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That's true for pretty much everything :) - Deepak Singh

I actually think it is fairly easy to argue against many of the points. - Lars Juhl Jensen

1: Make submission difficult. A: No matter how easy you make your submission interface, it will always be easier not to submit. Consequently, you either have to get journals to enforce that authors submit their data to your database, or you will have to hunt down most of the data sets and add them to your database yourself. In either case, the ease of your submission interface will have hardly any influence on whether data gets into your database or not. - Lars Juhl Jensen

2: Have a support service that is available 9-5 Mon to Fri. A: Most biological databases are developed and maintained through research grants. Considering the lack of infrastructure funding for development and maintenance, I would not even begin to expect that there is money for a support service. - Lars Juhl Jensen

5: Totally trust your automated systems. A: Did I hear anyone offer funding for me to hire an army of curators? No, I didn't think so. I'm particularly surprised to hear someone who supposedly works on "big data" ask for manual curation. If you really have big data, manual curation becomes unaffordable. - Lars Juhl Jensen

I definitely don't agree with #5. I think the bigger problem is the one I often rail about. Our funding model does not work for infra projects (this is something I've been having a lot of discussions with people about cause the funding agencies know that) - Deepak Singh

8: Include a 44-page getting started guide. A: I consider myself very lucky if a database has a getting started guide ... or any kind of manual for that sake. - Lars Juhl Jensen

Drop me an IM in Second Life if you'd like a copy - my avatar name is Eightball Magic - Lars Juhl Jensen

It works like Magic too - Peter Miller

Thanks, Pierre. Been working hard to make the jump between experimental biology & bioinformatics - Attila Csordas from iPhone

Congrats! Sounds like a great opportunity. - Heather Piwowar

congrats! - imabonehead

Congrats! Great news: welcome to the Silicon Fen. - Matt Wood

congrats, Attila! What will you be working on? - Mr. Gunn

Congrats Attila !! - Khader Shameer

Thanks, appreciate the support, it's definitely a proteomics job, exciting horizon - Attila Csordas from iPhone

Congratulations! Where will you be based? - Berci Mesko, MD

Congratulations!! - Yann Abraham

congrats :) - Pedro Beltrao

Congratulations! - Ruchira S. Datta

Woot - glad to see that the mass take over of EBI continues apace... - Cameron Neylon

How so take over? Is there anything you do not like about the EBI that requires take over? - Egon Willighagen

No, no. Just that we seem to be gradually getting people we know into positions there. Duncan, Nico, now Attila...not so much a takeover as an _enhancement_ - Cameron Neylon from twhirl

Congrats - Abhishek Tiwari

Thank you all! (Berci: EBI is @ the Genome Campus in Hinxton, we'll be based in Cambridge) Looking forward to meet all the Cambridge/Sanger/EBI people there - Attila Csordas

Congratulations! - Kubke

Congrats Attila :) - John Cumbers

Great! Congratulations! - Konrad Förstner

And of course my congratulations too, Attila.....looking forward to meeting you in person (finally)... - Nico Adams

thanks again to everyone, accepted the offer today with an April start date. - Attila Csordas

Congrats Attila! Read this on my handheld and thought you said the "FBI" instead. Does this mean the next BioBarCamp will be in the UK? - Jim Hardy

Nice, congrats! - Sung W. Lim

HI/congrats!--I think my friend John Tate works there...if so tell him I said hi! - Mary Canady

There was a camera but I don't know whether it is available online or not. Will try to remember to check. - Cameron Neylon from Android

Thanks :) ! - Khader Shameer

Fantastic. Would love to hear the audio if it exists. Particularly enjoyed the slide "Average capacity of Human Scientist" - Carl Boettiger

Love "Average capacity of Human Scientist", and "The human scientist Does. Not. Scale." made me laugh ! - joergkurtwegner

Brilliant, Cameron. - Bill Hooker

Nice quote, slide 100 - Matthew Todd

Unfortunately, I don't think there was any video :( - Deepak Singh

<funny> - Graham Steel

I recognise a lot of those slides! :) - Roger Pettett from twhirl

and, i might add, many of those sequencing figures were from ~18 months ago - Roger Pettett from twhirl

:-) yep but the big ones I only know "offline", so not sure I can put them on a slide - Deepak Singh

Happy Birthday Paul! - AJ Batac :)

Today is actually just my internet birthday. - Paul Buchheit

Well, thanks :) But for a verbose API I'll stick with YUI :P Have to inspect the power of templating and compiler, though. - Claudio Cicali

I wonder what happens when you apply it recursively -- can you get down to 1 byte of code that takes no time to execute? ;=) - Brian Sullivan

Finally! This is great. - Tudor Bosman

Happy Birthday! - Robert Scoble

Nice! - Micah

Unfortunately it looks like the internationalization features may be missing. I wonder why those were removed? (or if I'm just not seeing it) - Paul Buchheit

Paul you are my best-friend :`( - deerstep

if you were starting a new site today, would you use this over jquery (which friendfeed uses)? - Karl Rosaen

Karl, jquery is a library, this is a compiler. I would use them both. - Paul Buchheit

well, i mean closure library :) but yeah, they could be used together - Karl Rosaen

ah, i see this is a link closure compiler, not the broader closure tools. - Karl Rosaen

Refactoring, JS style. - Gabe

Now, this is a good news - Özkan Altuner

@Paul the Closure project has three components: compiler, library, and template language. Looks like the Closure/library might be competing with jQuery. - Shakeel Mahate

this is sweet! - Jay

I think jQuery does a lot of stuff that might confuse the compiler, e.g. iterating over an array of string function names and creating new function wrappers (look at the way the parent/child/next/prev/etc functions get installed) The Closure library is also full of type annotations that help the compiler make better optimization choices, so you're likely to get a better compiled outcome using Closure than jQuery + fixes + compiler - Ray Cromwell

@paul -- I know you've been wanting this opensourced for a long time. sorry it took such a long time. Nick Santos and the jscompiler team has finally done it! Cheers! - Jing Lim

Happy Birthday - Ashish

Many happy returns!! - Count Caturday

Happy Birthday, Paul! - Andrew Terry

Happy Birthday Paul - Sandeep Kalidindi

Happy B'day Paul! don't be evil :) - sirishkumar

Congratulations to the team (and @Paul & Jing) -- I know everyone's been waiting a long time for this. For anyone considering whether to use jQuery vs Closure, consider that they're meant for largely different purposes. jQuery's good for enhancing static web pages; Closure's much better at building large apps. And as Ray points out above, Closure the library is going to get much better results from Closure the compiler than an arbitrary js library would, because of all the type annotations. - Joel Webber

Paul Buchheit has been at the top of my best of pages all month. Rock on, Paul. - Donald C. Lindsay

Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL !!! Cool present!! <insert CAKE> :D - Susan Beebe

Paul, any comment on this write up? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs... - Sachin Sebastian

That writeup is trolling for traffic IMHO. Nit picking 50 lines out of 200+ thousand (written for readability, which get compiled and optimized), providing no benchmarks for claims, and spending half the time bashing Java, it just seems to be struggling to find something wrong with Closure. - Ray Cromwell

Sachin: he seems to be commenting on Closure the JS library, not Closure the JS compiler (that Paul's post was about). And he may be a douchebag, but I haven't seen anything I disagree with. - Gabe

@Sachin: I hate to be too harsh, but that post is pretty much garbage. From what I can tell he's pretty much managed to enumerate some of the worst things about Javascript -- nitpicking the code for referencing "undefined" directly without declaring it as an uninitialized local? That's insane. Following this advice is mostly a recipe for an unreadable mess. Also, look in the comments for several refutations of the idea that some of these are even optimizations. - Joel Webber

great! - Abhishek Tiwari

Brilliant. - Bill Hooker

SuezanneC - What's one more reason to have a PC? - Joel

Using it for the last hour - really enjoy the ultrasmooth scrolling. www.flickriver.com scrolls like butter. BUT when trying to post this comment, it failed. Converted back to FF to post this. - Mark Interrante