"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."[1] These coding challenges used to be a very good measure of ability, but now applicants are just memorizing the most common problems for each company.…
That's nothing. One of the largest banks in North America (BMO), limited passwords to 6 characters. Worse, for compatibility with telephone banking the characters were mapped to digits. That means there were only…
Well, Apple has Braeburn Capital but they're probably much more risk-averse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
Yes, most have a low-temperature cycle and the rest can often be configured to include the option.
I don't buy it. A crisis that causes the world's countries to isolate themselves from each other does not stimulate cooperation. In fact I'd argue the opposite - it highlights the downsides of a cooperative world with…
This article is a bit - or maybe a lot - callous, but it makes some good points. Shutting down the economy is not free of human costs. People will lose their livelihoods and some will lose their lives to the coming…
It's worth nothing that this machine is very low throughput - the larger one only takes 4 samples and you have to use their proprietary disposable cartridges. edit: as pointed out below - the largest of the machines has…
It's mostly a commercial decision. Reagents have very high margins and recurring revenue is more attractive than large one-time purchases. Illumina does this with genetic sequencing as well. edit: There are some…
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."[1] These coding challenges used to be a very good measure of ability, but now applicants are just memorizing the most common problems for each company.…
That's nothing. One of the largest banks in North America (BMO), limited passwords to 6 characters. Worse, for compatibility with telephone banking the characters were mapped to digits. That means there were only…
Well, Apple has Braeburn Capital but they're probably much more risk-averse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
Yes, most have a low-temperature cycle and the rest can often be configured to include the option.
I don't buy it. A crisis that causes the world's countries to isolate themselves from each other does not stimulate cooperation. In fact I'd argue the opposite - it highlights the downsides of a cooperative world with…
This article is a bit - or maybe a lot - callous, but it makes some good points. Shutting down the economy is not free of human costs. People will lose their livelihoods and some will lose their lives to the coming…
It's worth nothing that this machine is very low throughput - the larger one only takes 4 samples and you have to use their proprietary disposable cartridges. edit: as pointed out below - the largest of the machines has…
It's mostly a commercial decision. Reagents have very high margins and recurring revenue is more attractive than large one-time purchases. Illumina does this with genetic sequencing as well. edit: There are some…