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by tjpick 16y ago
accidental upvote. Actually meant to give it to something interesting... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1316643
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by tjpick 16y ago
from what I remember, you might be right that Dragon is not that great, PowerScribe is the one I remember being more popular -- I was doing RIS (Radiology Information System) work at the time about a year ago.
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by tjpick 16y ago
the ones where it is successful invest quite a bit into training the software and the doctors use macros heavily.
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by tjpick 16y ago
ok, but you can still weight them without using more questions... let's say we reduced it to 2 questions for arguments sake, call the questions q1 and q2, and call whatever the answer to that question is, a1 and a2. you currently do this: q
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by tjpick 16y ago
I have conflicting anecdotes: 1. it's used heavily and successfully in medical dictation situations, ie medical professionals dictating case notes. 2. I was so excited about speech control in OSX, and I tried it, and it was shit because I h
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by tjpick 16y ago
kinda true, I embraced that everything is date based, and it works well for me.
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by tjpick 16y ago
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/%22The_Homer%22
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by tjpick 16y ago
another application that can be used in this way is pyblosxom
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by tjpick 16y ago
I found that surprisingly useful. I'd be interested in developing that scale a little further since it's kind of weird that everything has different weights and, for example with point 7: The current code base can’t be used for anything. 1-
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by tjpick 16y ago
how long is a piece of string? It depends on the time that your database query or http call takes, and how much data you are returning, and how much processing you have to do on it. A well written query or call won't have too much of a nega
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by tjpick 16y ago
if it's the simple stuff like variable substitution and simple loops, php is actually not too bad IMO. When you start doing database and http calls then your performance gets a lot worse. A static page is obviously going to be faster though
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by tjpick 16y ago
1. a benefit of web standards is to developers/content producers. You can deliver 1 piece of content, warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that anyone can view it and get a reasonably similar representation (eg, lynx vs iphone vs firefox vs ie)
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Throw out your frameworks(blog.ianbicking.org)
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by tjpick 16y ago
ahhh, thanks.
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by tjpick 16y ago
pretty cool, wonder if it could be used in reverse -- eg to deduce something interesting about the user such as whether it is the finger of a child or an adult etc.
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by tjpick 16y ago
thanks
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by tjpick 16y ago
> to influence the organization of records on disk so that the most common queries will require very few seeks might be revealing my lack of knowledge here but what tools/apis etc does one use when they want to work at this level? It se
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by tjpick 16y ago
> a way for developers to make money I'm not terribly familiar with webOS/palm ecosystem, hence the question: what's the usual channel for selling a webOS app? all this cloud talk etc, does that mean you can chuck up a web site/app targ
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by tjpick 16y ago
the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software. That's what they'll teac
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by tjpick 16y ago
I'm getting more and more convinced that the best way frameworks can work is to be like scaffolding when building a house etc. By the time the structure is built, you don't need the scaffolding any more so you tear it down. By the time you'
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by tjpick 16y ago
I installed macports and emacs and kept using OSX like any other unix-like terminal. But in all honesty I prefer my freebsd box for dev over my osx laptop. Using standard unix foo on OSX isn't quite as clean as it is on bsd. Except for the
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by tjpick 16y ago
I just don't get quotes like (I see in the sidebar) "we are making a web where the default is social". No shit Sherlock. The web has always been social and about sharing information. There's the <a> tag, one might say linking to you
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by tjpick 16y ago
audio + digital dictation = text? Just a suggestion.
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by tjpick 16y ago
The fact that people who start sentences with "the fact that" really mean "the anecdote that" is not a new phenomenon.
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by tjpick 16y ago
I know plenty of 30 year olds that love to change things just for the sake of it
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by tjpick 17y ago
actual tactile feedback . A major feature of real buttons. This is what they refer to as affordance. A button, by its nature, is meant to be pushed, and obviously so, even when you aren't looking at it. The more interesting trend to me, wh
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by tjpick 17y ago
Computer science is a necessary and essential component of software engineering. Designing software properly _is_ "proper" design. Just a different set of variables.
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by tjpick 17y ago
Maybe for them the task has gone from being cognitive to being mechanical. Either by practise, or by some self-hypnosis-like trick.
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PublicACTA posts the Wellington Declaration(publicacta.org.nz)
2 points by tjpick 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Data API supporting HTTP PATCH verb(code.google.com)
2 points by tjpick 17y ago|0 comments

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