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The first tweet doesn't fit into the title bar. It says "Can you believe that we employ someone to print out data from one database and then type it into anoth
by DanBC 6y ago
The first tweet doesn't fit into the title bar. It says
"Can you believe that we employ someone to print out data from one database and then type it into another database?"
And the twitter thread is full of people (mostly in healthcare) who are not in anyway surprised this happens, or who think this is not as complex as some solutions could be.
I'm submitting it because lots of people on HN want to find ideas to work on, and this kind of interoperability is one idea that could be worked on.
Awk is amazing, but they're not going to use awk.
- bmn__ 6y ago> they're not going to use awk Or `dir`. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Indexer https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Indexer
- netsharc 6y agoDamn... the cleverer Gustavo would use that trick and spend the rest of his week playing Solitaire or browsing HN...
- goto11 6y ago> this kind of interoperability is one idea that could be worked on. Definitely, but the challenges are probably not technical.
- thehoff 6y agoThis! I work at a place where some people do not want this type of "magic" to happen. They don't trust numbers if they don't key them in themselves (realistically a thin veil for job security).