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All the slow internet influences my exploration of all the cough educational content . . . like reddit and stuff

Rui F Ribeiro

You have got a problem with DSL, if you are more than 2km way from a loop you will never ever get good quality no matter what the BS they feed you. A big problem in rural areas.

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Off to bed

To all good night

Good night, sleep well

Rui F Ribeiro

12:04 AM

thanks!

@Fabby Not at all. I say that because I currently work in a bioinformatics company and I'm the only one apart from the CEO/founder who has a background in biology.

And because I did my PhD sitting next to computer scientists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, even an aeronautical engineer.

About half the chemists I studied with ended up in IT.

Hell, even the founder's a computer scientist. He just decided to change everything and get a PhD in bioinformatics in his mid forties.

@Fabby Where were you 10 years ago to tell me this ?

Wow!

12:10 AM

Yeah. That took courage.

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy For my first job, I had to know BASIC.

I didn't know any BASIC, so the GM gave me the manual from the lead programmer while he was on holiday.

After my interview, I handed him his book back.

He then said: Are you the guy wou didn't know any BASIC 2 weeks ago?

uhuh...

Hired!

That's how I landed my second job

:D

It was much easier when I was a kid.

And now we have to have 10 years of experience in a language that only existed for 3 years to even be considered for an interview :)

Urgh... Yes! I've run into those job ads too.

Damn! I was going to contact the Unix Manager for you!

Man, I've worked 60+ hours this week and Sunday I have a DR Test!

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Remind me again Tuesday!

I'm just a wreck now: not even trying to answer any questions...

12:16 AM

No rush - priorities first. Meanwhile I've submitted like 40+ other applications and interviewing with one company, so anything helps

I've also updated resume to version 5, now with more <strike>BS</strike> polished content

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy seriously, start looking at bioinformatics jobs. Your knowledge of scripting and regex/text parsing will be appreciated.

@terdon Just search "bioinformatics" ? Are there any specific search terms ?

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don't really know, to be honest. Python, probably. And perl.

The search euuu jobs in Denver, CO did not match any jobs

stackoverflow.com/jobs?q=bioinformatics

12:20 AM

0 results on SO jobs for 'bioinformatics' in my area

I'll try other sites as well

Have a look at this: stackoverflow.com/jobs/228249/…

It's in NY, so not your area I think, but that's the sort of thing I was thinking of. While you might not have all the skills they are looking for, note how you do have most. And biological knowledge isn't one of them.

I'm just saying this is a field that is rapidly expanding, has a lot of money and is actually quite close to stuff I know you know about.

So you may as well keep your eyes open in case you find something there. Just don't assume "bioinformatics" means you can't do it.

Page not found, when clicking apply link anyway

Honestly, I probably should have expanded my search long ago. I haven't even considered bioinformatics and data science until now

The good thing about knowing your way around scripting languages and coreutils and the like is that these are the basic tools. You can then apply these tools to all sorts of different fields.

Well, now I feel stupid . . . I was circling around same search terms, when I should have expanded that

Q: History expansion in scripts

2:21 AM

@terdon Quick question out of curiosity: is there any um . . . Hello World tutorial on what FASTA actually is / RFC / standard which says how FASTA files are supposed to look like ? I mean, I know it's DNA/RNA sequences

Jeff Schaller

2:48 AM

$DIETY help me, I think I've used my gold-hammer correctly for the first time

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I have the following Bash script case $- in (*H*) echo enabled ;; (*) echo disabled ;; esac set -H case $- in (*H*) echo enabled ;; (*) echo disabled ;; esac pwd last_command="!!" echo $last_command which prints disabled enabled /home/user !! The first line of code checks to see if history ...