Random Linkage 2008-Jan-11 AM
Friday, January 11th, 2008- A programmer’s explanation of human DNA (via Neatorama)
As with unix, great problems arise when cells keep on forking. They quickly exhaust resources, sometimes leading to death. This is called a tumor. The cell is riddled with ‘ulimits’ and ‘watchdogs’ to prevent this sort of thing from happening. The number of divisions is limited by Telomere shortening, for example.
- Call of the day - this guy has a great writing style, making occasional updates revealing the headache of being in tech support. He also does awesome “If game boxes told the truth” periodic posts