Isaac Moore

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There’s work and there’s your life’s work.

The kind of work that has your fingerprints all over it. The kind of work that you’d never compromise on. That you’d sacrifice a weekend for. You can do that kind of work at Apple. People don’t come here to play it safe. They come here to swim in the deep end.

They want their work to add up to something.

Something big. Something that couldn’t happen anywhere else.

Welcome to Apple.

— Apple’s letter to new hirees

Tags: apple

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Getting told that “X is the best way to do it” is nice, but finding out the hard way that “Y really doesn’t work” will make you really understand why “X is the best way” and you’ll never forget it.

mRNAutomator

Today, we started to learn about DNA duplication, and mRNA and tRNA pairs, as well as the production of Amino Acids. I thought how this all worked systematically was fantastic, and it also made me realize that it could be easily scripted. So, here you go. mRNAutomator automatically returns the mRNA sequence, tRNA sequence, and Amino Acid pair for any given DNA sequence. You can get it here.

To use it, you’ll need to save ‘mRNAutomator.sh’ to your Desktop, and then follow these steps:

If you’re on a Mac, open Terminal. If you’re not, get a real computer.
Run this command:

cd ~/Desktop

3. Run this command:

chmod 755 *.sh

4. Run this command:

bash

5. Enter this, and press ‘Return’:

mRNAutomator.sh

6. Enter a DNA sequence, and enjoy!

Tags: bash projects science DNA

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If music be the food of love, play on.

— Shakespeare

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Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

— Alexander Pope

Apple thinks they still own your iPhone. Tell them they're wrong.

Apple likes to play games with their customers, namely by pretending that your iPhone belongs to them. They restrict your device, and control what you can and cannot do with it. To bypass these restrictions, a group of digital vigilantes produce what are called, ‘jailbreaks’, which allow you full access to your own device, bypassing Apple’s restrictions. Now, jailbreaks require exploits. And Apple likes to patch exploits, by extracting information about software crashes from your device, and sending them back up to Cupertino. These crash reports cause major problems for the progress of jailbreaks, because they allow Apple to find and eliminate any exploits in their code.

Now, I’m not going to get into a rant, but if you support the notion of getting what you paid for, the best thing you can do is to take five minutes and install this utility on your computer. It won’t bloat your system, or take your time, but it will stop Apple from propriatorizing a device that you paid for.

Please, just take five minute and do this.

Kelvin is awesome? Oh wait, it is.

I honestly never thought of units of measurement like this, but Kelvin does make much more logical sense. Why aren’t we using Kelvin?

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

— Mark Twain

Tags: mark twain wisdom

What is the future of user interaction?

This is brilliant. This is absolutely brilliant. It’s a whole new perspective on a topic I never even thought twice about. And all of you should read it, because it’s true. And this one person was genius enough to see that.

Tags: user interaction

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

— Hans Hoffman

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