eibhinn's comments

On: I'm done with coding

[eibhinn]

I once worked for a start-up that perpetuated inflated social status symbols in a way I found repugnant. Transitioning to an academic non-profit environment was the best career decision I could have made for my mental health. Less money, yes. Less stress and self-loathing, absolutely and entirely worth it for me.

[gunian → eibhinn]

i once worked for a startup that called me a monkey sadly that was the last time i did python

how did you switch if you don't mind me asking? if someone is very unsocial has no network is it doable

[eibhinn → gunian]

Sorry to say, I found the position via networking.

[gunian → eibhinn]

gatekeepers 100 lowly serf 0

On: Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?

[eibhinn]

Me too! Though yours looks fancier, is that jumping to a branch? lovely.

    glo () {
      xdg-open https://git.thecompany.com/$(git config remote.origin.url |cut -f2 -d: |cut -f1 -d.)
    }

On: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

[eibhinn]

Kinda/sorta. I use https://dynalist.io as my outliner. And it has browser clipper plugins that in their simplest use snapshot the title/url of the page you're on. So I often clip urls into there.

But it as a tool is much broader. I use it as my GTD inbox, and for task management, and other notes. The fact that I can simply search for pages that I've clipped (including adding #tags to them, or grouping them) is a lovely subset of what I use it for.

On: New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function

[eibhinn]

We have thousands of human genomes sequenced now.

[cvccvroomvroom → eibhinn]

Who is "we"? How many? How are the SNPs and larger differences in genes and unique genes placed into an ontology?

On: Those writing extensively on note-writing rarely have a serious context of use

[eibhinn]

Such an attractive trap.

On: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

[eibhinn]

Oracle -> IBM Cognos

A nightly rebuild using ETL scripts written in sql. Not cheap or glamorous, but solid for our needs.

On: Vim after 15 Years

[eibhinn]

Agreed. I run many plugins locally and love that workflow. Just means you need to keep all the basic vim commands in in your head too for remote work.