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annominationon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

I knew this group when they were at UIUC. Their work is really great and approachable. the concept of basic version control was foreign to them, so there seemed to be a lot of room for improvement on the non-scientific side. It is great that they have started to fix those issues. Seriously consider this job is you are interesting in the mix between hardware and software.

annominationon A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity

just install XFCE and don't worry about it. as long as the apt repositories are stable, let them play with their GUI and you can go back worry about something more interesting.

annominationon Motivate yourself in 10 seconds

you are going to die. what other motivation do you need?

annominationon Nature journal subscription sale (from $10-50)

If you are wondering about the odd price structure, compare the price and the 2010 impact factor (from Wikipedia):

Nature $36, impact factor 36.1

Nature Biotechnology $31, impact factor 31.1

Nature Cell Biology $19, impact factor 19.4

Nature Chemical Biology $15, impact factor 15.8

Nature Chemistry $17, impact factor 17.9

and the list goes on! at least they round down...