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JosephBrown

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About JosephBrown

I'm Joseph Robert Brown, and I am a beginning web developer changing careers from biology research.

Joseph@JosephBrown.me

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    The ability to quickly turn off the phone is useful when you need to activate a long password so that you cannot be forced to use your fingerprint to unlock it.

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    Comment #9961748

    "Challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest" How do you do this when secret courts can keep you silenced?

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    Comment #8997280

    Can you provide some references? I've been prescribed T and get it via a compounding pharmacy in liposome cream form, so now I'm curious if it's actually worth it.

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    Comment #7667484

    Now can we figure out a way to split expenses like cable (some may not want it), lawn services (how frequent), etc?

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    Comment #7456470

    I've been using Abine's DoNotTrackMe for a while. Is this any different/better?

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    Comment #7433124

    This is my favorite feature that Udacity has and the others don't.

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    Comment #7355463

    The color of each gang is quite important.

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    Comment #7147583

    "Google will retain the vast majority of Motorola’s patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem." http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to…

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    Comment #6797559

    - I like your icon. - Maybe change the tint color of your app to match the orange from the icon and screenshot backgrounds. - I would get rid of the status bar in the first screens…

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    Comment #6797491

    You are a VERY good science writer btw.

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    Comment #6775159

    The comments are in a monospaced font for some reason.

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    Comment #6691758

    Unless you consider getting to go home after 8 hours the reward.

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    Comment #6028460

    So they're both designers, but they use periods instead of spaces?

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    Comment #5941772

    Why shouldn't the regulations that apply to one group of people who charge money to drive others around on public roads not apply to every group of people who charge to drive peopl…

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    "Flat UI was super hot months before Apple has used it and that’s rarely happened before." One problem is Apple's yearly release schedule. This allows other companies to innovate w…

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    Comment #5914602

    "The web isn't inherently about words, pictures, music or videos - It's about connectivity." Well said.

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    Comment #5905464

    Here's a TED Talk from Bonnie Bassler about quorum sensing in bacteria: http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_comm...

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    Comment #5894156

    I'm not necessarily pro or anti sharing, but calling piracy "the good deed of sharing culture and knowledge" is a good way for me to never take you seriously.

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    Comment #5874580

    But the information in the cDNA already exists in the mRNA. The justices seemed to argue that removing the introns was the step that makes cDNA patentable, but the introns are alre…

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    Comment #5874547

    An mRNA strand that is about to be translated into a protein has the introns removed, so how is the cDNA different enough from the naturally occurring mRNA other than it is a mirro…