Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the EU was all “no, no extension, goodbye” and Britain just tumbled out of the EU without a deal right now?
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They would have made bad predictions, based on which they would have taken actions that were well-intentioned but harmful in the long run.
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Great point. What differences of “goodness” can we detect in the societies that practiced ancestor worship?
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It was winter 2014. Pharrell had just dropped Happy, the Rosetta probe landed on a comet, President Obama was opening diplomatic relations with Cuba…
…and here at Color, the bioinformatics team had a problem. Our pipeline — the data processing system that crunches raw DNA data from our lab into the variants we report to patients — was slow. 12 to 24 hours slow.
This wasn’t a problem in and of itself — bioinformatics pipelines routinely run for hours or even days — but it was a royal pain for development. We’d write new pipeline code, start it running, go home, and return the next morning to find it had crashed halfway through because we’d missed a semicolon. Argh. Or worse, since we hadn’t launched yet, our live pipeline would hit similar bugs in production R&D samples, which would delay them until we could debug, test, and deploy the fix. No good. Continue reading
10,000 Year Clock, Long Now
⏲️ Bioinformatics pipelines can take days, but software engineering edit/compile/test loops should happen in minutes or seconds. Here’s how we moved from twiddling our thumbs to iterating in real time:
blog.color.com/engineering-bi…
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Help me keep home.mcom.com online. Dear Lazyweb, tell me who inside of Oath / Verizon has the ability to edit the DNS records of the “mcom.com” domain. Or, preferably, just transfer the domain to me. Longer version: For eleven… jwz.org/b/yjLK
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