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by webjprgm 11y ago
Tell this to my IT department that gave me a Macmini with SSD and not only insists on antivirus but also on File Vault. It takes a long time to boot and Xcode compiles are horribly slow. (Eventually I'll convince them, it just hasn&#x2
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I only heard of Bowie because of The Labyrinth. :-)
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by webjprgm 11y ago
My work laptop has one, yes, but it is closed and docked so I can use the two larger monitors on the desk. Ergo it is equivalent to not having a camera at all.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
This was my first thought when I read the article. There ought to be some test track qualification before allowing a new system to be tested on the public road.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Another part of my problem is that I have too many projects I want to do. Learning about AI is one example, but I've instead done a series of web and mobile apps which are much closer to success. It would take a lot of time to read a
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Does it really? Students in high school could easily take the lazy approach of believing that education doesn't matter because they will always have the basic income anyway. Noble people will better themselves under either system. Does
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Yup. I still don't see why everyone complains about current mail clients. Mail.app on OS X / iOS, Outlook on Windows, works for me. To make me switch, you would have to show me why the new thing was so much better. Like how Google
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Cool. This might have come in handy about 6 years ago for a C++ OpenGL cross-platform project. (I haven't done a C/C++ project in a long time though ...)
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by webjprgm 11y ago
It starts before the ballot box, winning over voters. And that takes money.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
El Camino is annoying enough to drive on that it really would be quite frustrating. Depending on the time of day.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of data do you propose searching? Do you mean searching a patient chart? Searching for lab results? Searching doctor notes? Or do you mean more like analytics to see trends? Or for finding patients, in the vein o
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I would argue that it isn't about how old the technology is but how good the developer tools and support are. Newer technologies (not brand new, ones that have a few years of maturity) often have better support in common developer plat
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by webjprgm 11y ago
It may not be deliberate attempt to lock customers in, but just the first part of what you said: there is no incentive to make this any easier. It basically works, so hospitals/clinics that need to make a few simple customizations can
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by webjprgm 11y ago
The latest buzzword is precision medicine. Also if that's from 2008 then it is missing all the advancements in mobile (iPhone is 2007) and digital health monitoring like FitBit. So one of those three things could easily make an improve
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by webjprgm 11y ago
BTW, while I would love to improve the healthcare industry and I wish you the best of luck, I don't think software is the primary problem. Sure, it is very expensive and always 10 years out of date. But the real problem is government a
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by webjprgm 11y ago
No discussion about APIs in health care EMRs would be complete without mentioning HL7's new FHIR protocols: REST-ful web service endpoints for HL7 health data. It makes developing applications with these standards much easier. But that
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I used to read Yahoo! News too, but the quality became too low and the bias too annoying. I still use Yahoo! email as my secondary account. My Dad used to spend time on Yahoo!'s portal too, mostly for stocks and movie information. I ne
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by webjprgm 11y ago
If everyone likes Star Wars then you can make Star Wars references and jokes in company meetings and announcements and expect positive reception. Any effective presentation requires a knowledge of one's audience. But it does seem kinda
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by webjprgm 11y ago
There's at least some level of tenured and management defending their privileges at any company. I was momentarily shocked when in a conversation with some managers at Apple who responded in a rather hostile manner about being too youn
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by webjprgm 11y ago
The case that has bugged me is when I have some integer number of items and I need to compute some CGFloat for drawing something based on it. count * SpacingPixels gives an error, need CGFloat(count) * SpacingPixels even though there is no
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Yes, but the video is just as horrible. You sit there slowly watching someone write the narration, which you can't really read anyway so you read the subtitles. There is nothing that shows how the UI works to do anything other than wri
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by webjprgm 11y ago
How embedded are you thinking? C# has LINQ for example. Is that not embedded enough? What about in-memory SQL databases for JavaScript? I don't know anything about FoxPro, so I'm trying to understand what you mean by "embedde
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by webjprgm 11y ago
It sounds like you need a physical device between both ends. So you couldn't have untraceable radio-like communication. You would just follow the path of spheres like a wire. But yeah, if you could teleport a magnetic field across l
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by webjprgm 11y ago
To be honest, I only want to be ruled my a meritocracy if I can define myself as the most intelligent person in the world. (Or, in the upper 10% or something). A true meritocracy scares me. And this from a guy who was in the upper 10% of
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by webjprgm 11y ago
There was one time (2006 at a company of less than 50 people) where I absolutely refused to build the new pricing features in a billing system (which would have been a big hack on a long series of smaller hacks) unless they let me refactor
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Yeah. They said for doing simple things rather than building complex systems the current tools are not very convenient. I find it really useful to use Ruby's built-in CSV library to process data for spreadsheets then visualize it with
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I really enjoyed building data applications in MS Access before it was sunset. In fact, I finally started understanding SQL joins by using Access's graphical query builder so that it made me much better at my PHP web programming job. (
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I agree completely. I'm using "Cha-Ching 2 beta" which was abandoned some 6 years ago when Intuit bought out the company working on it but the beta still works (I owned a copy of Cha-Ching 1 from some software bundle I picked
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I prefer using my own credit card and getting reimbursed since then I get points on my card. (Which I then use to buy things on Amazon that I want without considering my budget.) Obviously this is part of credit card companies charging fees
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Since all my comments so far have sounded like I oppose giving out contraceptives (since I am very much a proponent of moral living), let me clarify. I think it is great to help lift people out of poverty. Since there is a trend among poor

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