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by HillRat 8y ago
The United terminal at EWR — ground zero for the “iPad at every seat” concept — basically feels like you’re trapped in a combination of a high-security video poker casino and the “Minority Report” retinal-scanning advertising scene, with th
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by HillRat 8y ago
The counterexample is Medicare and Medicaid, which (CMS particularly) are exhaustively transparent (to provider and patient alike) regarding what they cover, pricing schedules, etc. Having architected revenue cycle platforms, I can say th
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by HillRat 8y ago
As a bonus, developing-world tyrants usually have poor logistical and maintenance capabilities, so PMCs and defense contractors have the option of long-tail contracts for supply, maintenance, and upgrades as well, reducing the risk of regim
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by HillRat 8y ago
The era of low-hanging digitized fruit and dumb hot money may be over, but there will always be a market for innovation. What’s changing is that in complex, relatively slower, markets, what will be rewarded is the ability to transform exper
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by HillRat 8y ago
I’ve successfully used on-prem fn as a connection layer beneath API gateways and ESBs, but for cloud projects every time I use them (regardless of the provider), I end up swapping them out for microservices before too long. Deployment and m
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by HillRat 8y ago
As my father — a development economist — says, “We used to call it the ‘financial services industry.’ You can pinpoint when the US economy changed irrevocably when they dropped the pretence of serving and just became ‘finance.’”
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by HillRat 8y ago
The site and content redesign may be great, but I’m not sure I’d take this week to praise the VA’s technology transformation, since the department’s backoffice systems are now failing to properly calculate and disburse veterans’ benefits, w
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by HillRat 8y ago
Sure! “Lensing” is just analyzing the effects of a design decision from the viewpoint of each identified type/archetype/persona. You can do it informally through think-aloud protocols, or through more formal tools like interaction
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by HillRat 8y ago
I get where you’re coming from, but I’d argue that design requires both formal and embodied empathy — personas let you manage the complexity around a multiplicity of viewpoints, whereas embodied empathy (informed by ethnography) gives you t
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by HillRat 8y ago
Generally, using yourself as a user proxy for most applications will be worse than using personas, unless you’re part of the core user base. Doing user-focused research and road-testing prototyping against users is critical, but impractic
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by HillRat 9y ago
To be fair -- and I'm no blockchain booster -- transactional rollbacks should be modeled as separate operations and replacement transactions on an immutable log (or loggish thing, anyway). You can use bitemporal tracking to model inval
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by HillRat 9y ago
This is true -- I feel like the author has forgotten just how expensive it was to acquire hardware and software back in those days. You could easily blow half a million to a million on gear and licenses for a solution that today we would
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by HillRat 9y ago
Any society that can't draw a distinction between marketing and journalism probably doesn't have a long shelf life. In the past, news orgs could enforce a firewall between news and advertising, and advertisers generally respected
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by HillRat 9y ago
A rule I would consider would be that any decision should, all else being equal, maximize the degrees of freedom available to other persons relative to other exclusionary options. Obviously, this would require quite a bit of further discuss
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by HillRat 9y ago
Yeah, ACH is surprisingly not-unpleasant, at least relative to nightmares like X12 EDI with its implicit looping constructs and billions of companion guides that supercede random parts of the base spec.
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by HillRat 9y ago
The two species are complementary; hedgehogs have the knowledge and expertise necessary to develop fine-granularity models of their domains, whereas foxes find commonalities and connections between many coarse-grained models. Foxes rely on
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by HillRat 9y ago
Influencer demos skew highly female, so I can't say I'm surprised -- Snap isn't selling to the total market so much as trying to get traction through high-influence users. It's a strategy that requires time, patience, an
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by HillRat 9y ago
Specifically, the chargemaster rates for uncovered "off the street" procedures are essentially unmoored from the negotiated and mandated prices for the same procedures from payers. Quite a few "doc in the box" urgent car
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by HillRat 9y ago
Design, culture, and technology are deeply intertwined; society warps to fit its tools. As designers (remember, design thinking has antecedentally one foot in industrial design, one foot in programming functional requirements gathering), th
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by HillRat 9y ago
This is just the basic set of rules devised by Osborne (and later Adams) in the 1950s-'70s. There's a rich set of literature on facilitating co-creation workshops that builds on both practical experience and formal research, and m
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by HillRat 10y ago
Not illegal, but almost always a major violation of company protocol and a very good reason to get fired with prejudice. But Uber seems like the kind of corporate culture where that kind of thing is tolerated, if not basically encouraged.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Only in regards to political candidates, who must be given reasonable commercial access; otherwise, nets are free to refuse to sell ad space to other entities, including political groups (e.g., CBS v DNC).
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by HillRat 10y ago
And a Stickley couch running about 4x as much will be handed down to your great-grandchildren, for that matter. Quality costs more, but the price/performance ratio is much better.
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by HillRat 10y ago
Curbed is ... not the best experience I've had in ride-hailing. To be honest, it's easier and more convenient for me to have the office call a cab for those relatively few times when I'm in Austin. They may have ironed out so
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by HillRat 10y ago
Technically, it's approximately enough to accelerate one 15" MBP at one meter/second, with a bit left over to compensate for friction.
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by HillRat 10y ago
That's a lot of imponderables based on unknown technologies, regulations, and economics, though. Right now Uber doesn't have to worry about fleet cap- and opex, so the assumption is that buying and maintaining an autonomous vehi
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by HillRat 10y ago
Yeah, both of the big Midwestern HCM shops have that reputation, though one considerably more than the other (one also being a bit more forward-thinking with things like SMART on FHIR, so there are places you can still do interesting develo
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by HillRat 10y ago
But India's CO2 emissions are some 15x greater in terms of GDP. Assuming a straight-line consumption path, as India continues to grow economically its CO2 output will -- much as China's did -- start outpacing the US. (This has, in
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by HillRat 10y ago
Nicolas Bevacqua's JavaScript Application Design: A Build First Approach isn't a bad place to start -- Manning has a few books on SPA design and development that are well-suited for experienced developers who are new to modern w
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by HillRat 10y ago
Saatchi (edit: might have been Chiat Day as mentioned downthread) tried this back in the '90s, and I think gave it up as a bad idea pretty quickly thereafter. I know some studios that still do hotdesking and reconfigurable workpods, bu

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