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by tom_b 13y ago
I'm not a HIPAA consultant (nor do I know someone to recommend), but do work with PHI and research data as well. HIPPAA is mainly about having and following a reasonable process for protecting patient data, both at rest and in-flight on the
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by tom_b 13y ago
I love the "getting things done" message and think it applies to so many endeavors. A good GPA and "getting things done" are not mutually exclusive. I worked hard to produce stuff at school (good grades and projects). I tried to establish
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by tom_b 13y ago
wow - the workflow mgmt hacking Stuart has done seems much more in-depth and hacked on than any Clojure I've actually written. I mainly play with Clojure for little things, but still, . . . I'm impressed. Heck, I barely use two or three co
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by tom_b 13y ago
Having both been a summer intern and supervised summer interns since, I have followed the advice of the person who mentored me as a summer intern when it was time to work with my own: Choose a project you would do if you had time, but is of
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by tom_b 13y ago
To answer your question, in some training/reinforcement circles, the answer to the question of what to do when what behavior you are seeking doesn't occur is nothing at all. You might be interested in checking out: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by tom_b 13y ago
As MS in CS degree holder, I strongly agree with the article re: the idea that coursework-only MS in CS programs are less worthy that programs that include a thesis. I say this as a MS holder who did not complete a thesis and regret it (mu
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by tom_b 13y ago
I think that the idea that programmers want to have anonymous functions is hitting on something. I play with Clojure on a semi-frequent basis and find myself often taking advantage of dropping in anonymous functions to my map, reduce, filt
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by tom_b 13y ago
Hi Vivek. I just got an email from Hackerrank checking in on why I haven't submitted any new code since the transition from InterviewStreet. I do not feel like it is a waste of time or energy, particularly since I use sites with problems a
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by tom_b 13y ago
I believe it's somewhat impossible to overestimate how REPL-like data munging with SQL actually is. Particularly as the complexity of your data exploration increases. Celko calls this "thinking in sets."
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by tom_b 13y ago
Find joy in working with accomplished hackers regardless of age. On this very forum I have discovered several worth following - I read their blogs, look at their code, aspire to learn from them, and sometimes despair at all that I still ne
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by tom_b 13y ago
XML and Oracle drives me crazy in general. You wind up with neither a relational model nor a generally useful way of data storage/exchange. I am almost always working with legacy schemas, many generated by long-extinct tools or developers,
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by tom_b 13y ago
Enjoy. A CTE, Xpath, and Oracle-specific hierarchical bits for a data report I'm generating. My favorite part was the XML in a CLOB column where all the values were stored in XML element attributes. I tend to build these monstrosities up
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by tom_b 13y ago
This exact issue continues to confuse me. I don't want to be in the business of maintaining some weird, non-intuitive structure to simplify my queries. I've pondered just concatenating (or hashing a concatenation) of fields (a compound p
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by tom_b 13y ago
The ability to "project some or all of the table's other attributes into a secondary index" smells a bit like a materialized view in the description. I am often thinking in a star-schema direction (too much time data warehousing) rather tha
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by tom_b 13y ago
Yeah . . . 20 years ago. If I'm not wrong, I saw Phish in Winston in '92ish in a small downtown venue, with something like maybe 500 or 600 people - tops - in the audience. My brother was very wired into the up and coming jam band scene t
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by tom_b 13y ago
A bit. However (and this entirely dates me), I saw Phish off and on from the '93 period forward and it was clear the audience was growing at an unbelievable pace prior to Jerry Garcia's death. I remember a show in 1994 in Winston Salem wh
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by tom_b 14y ago
Tenure is often not a prize that offers the solid reward you mention. In many departments, even tenured professors must receive grant awards equivalent to large percentages (or even exceeding) their salary. So, your freedom to pursue wh
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by tom_b 14y ago
I have had reasonable success with using the Apache POI project for the XLSX and XLS. You might want to consider looking at the community edition of Pentaho Data Integration at the 5.0 level and up. It includes POI for XLSX. I use it all
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by tom_b 14y ago
I've chased the RESTful login/authentication around the web off and on when thinking about REST apis. It seems to boil down to two main approaches. 1 - follow the AWS API models, with a signed request using a private secret known only to
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Putting people in boxes(johndcook.com)
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by tom_b 14y ago
As a HBCU comp sci alum, one important message that should be shouted - entrepreneurship is a career option for hackers. Especially hackers with unique insight into diverse communities. What I remember of undergrad is that companies were d
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by tom_b 14y ago
Fred Brooks, No Silver Bullet: How to grow great designers? Space does not permit a lengthy discussion, but some steps are obvious: • Systematically identify top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced. •
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by tom_b 14y ago
Purchased as soon as I received the email from Manning. fogus, eagerly anticipating the logic programming section. Skip everything else to draft that, of course after the Clojure/West miniKanren conf. Which I am unable to attend (crying s
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by tom_b 14y ago
Congratulations on heading to HackerSchool! A and B seem mutually exclusive to me these days. You seem to have an interesting (and not necessarily narrow) skillset, so don't sweat "broadness" much. The greatest number of opportunities are
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by tom_b 14y ago
I'm kind of with you on the whiteboard code issue (I was sitting in on the interview in question), especially for a "hard" coding exercise. My bigger concern is that for a job that specifically highlighted the need for at least some SQL ski
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by tom_b 14y ago
As someone on a bioinformatics team in a public research institution, salaries range from $75k to $100K for developers on our team. This includes a number of people, including myself, who do primarily normal IT things (data management, sma
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by tom_b 14y ago
I share your interest in the Datalog engine implementation. The free version of Datomic does include Datomic Datalog and you can certainly play with it against the normal Clojure data structures without bothering with the backend. You migh
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by tom_b 14y ago
Much of the EMR system I deal with was built primarily to address billing rather than patient care. The structured data (ICD-9 codes, service dates, etc) exists for that. The crufty part of the system is related to patient test results an
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by tom_b 14y ago
Interesting comment - I occasionally kick myself for not diving into K/Q and J, specifically because I think of them being well-suited for "robust analytics system(s)." I am on the edge of deep-diving into statistical modeling and have been
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by tom_b 14y ago
Yes! Also, interestingly Arthur Whitney created the initial one page fragment that started Roger Hui on J http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum http://keiapl.org/rhui/remember.htm

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