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by pragone 14y ago
Yes and no - the faster you can get them to the hospital, the better the chance. But complete occlusion of one of many arteries or veins will lead to sudden death, and each minute that passes means death of the heart muscle. Heart muscle
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by pragone 14y ago
I was in the exact situation a year or so ago. Everything I wanted to build, I always went straight to PHP. I stopped myself from, unfortunately, not building things. I've spent the last year learning Ruby, Python, Rails, Django, and a ha
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by pragone 14y ago
So currently what we didn't make clear (and will fix soon) is that you need to be signed in with LinkedIn in order for it to populate. Our apologies!
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by pragone 14y ago
It seems to be quite a bit more stable.... found and fixed the main bug that was causing it to crash.
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by pragone 14y ago
We have a rare bug that pops up from time to time that I'm trying to catch, so bare with us through this
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by pragone 14y ago
Two things about Bloomberg: The "taxpayers" pay him $1 a year (granted that doesn't mean he shouldn't do the job of Mayor, but just saying). And two: He OWNS a technology company. If I owned one and wasn't on the technical side, I'd be in
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by pragone 15y ago
I got a little bored and wanted to play around in various languages, so I'm writing a scraper for this: https://github.com/pcragone/anurandom
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by pragone 15y ago
Many people will assume it's a joke, and not take you seriously - of course, at their own risk.
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by pragone 15y ago
I would agree with some of the other posters here - it depends on the work you do. I use two 28" monitors at home, and very rarely do they have distractions on them. A webpage I'm referencing, an IDE, another browser for testing, at least
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by pragone 15y ago
Not at all. I'm just pointing out how screwed up the system is that the government requires practitioners to treat people but doesn't provide the financial resources to pay for it. I've worked in systems that basically were bankrupt repea
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by pragone 15y ago
The one item missing here is a hot-topic of mine: emergency care. Not only are emergency services as expensive as the rest of medicine, but worse than that is the providers have a legal responsibility to care for the individual, who in tur
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by pragone 15y ago
neato! thanks
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by pragone 15y ago
Also for those interested, I've found the wakemate to be pretty useful and pretty accurate, especially for someone like me who has an enormous period of time I might fall asleep in. It works as an actigraph to capture your sleep patterns a
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by pragone 15y ago
Interesting thought. Pretty useless for people like me - it takes me 2-4 hours to fall asleep usually. It would be helpful if you could include an option for setting how long it usually takes one to fall asleep, and adjust the calculation
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by pragone 15y ago
Doesn't work in Chrome, OS X Snow Leopard
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by pragone 15y ago
theclay is right - the benefit is to make physicians more efficient and to allow them access to tools that benefit the public as a whole. They shouldn't have to spend the majority of their time trying to negotiate insurances and medicare/m