Top19

30 ms·

241.
by Top19 9y ago
A good example of the ROI of Open Source is the OpenEMR project. That free system replaces multi-hundred thousand dollar hospital systems from companies like Cerner. I used to work at Oracle, and when I found out about OpenEMR I remember th
242.
by Top19 9y ago
I read Tim Weiner's book 10 years ago...it was great. Am currently reading his book on the FBI. To my delight Audible managed to get the same narrator. At the time I was pretty shocked how bad it was at the COA, but then I realized...t
243.
by Top19 9y ago
This is a terrific article that puts all of the benefits of living today in perspective. The frustrating thing about many economic statistics, and this is talked about at length in "The Second Machine Age", is that they include ve
244.
by Top19 9y ago
I really appreciate you pointing this out. The media can change though. A good example of this is how the CDC advised news organizations to cover suicide. It was determined in the 70s that suicide spiked following news coverage of famous in
245.
by Top19 9y ago
In regards to AirBnB, there were a lot of concerns that people were simply not renting out to certain races. Stuff like a black male tries to rent for a certain date, gets denied, and then an hour later a white female tries to rent it for t
246.
by Top19 9y ago
Actually a PM I reached out to a couple of months ago did get back to me. I was disappointed at first because I heard nothing from Google Next could be uploaded online. But Google did come through and they posted the images here: https:&#x
247.
by Top19 9y ago
I can't say whether you're right or not, but your comment caused me to laugh out loudly enough that people at Starbucks looked over at me. Thank you.
248.
by Top19 9y ago
For everyone using OneNote I'd like to make the comment that there are actually 2 versions of OneNote that Microsoft makes. There is "OneNote" and "OneNote 2016". Windows has both versions while your phone and Mac h
249.
by Top19 9y ago
Initially, your point was "grinding my gears" lol. My reasoning was "'x is good". You took that (and this next part could be wrong so please accept my apology if it is but I tried to break it down into concrete math
250.
by Top19 9y ago
And to answer OP's original question... Right to Birth Control: we're never going to agree on abortion but can we at least get this? A long time ago women would usually stop getting their periods after 20...because they were const
251.
by Top19 9y ago
You make a good point actually. It made me think and I'd even take it a step further and say most of the places the US (military) is involved in are not great like Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Uganda, Haiti, etc. which is interesting beca
252.
by Top19 9y ago
I asked this question on reddit a few days ago! My basis was I wanted something like Charles Petzold's "Code" from 1995 which is the BEST way to understand computers. The recommended book by far was..."Mathematics: From
253.
by Top19 9y ago
I can't answer this question, but just to put it in context, the United Nation'a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, put together after World War II, is a truly beautiful document. I had never read it or really knew anything ab
254.
by Top19 9y ago
To my discredit I enjoyed dumping on Google earlier today with the Firebase support issue article. That being said this was a great response and I appreciate it. Also my first React Native app used Firebase and I have fond memories of setti
255.
by Top19 9y ago
Came to this thread wondering if the Firebase issue from earlier was going to spill over, but yes also hoping for some cool stuff as well and keep refreshing Twitter :)
256.
by Top19 9y ago
Hah just seeing this now. Sorry Mr. Russell!
257.
by Top19 9y ago
"not very kind to take cheap shots at them" But man this is business, this is the stuff the global economy runs on 24/7, I hope you all are tougher than that...
258.
by Top19 9y ago
I hired a freelancer from the Philippines on Upwork to work with me on some Google App Engine issues because Google's documentation is incredibly unhelpful at times and as well as bizarrely organized. He was from the Philippines, and i
259.
by Top19 9y ago
Found the Google employee. For many reasons, Hacker News is FILLED TO THE BRIM with Google employees. I know this because anytime an article comes on here about Google Cloud that thread is immediately taken over by employees (many of whom t
260.
by Top19 9y ago
I remember reading something once along the lines of "knowledge is just the opinions of those in power".
261.
by Top19 9y ago
This is true. For some reason at my company, if you want to do an internal transfer, for the transfer to go through, manager has to post it to job board, and then you apply like a regular person, and then it goes through. This takes a few d
262.
by Top19 10y ago
This I think is a very a good point. The scariest point about Lazlo Block's book is that he is very against the idea that people can improve or be trained better. To him there is this idea of predestination. You're either always g