. One book can kill me 
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A new email from Microsoft's Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, firmly states that the company is devoted to Windows 10 on mobile for 'many years' and that they are currently working on next generation products. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
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Anytime an exec makes a statement that they are firmly committed to something, it means they want the opportunity to unload their stock before they announce they are canning the product.
Marc
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Did I ever tell you... the definition... of insanity?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
That statement is widely requoted , but actually pretty meaningless. And often incorrectly attributed to Einstein - not entirely sure why, he was a great physicist but not really greatly qualified as a psychologist/psychiatrist.
There are many, many forms of insanity, almost all of which do not match this quote.
I suspect it was originally authored by a politician seeking to invest less in mental health care, as so few people would qualify as insane.
Also, when rolling dice, it would pretty insane to keep expecting the same result.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As programmers, we need a way to judge the quality of the programs we build if we have any hope of becoming better programmers. One that increases my bank balance?
Who's a good program? You're a good program. Yes, you are... yes you are. Good program!
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If an inherited program wants to be a good program to me, it needs to do the following:
* Have clean and easy to read code; as if the developer cared about how it looked and how it was going to have a long life.
* Documentation, especially if it has deployment instructions and scripts!
* Not cause me to have to fix something every other day.
* I don't have to be a SME to understand what the code is supposed to do.
* And most importantly, leave me alone when I get home from work.
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