Actual healthcare programmer here. Healthcare tech is not designed to employ more people, as stated by another comment. Healthcare tech is in fact designed conservatively by its nature, because lives are on the line. This tech needs to be on 24/7/365, or death might result. Furthermore, any move towards technological innovation gets incredibly bogged down with HIPAA regulation, data must stay private far more than most industries. Combine this with overall expensiveness reducing availability for tech innovation, and the fragmentation of the system into hundreds of companies by lack of universal health care like in UK or Europe, and boom: insane complexity, always-on requirements, very high privacy concerns, fragmentation and lack of inter-connection. It's an incredibly hard space, but incredibly rewarding to get Wins in this space too.
Readit NewsWhompingWindows commented on Ask HN: New to US, puzzled why tech hasn't simplified health insurance · Posted by u/ecstaticpirate
WhompingWindows commented on Ask HN: Is it possible to work and play at the same time? · Posted by u/hypertexthero
Look up Cal Newport's Deep Work book, he's writing one now Deep Life that you'll probably want to get as it will deal with this very subject.
The idea of working and playing at the same time is a bit fantastical. It's true you can flow, you can be creative, while working, but that's not play, and for probably >95% of workers, work won't be play. Work may be meaningful and purposeful, but really it pays the bills and provides meaning/purpose.
Play is something we associate with children and puppies/kittens, with games and sports and make-believe. Play is an enjoyable amusement which might mimics real-life tasks and skills in a safe environment. Work is real, and it isn't going to be low-pressure and fun for almost all jobs, otherwise why would they have to pay us to do it?
I'd look at finding true depth in the work you do, so you're finishing projects on-time, with high quality, in a non-distracted way that enhances your meaning/life. Then you use the ample spare time left to play.
WhompingWindows commented on Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/Thevet
Non-sequitur. You want to be crushed to death in 900 F heat on Venus? Or frozen in no atmosphere on Mars? I doubt many people reading the journal Nature would view "the wild" and "wilderness" as referring an extreme environment or another planet. It's not like we're talking about the Marianas Trench or the inside of a volcano crater here either.
It's about wilderness areas where people hope to see pristine nature, and how humans have tramped all over the world including what we now think of as "pristine".
WhompingWindows commented on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics matthewball.co/all/fanspr... · Posted by u/mef
Being a digital pimp is just as morally disgusting as being an irl pimp.
Let's investigate that claim. Does OF physically and emotionally abuse its creators? Does it perpetuate human trafficking? Does OF create drug addiction and use that to control its creators? Does OF force its creators to have sexual contact with potentially violent or diseased/depraved individuals?
Ask yourself, would you prefer your family members to be under an IRL pimp or run their own OF?
If you look at this realistically, OF is not nearly as morally reprehensible as an IRL pimp.
WhompingWindows commented on Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B cloud.com/news/press-rele... · Posted by u/avrionov
What does TIBCO do? Well, I know their product WebFocus, curious if anyone else here uses it. It's basically an online platform for making charts, dashboards, scheduling data extracts for clients, etc. I'm in the healthcare domain, we use WebFocus to power a bunch of clinicians' products.
I will say, I think the product's technical underpinning is not ideal. Instead of just using SQL, they have a proprietary language built in which has similarities to SQL but is much less easy to read and use. For instance a lot is stored in Metadata tables that are many clicks away from the report they're referencing. Also, there are a few cryptic keywords and things specific to WebFocus, which is obviously not that widely used and doesn't have many S.O. posts about it. So you're left staring at some various mysterious keywords or specific-syntax and thinking, do I learn anything more about this than what I need to, since this product is probably not going to last and will end up in the dust-bin like many other proprietary products. And it's just not a very employable skill like SQL.
Overall, I don't like WebFocus, I think Tableau must be a couple notches better. But hey, my org is under-staffed and we don't have the manpower to change systems, so we're stuck with this.
WhompingWindows commented on Plastic might be making us obese washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/04rob
Well that plus the cheeseburger
What a low effort comment - as if burgers and cheese and big ole pieces of meat didn't exist before plastics? HN's comments are supposed to make the conversation more interesting and more engaging.
Yeah, they were clearly plagiarizing. You should’ve told them to go pound sand
Plagiarizing aka Parent Comment just made an Open Source "library". What's wrong with using those??
WhompingWindows commented on I regret my website redesign mtlynch.io/tinypilot-rede... · Posted by u/mtlynch
Maybe there's a distribution of talent and skill in orgs, and it's nearly impossible to see if your new business partner will be great or terrible unless you have expertise in what they do...which you most likely don't if you're hiring them.
Further, how do I know if the web designer or plumber or mechanic is overcharging me, diagnosing problems I don't understand, or doing work that's not really needed?
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At some level of wealth you reach a point where no one can get to you physically. You're completely physically safe and isolated and can't be hurt. That means that the only way someone can get to you is through communicating with you and making you hurt yourself.
That means that social media is your only weakness. This is how adversaries can affect your plans and goals and disrupt your mind. Yet so many of these people seem so oblivious to this and are as terminally online as your average 4channer or facebook mom.
Does this speak to some sort of weakness in these kinds of people or the addictiveness of social media?