gmarx

43 ms·

421.
by gmarx 11y ago
I think they are creating a new market. People now use Uber in situations in which they never would have thought to take a cab. That is not to say this valuation makes sense
422.
by gmarx 11y ago
part of that could be risk aversion but a lot of it is just the fact that screenwriting is a skill. Everyone wants to be a screenwriter so we are used to (believe it or not) only seeing the top tiniest fraction of a percent of material ever
423.
by gmarx 11y ago
That has to be a joke (the sodomy thing, I mean)
424.
by gmarx 11y ago
I definitely think almost all of them find it gratifying but admitting to such is shameful, thus the pretense and alternative explanations like they care about healthcare costs for society
425.
by gmarx 11y ago
Hurting peoples feelings does not improve their health. My guess is (I don't know you) looking down on fat people is one of the mechanisms by which you make yourself feel worthy. You are not doing it from their benefit. Believe me, it
426.
by gmarx 11y ago
I've been really fat most of my life, currently doing pretty well. When you have this problem most people, if they ever lose weight, experience a cycle- lose a lot of weight followed by cockiness/judginess (maybe, I never got that
427.
by gmarx 11y ago
A subpoena doesn't require evidence of misconduct. As I understand it congress asked one of their agencies to provide information and they refused. I think subpoena is the legal way of saying, your refusal is invalid. Give us the infor
428.
by gmarx 11y ago
very clear. Thanks
429.
by gmarx 11y ago
years ago I was working on a pitch for a startup based on tech I had developed. My adviser, a successful serial entrepreneur told me not to call the tech "revolutionary" (or something like that) because potential investors hear it
430.
by gmarx 11y ago
For some people, altering what other people do by acting super offended is the only power they will ever experience. The text of the offense is not important and does not have to make any sense to you.
431.
by gmarx 11y ago
I don't think early investors dubbed themselves "Angels". If I recall correctly it came from the term used for similar people who used to finance Broadway shows. I like to think some ingenue in the 1920s called some rich guy
432.
by gmarx 11y ago
I guess. There are risks to telling a kid anything. I was fat, un-athletic and shy. I'm kind of glad I had one thing to cling to.
433.
by gmarx 11y ago
Including XML and RDF doesn't bother me. A lot of people greatly prefer JSON over XML. I don't get exorcised either way. The final two look like problems. I would guess the penultimate one is because most medical systems ignore ti
434.
by gmarx 11y ago
I know it isn't wise to ask about downvotes but why would people downvote me for stating what I experienced when it is relevant to the discussion? Can people not tolerate anything which deviates from the narratives in their heads?
435.
by gmarx 11y ago
When I was kid people told me I was smart. I don't think I experienced any of this.
436.
by gmarx 11y ago
Better search is definitely needed and seems like something the EPICs and Cerners of the world could easily do if they just assigned a couple smart people and left them alone. Instead they'll probably form vast teams of search stakehol
437.
by gmarx 11y ago
Saying these companies could just open their APIs is probably wrong. None of the legacy EMRs has a good underlying data model and what they have tends to be customized per site. There might be some minor functionality you could get to work
438.
by gmarx 11y ago
Can you be specific? I'm a skeptic but just now learning about it.
439.
by gmarx 11y ago
Thanks for partially supporting my position :)
440.
by gmarx 11y ago
I'm not a Ruby programmer so maybe this is wrong for some reason. I leave it in place. With intelliJ you can collapse comment blocks so if you have a bad reaction to "messy" code you don;t have to look at it. Leave the corpse
441.
by gmarx 11y ago
That requires future developers to check the VCS + Bugtracker diligently and somehow search for relevant issues. My method places the warning right where the mischief might be done
442.
by gmarx 11y ago
I keep lots of commented out code in my projects, usually with a dated explanation of why it was commented out. You don't want someone coming by later and trying the same thing that worked most of the time but was foiled by an inobviou
443.
by gmarx 11y ago
The most shocking implication of this article is that Sam Nunn and Bill Frist are not aging. Seriously though, how does moving several people from the board of directors to board of counselors help?
444.
by gmarx 11y ago
I've come to suspect the main reason silicon valley startups don't hire oldsters is that we are far less likely to fall for "low salary/long hours because we are gonna be rich!!!!!!!!"
445.
by gmarx 11y ago
Sadly a crash might not do it. Next big trend, Chinese rich people sneaking money out of the country and into California real estate
446.
by gmarx 11y ago
It is conceivable that they could use software to correct for this. Is there is something they can measure that indicates the amount of dilution with interstitial fluid,there might be a way to take account of it. Similarly you'd want t
447.
by gmarx 11y ago
The reason for the act, I think, was to provide the incentive to commercialize the results of potentially valuable research. It's not an entirely loony idea
448.
by gmarx 11y ago
Do you really need just a JVM and a Kernel? You must need a filesystem too. How do you connect to a database?
449.
by gmarx 11y ago
This is amazing advice and exactly the sort of thing I would forget when I need it. What I need is a guy like you on the payroll to handle crap like this for me. Who is going to remember this website (OP) when time comes to cancel. What you
450.
by gmarx 11y ago
We're getting there. We still have huge problems on the data input side. Standards like fhir might be okay (though limited). Problem is most of the data we would love to analyze is never input as discrete data in the first place. We ar

More ›