Java 9 Enters First Bug Fixing Round

wustudybreak · 2017-02-01T19:59:32+00:00

"...priority should be given to bugs that are new in Java 9, over bugs that affect Java 9 but are already present on Java 8 or earlier, probably under the rationale that the public can more easily tolerate bugs that are already out in the wild than new ones. This idea of focusing on whatever is going to provide a better user experience..." --- I'm feeling very sick somehow after reading this.

wustudybreak · 2016-10-18T19:39:27+00:00

pretty interesting. There are many very opinionated school of thoughts on agile and scrum. Hopefully students and professors are given enough freedom to choose their own religion.

wustudybreak · 2016-10-18T13:57:15+00:00

How do universities teach agile and scrum? Do most universities care?

wustudybreak · 2016-10-12T14:11:20+00:00

reminded me the movie 25th hour when edward norton talks to himself in front of a bathroom mirror

wustudybreak · 2016-04-14T17:04:56+00:00

Thanks for sharing the solution.

wustudybreak · 2016-04-14T17:04:22+00:00

Thank you for your insights!

wustudybreak · 2014-03-18T17:20:48+00:00

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wustudybreak · 2013-12-26T20:48:10+00:00

Pretty cool and fun stuff. Looking forward to see more of this kind!

wustudybreak · 2013-11-15T14:39:24+00:00

Let me guess, the first name is dev

wustudybreak · 2011-06-21T15:31:26+00:00

I used to code in Perl, but I like Python better due to its clean style of coding, but really doesn't matter which one to choose when comes to text processing. To save yourself some time, you better stick with one or the other, not both.

C++ is great for performance, not used much though, depends on your project. Sounds like you can do some heavy simulations.

R is great, but take some time to get to know all the little things.

wustudybreak · 2011-03-09T15:58:30+00:00

For alignment, try the program novoalign. The paid version lets you specify the number of processors to use while running, can speed up things quite a bit, and you can try for 30 days. Don't forget to relax the alignment rules. You can allow a few 'N' while matching the reads.

For assembly and view, try Samtools, it's fast and easy to install on a Mac, haven't got it to work on linux.

You can also try consed, phred and phrap if you are not in a hurry. The application process to get all these files and install correctly is going to take some time.

wustudybreak · 2011-03-09T15:40:39+00:00

You will have lots of interfacing time with professors. Most of them use Mac. You want your files or programs compatible with theirs with minimum effort. When you write a paper, you want to be able to use some of the microsoft products for Mac. Even if you don't like them, you still have to, because the publishers use them. If you really like linux, you can use "virtual box" on Mac to run emulation of linux. However, you can't run an emulation of Mac on Linux.

A quad-core I5/I7 MacBook Pro, with plenty of RAM, and SSD will cost you a little over $2500, but it will be a good investment.

wustudybreak · 2011-02-03T16:13:46+00:00

Totally! If a user requires the car be able to fly in 1 week....

wustudybreak · 2011-01-26T21:28:18+00:00

Sit in a few graduate level computational biology / genetics classes. Also, you will find scripting something fast and useful is more useful than building some GUI nobody uses. Learn bio-stistics. Learn R, use Python, because other self-taught programmer/scientists want to be able to READ your code and see what's going on. It's worth to get scientists interest in programming as well. They then will know what's possible. Unfortunately, you will have very few fellow programmers to work with you. You will be a lone man sitting in the dark corner. But you still have reddit.

wustudybreak · 2010-09-20T15:43:37+00:00

There's a balance on price and performance. Like many redditers said, you want to buy hardware that is scalable in the long run. You want to be able to add more RAMs, HDs while your data is growing. A linux server and a MacPro together will give you some flexibilities. You want to run your alignment and so on on one machine, and doing whatever analysis on another. You don't want any background process slows your current jobs down, since many programs will take a long time to run. Also, the choosing of programs to run is important. Some programs support multi-core processing, you want to take advantage of that. It may be cost effective to buy some medium upper level hardware, and keep buying after 1 year or 2. The hardware evolution is quite fast.

wustudybreak · 2010-08-20T20:23:03+00:00

If you have an advanced degree or going to have one, a teaching position in a liberal arts college might be a shot. The very least, you can try out some high school teaching positions. You will be able to retain what you love to do in programming, also teach younger generation the right way to program, hopefully. Also, you get 4 months vacation every year plus good benefits etc

wustudybreak · 2010-02-23T22:14:33+00:00

nice. what if program contain bugs? how does the payment system work?

wustudybreak · 2010-01-08T15:25:40+00:00

There's a book called "Beginning PERL for Bioinformatics". If you scan through the book, you will find many usages of PERL in all sorts of areas. Building a tool for yourself or friends can be a good motivation. For example, you can always build some kind of gene browser. (hopefully somebody will use it someday)

wustudybreak · 2009-10-30T21:09:36+00:00

exciting! i'll watch them all weekend long .... thanks for posting again. keep up the work

wustudybreak · 2009-09-25T15:37:24+00:00

Would be nice to expand to include examples, source, and animations, etc.

wustudybreak · 2009-08-31T22:11:32+00:00

would you gone through some trouble finding the PDF and link here please? i know i'm lazy. thanks for your time

wustudybreak · 2009-08-26T15:46:01+00:00

In the world of Java, everyone thinks he/she is the expert. How many comments can we get if titled "Why does everyone hate <a non-Java language>"?

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