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My neighbor’s son is a doctor who needed some software written. He learned to write the software and now runs a software business (in addition to being a doctor
by LeonB 8y ago
My neighbor’s son is a doctor who needed some software written. He learned to write the software and now runs a software business (in addition to being a doctor). I guess it was easier than trying to bring developers in. Ive seen the same thing with a pilot who learned programming to write an incident management system for airlines. Only once the software was successful did he seek advice from ‘professionals’. Learning to code is not the deepest skill around.
- m0zg 8y ago>> Learning to code is not the deepest skill around. Neither is learning to fly a plane. What's prized is the ability to do it in such a way as to not crash. The same applies to software engineering.
- Novashi 8y agoHealthcare has lots of low-hanging fruit that's solved by simple CRUD apps, and those can be reasonably maintainable (and secure) if you build it using easy frameworks and well-known patterns that are commonly found in tutorials lying about the internet. It'll be so simple that it's equally maintainable. The real issue is adoption, but that's expedited if you're a doctor who's also a software developer and makes it easier to sell.
- sergiotapia 8y agoScott Adams calls this the "talent stack". https://blog.dilbert.com/2016/11/28/the-trump-talent-stack/ https://blog.dilbert.com/2016/11/28/the-trump-talent-stack/ Basically: individually these skills might not produce truly impressive results. Combined they produce great value. I have yet to figure out what my second "talent" in my talent stack could be. When I do figure it out I have a feeling things come much quicker.
- maxlybbert 8y agoCoding isn’t hard. Writing maintainable code is. And most people learn that only after they have to modify a large system they wrote themselves.
- LeonB 8y agoIn each of these cases the successful professional was able to pay people to maintain and improve the software after they’d proven the code enough to make it pay for itself many times over. That’s a real mark of “maintainable” and is outside the thinking of most programmers.
- shagie 8y agoOne of the things that worries me about the not quite professional developing software of this nature is does it actually follow the regulations and restrictions that medical software needs to follow. HIPAA is not an easy thing to navigate and has deep implications on how data itself is stored.