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by ashearer 10y ago
This assumes that the HSR would operate at full theoretical capacity, which wouldn't be true of all potential lines. If a locality is deciding between HSR and Hyperloop, it would be better to compare costs based on projected passenger
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by ashearer 10y ago
We're addressing this problem at Care Thread ( http://www.carethread.com ), where we integrate patient-centered messaging and EMR data to ensure that everyone stays in the loop. Existing electronic medical records systems are
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by ashearer 10y ago
A major aspect is miscommunication. According to the Joint Commission: "Ineffective hand-off communication is recognized as a critical patient safety problem in health care; in fact, an estimated 80% of serious medical errors involve m
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by ashearer 10y ago
There's a crucial distinction to be made. Ignoring unknown properties is a defined part of the CSS spec, so implementing it that way is just being correct. Postel's Law leads to trouble when "being liberal" means unilate
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by ashearer 10y ago
Adding to your list: "they released the newest OS for my old iPhone for free in order to slow it down and make me buy a new iPhone". It's not limited to Apple, but the pattern is the same: it goes immediately from conjecture
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by ashearer 11y ago
Well-thought-out fork that proves optionals can work in Go's language model, with clear benefits for runtime safety. Congratulations to the author!
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by ashearer 11y ago
I took it to mean that with Node, some functions have a traditional return value, like functions in most common languages. But if there's even the possibility that they may indirectly invoke an async function, they need to have a diffe
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by ashearer 11y ago
(Warning: also not a lawyer.) Despite the framing as a "one-off tool" instead of a mass-market "product", iOS itself is definitely an Apple product, and the FBI is requesting a custom version of it. Apple then has to sig
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by ashearer 11y ago
I think it's important to separate its positive effects on the community from the merits of its UI. To me, SourceForge epitomized the "it's complicated for us, so it should be complicated for you" school of UI design. Th
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by ashearer 11y ago
"Anti-pattern" sounds close enough, as shorthand, when "bug" might cause readers to file the article incorrectly. The author is warning others that a normally-unremarkable JavaScript idiom causes suboptimal performance i
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by ashearer 11y ago
Go and Python deployment aren't quite that equivalent. I've seen build and deployment problems over multiple years with widely-used Python libraries including Python-MySQLdb and Python Imaging Library (PIL). The Go equivalents for
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by ashearer 11y ago
I see parallels to PHP initially taking off for web development instead of Python via mod_python. Paradoxically, it was so much fun to build your own web framework in Python that everyone did, so none got enough traction. By the time Django
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by ashearer 11y ago
I prefer ES6/ES2015 (currently via Babel, and considering TypeScript). The let keyword and arrow functions in particular make it a much more pleasant language to work with than plain JS. It's now competitive with CoffeeScript, but
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by ashearer 11y ago
I agree with the approach indicated by the title ("caution required"), but the tone of the article veers toward being alarmist. Takedown articles tend to share similar characteristics. Many are on a mission that emphasizes the neg
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by ashearer 11y ago
Possible reason: to distinguish the list from an "or" list.
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by ashearer 11y ago
Reading the standard library is a huge help in learning to write Go well. It's a high-quality compendium of best practices.
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by ashearer 11y ago
Both hypotheses in this case are plausible. Beyond that, it would be great to have the tools to numerically calculate a psychological phenomenon such as the placebo effect the way a physicist calculates the energy of a particle. But we&#x27
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by ashearer 11y ago
The discussion is about how to test the placebo effect (which corresponds to your example's "theory A"), so the proposed alternative to RCT would have to include the process of first deducing the effect size. For this problem
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by ashearer 11y ago
Say theory A (the placebo effect theory) predicts a 25% improvement, because it's been measured in the past with that result. Then there's also theory B (the get-better-anyway theory, or null hypothesis), which wasn't measure
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by ashearer 11y ago
How does that address the get-better-anyway effect, without a group to measure it?
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by ashearer 11y ago
I meant the original 1955 publication of “The Powerful Placebo” that put the idea of the “placebo effect” into the public consciousness. (Use of the term really takes off starting then [1].) That article's more recent (2010) link suppo
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by ashearer 11y ago
So the research that established the placebo effect—an effect that’s well-known, and widely regarded as an illustration of the importance of control groups in research—itself had no control group? That’s incredible.
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by ashearer 11y ago
If you integrate the crappy thing everyone's using with something less crappy, gradually displacing the crappiest parts, then the world has gotten better. Maybe not fast by Silicon Valley standards, but still an improvement. As for hea
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by ashearer 11y ago
Summary: a short intro to reducing DB lock contention with "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE OF x FOR SHARE OF y", and the upcoming Postgres 9.5's "SELECT ... SKIP LOCKED". It's a decent heads up about these features, but
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by ashearer 11y ago
For iOS, there's a hidden dimmed mode, which is great for nighttime. It's not obvious how to get to it, to say the least. Directions at http://lifehacker.com/toggle-your-iphones-brightness-with-a-...
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by ashearer 11y ago
This is very true--trying to create a single outcomes-based ideal of what's fair is both difficult and subject to the same strategizing that caused gerrymandering in the first place. Instead of choosing what "fair" is and max
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by ashearer 11y ago
...and for anything larger than a small fixed-size array (like the example), you'd avoid data-copying overhead by passing a slice, which is a bounds-checked bundle of pointer and length.
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by ashearer 11y ago
That's true of some decisions, but not all. It's a divide-and-conquer strategy. In some situations, ranking would be easier than the decision itself otherwise would be. In others, the method wouldn't necessarily be easier, bu
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by ashearer 11y ago
Nice work! The article benchmarks a > 20X speedup for AES-128-GCM, for performance described in the text as "on par" with OpenSSL. It would be helpful for reference to have an OpenSSL column added to the benchmark table.
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by ashearer 11y ago
One reason may be that Postgres doesn't have built-in operators for updating an individual field within a JSON doc. (The workarounds are complex and/or inefficient.)

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