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I wish it were as simple as "incompetence."

There's a director-level IT manager where I work which has made my personal job a hassle for years.

There's a follow-on business process to our main process, which was a terrible mess. I wrote a program in a year and a half which vastly simplified the process. The director is mad, because his team of 10 contractors has been unable to write a successful version for 4 years now. (Hundreds of people use my software every day. There are still no production programs using his.) I even told his team's manager how to fix what's broken about their program, and they wouldn't listen. (And then the director fired that manager.)

He wants to own the process because it's important. He needs it to line his nest. So he finally got moves made to put a sympathetic middle manager in place to force me (and my direct boss) to hand over the program to his team to maintain. As they say, if you can't code it, take it over and act like you wrote it. (And charge internal groups $1000/user/year for the privilege of using it.)

Now my job involves improving another follow-on process that's also horribly broken, even worse than the first. And I just found out at lunch today that the director MADE HIS BONES, fifteen years ago, by IMPLEMENTING the horrible process that makes all these other follow-on processes both necessary and nightmarish.

<Queue the Obama WTF GIF>

So my new quote is: "Never attribute to incompetence what can be explained as ruthlessness driven by an inferiority complex."

I'm tired now, so I won't go into how I saw this behavior distort correct outcomes and delay business improvement for personal gain, a long time ago, at another Fortune 250.
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Yes! Check out the Xbox app for Windows 10. GPU drivers also provide a similar feature (nvidia’s is called shadowplay).
Retpolines certainly existed in November, perhaps before. But it's somewhat harder to modify compiler+kernel than shipping microcode you get from Intel and modifying the kernel to adopt a (no matter how ill-designed) new CPU feature. Also, it's not easy to make sure that retpolines cover all the corner cases. There was little time.

Intel engineers are a nice and cool bunch. It's not their fault.
How often can they apply a fine of that amount?

If they can apply it yearly, they can fine 2.2 billion per year, which is over a third of Qualcomm's 5.3 billion per year profit.

Sure it's a simple napkin calculation, but as long as the napkin calculation comes out to "not worth it" that's fine.

Source for numbers: http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/QCOM/financials
When vehicles are created to short crypto you can bet there will be manipulation on the short side. This is why it's relevant according to my experience and the experience of others, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Byrne

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20061004005632/en/Cal...

I also trade crypto. Just trying to provide insight that might protect a few people related to my first hand experiences in the traditional financial markets running a public company in the OTC markets.
I think this touches upon one of the most important things Apple has done for its users: a convenient way to encrypt things. In every iPhone shipped today is a key and hardware to perform en/decryption. It's the dream that was never consumer-viable with smart cards. Shipping medical records to users is only one application.
Does HIPAA motivate hospitals to take security seriously? The recent outbreaks in cryto-ransomware seem to suggest the answer is 'no.'
The wider your talent stack (writing, marketing, webdev, etc.), the luckier you'll be.
This has been the case throughout the history of computers and many other things.

We build layers on top of layers on top of layers.

Occasionally this causes problems. Often it solves them.
Definitely. Replying to emails as a team, handing off customers, reviewing contracts, all sorts of team discussions - it was happening all over the place before, and giving us a central place to go where conversations about an email thread can take place right underneath the thread was fantastic. You go from getting a reply from your boss about an email to actually sending that info to the customer in a matter of seconds.
> possibility that it could be natural and benign.

Paying billions of dollars to Apple to include only their baseband chips to monopolize is hardly natural.
Android app screenshot looks very similar to Outlook. The main problem with Outlook is the desktop app. Everything else is good enough for me.
Down with the Four-Year College Degree (2008)
My work laptop is a 2017 15" MBP. I was able to get a 4k external monitor and it definitely felt sluggish. That's when I realized the $70 multiport dongle that apple sells cannot do 4k at 60hz, and so I was seeing 4k 30hz. Had to get a dedicated Displayport to USB-C cable and now it seems to be fine.

I haven't had too many issues with performance. Few crashes here and there. The keyboard is more of an issue for me when dust gets under the keys. I don't mind the giant trackpad as I feel it gets palm rejection right most of the time.

By far the worst part of this computer is the touchbar. It's useless. I can't fathom what Apple was thinking making this required for all higher end Macbooks. The only thing I use it for is the volume slider, and occasionally buffering songs on Spotify. Other than that the ESC key is horrendous and it has no utility for me over standard keyboard hotkeys/fn buttons.
Why do you feel that they are not being paid what they are worth?

Because they perceive that there are other people in their organizations making far more money, who don't contribute much value.. or at least certainly not 2x, 3x, 4x, 10x, whatever, more value.

Whether that is actually the case or not is tough to say, exactly because it's tough to directly measure the value created by an individual developer (in most cases).
Why any individual should manage their medical records?
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Wow. That's like saying a person's name isn't important. That's like saying Latin words aren't relevant or Spanish words aren't relevant for processing English. To explain why this is bad since if the author is confused(see edit), others may be as well: Twitter mentions are contextual data. They're either addressing someone by name or they're being used in a cheeky way to replace another word.

I could quite easily say "I'm going to @chicago this weekend to see @taylor_swift". Now see if this sentence makes any sense: "I'm going to this weekend to see". Nope. What you need to do is translate them, like any other word. Sure it's not an English word, but you wouldn't ignore the word "hola" just because it's not an English word. Now, if your NLP application doesn't rely on this data, sure, throw it away. But if you're looking at Twitter and throwing away any mentions, you're not really processing natural language, are you?

Sure, it's really hard to translate. Am I talking about Chicago the city or Chicago the band? Maybe Chicago the movie?

Well that's why NLP is one of the most challenging areas of research, and nothing in this article will help solve even 0.009% of those challenges.

(edit) Maybe confused isn't the right word... they may just have other priorities for their use case. However, that doesn't excuse the title.
Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance
Which, ironically, is more honest.
I think what you're perceiving is Tolkien's world-building ability. Given that that was his greatest strength and unique as it goes, I don't think the comparison is quite fair. I mean, he submitted Silmarillion drafts for a sequel to The Hobbit before doing Lord of the Rings. I can't imagine any other fantasy author ever living up to the bar he set on that axis, it doesn't mean they can't be better in other ways.
Also because the EU is deliberately targeting US companies, the US gov't doesn't have that incentive.
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I think you meant antisymmetric. Orthogonal means "irrelevant to".

But it's like saying that publishing is opposite to privacy. Yeah... It is so by design and definition.
So what? I use Github for any code that I want to share. I’m sorry my weekend project only has two commits. I didn’t realize I was being scrutinized for every tiny detail. Would you like every social media post as well to make sure I’m perfect 100% of the time, even in informal situations where perfection is not expected?

I would not want to work with/for you.
> but it certainly has not yet succeeded at that

The claim here is actual "continuous" objects likely exist. How can you demonstrate this?

All continuous models can be reproduced in discrete models up to the resolution of "all current observations",
How are discrete models inherently unable to match continuous ones?
Two particularly exciting aspects of this announcement:

(1) Hospitals include more than one EHR vendor (both Epic and Cerner), which shows multi-vendor interoperability.

(2) Apple is using a leading healthcare standards organization (HL7)'s clinical data specification (FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), which is a huge win, and will hopefully increase adoption and usage of this open standard by provider organizations.
Fullstory tracks "rage clicks", which is a fairly noisy stat to look through, as the vast majority of these are highlighters doing their thing.
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There are always interesting problems to solve and new technologies and solutions to use. That fun definitely never ends. But a whole new language (not counting small glue/config languages/json dialects/etc), a new source base for the team, one must be cautious (and they always start small, more temptingly). It's a potentially huge and maybe not great investment being pitched. Do your due diligence.
I don't use any apps at the moment for tracking medical records, but if I did, I'd be using Microsoft's HealthVault.
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You can set it to connect to your own gateway.
Yikes. At ~60/u/mo for enterprise email & collaboration I would drop the "Replace Microsoft Outlook" line... unless you want people to start looking at what else they get beyond Outlook/Skype for Business from Microsoft for $20-$35/u/mo (E3 or E5 O365 license).
Making foolish mistakes aka learning?
They already have "Outlook lite", it's called the Outlook Web App and it has what you want.

I don't think Microsoft would be threatened by this at all. Nobody chooses to use Outlook, it's what you get if you work for a big corporation or if you purchase Office 365. It's not a standalone product, I can't just use Outlook.

I think it's not doing Front any favours to compare themselves to Outlook. Outlook is an enterprise product, my company has customized the crap out of it and it's hooked up to our global credential/access system. That's not even close to what Front is offering (a better multi-inbox tool).
In all my experience Im a firm believer that all you need is 7 talented people and you can accomplish anything.
As per Equity alert from business wire[1]

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180124005981/en/EQU...
Traversy Media is an awesome resource for beginners and seasoned developers alike! Brad curates succinct tutorials all while humbly delivering the content in a way that makes it feel like you're pair programming with a buddy!

https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb
IT guy at a medium company, thus the angry nerd
People don't just move between teams, they also move between companies, even moreso in my experience.

There's this mindset in some companies that they're IBM, they are the world, but the it's not like that anymore. You can't expect people to sit through your company training on how to use your proprietary tools and then spend 30 years working there. You want to be able to use all types of people coming in with all types of experience because it's very diverse out there. And they want to use and build skills that they can take to their next company or leverage to start their own company. You want highly motivated individuals with entrepreneurial mindsets right? What kind of environment will attract them?

Go ahead and say, "We only use COBOL here," and see how that works out. Great everything is interoperable. But you've got a team of C players. Maybe that's fine though.
I love the "elaborate desktop UI recreation web page", and it's inspiring me for my next Mac app's website. Do you have any resources to recommend?
I don't see any reason why an autonomous car couldn't be trained to move to the left lane before an on ramp, or classify neighboring cars by their observed behaviors (slow reaction time, etc).

Also, I would argue that maintaining a buffer zone in heavy traffic, though it may feel like you are breaking less/going faster, is not actually helpful. The flow rate of a section of highway (cars/hour) is the product of speed (miles per hour) and density (cars/mile). Leaving a space in front of you lowers the density, decreasing overall throughput. Ideally with self driving cars we could have them going at high speeds very close together (or even mechanically coupled like a train).
Because its their personal health record? I would be curious to know what doctors see when they read my records.
Manage a local copy. Every individual should be in possession and have a basic understanding of their medical records. Medical professionals are there to help you manage your health. As the manager, you need that information.
> "If you want to argue that the individual managers are not important and the bad effects come from higher up, you'd have to show some counter evidence to these points."

I'm not here to dispute the figures that were shared in the article, I'm suggesting that the interpretation of those figures was off, as it overlooks the aspects of management that are out of the control of the line/middle manager.

Furthermore, I'm not disputing your own reasons for leaving, as I'm not suggesting the competency of line managers can't be the reason people leave their job.
Qualcomm has had a massive monopoly on high-end LTE modems, which Apple has been forced to use and license at however much Qualcomm demands.
>Lying about a customer’s account is fraud.

Does that mean that you think that it doesn't happen?
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Sorry for my low quality post but Outlook is just fine. It's crappy, crashy and bloated...but it's just fine.

This outfit and app won't exist 365 days from now, I guarantee it.
Correct of course. I sent a long time deciding if I should extend my part or not to cover that distinction, but I'd felt I'd said enough.
it's really not worth it. If people want to exchange encrypted messages, they should use a proper tool for that.
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Getting liquidity to short or long on margin is as easy as clicking a button and getting liquidated.

Poloniex, Bitfinex and BitMex are some of the places you can play that game. You can even become a BTC lender on some of those exchanges and get around 20% APR since loans can be compounded every 1-2 days or even shorter depending on the duration of positions people open.
Another issue with Skype and Signal not suprising
Some mirrors already support HTTPS, but Debian doesn't advertise this. An incomplete, possibly out-of-date list is here:

https://lists.debian.org/53B6150A.3000602@at.or.at

Besides that, https://deb.debian.org/ provides HTTPS mirrors backed by CDNs.

I don't know how to get http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ over HTTPS though. :-(
(I'd tried Mistborn years ago but didn't get into it)

Sanderson appeals to readers with certain sensibilities. The rules of his world always make sense, and things follow those rules, even including the magic. There are lots of readers for whom this is a great boon, because otherwise, magic feels like mere plot convenience and deus ex machina.
A fair price, nice work! :)
All that matters is the Narrative.
What do you think of this list of cloud storage providers on Quora?
> I haven’t seen many good proposals for reform though.

You're not reading the right colour books.
Smart cards made for a cool plot device in 24 though.
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By sucking profits from American companies?
Yes--HIPAA provides a mechanism for fines to be levied against (most) healthcare organizations that suffer data breaches through the office of civil rights (OCR), with a public reporting of organizations that have been penalized.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enfor...
Thank you! A bit frustrating that the original article didn't cite the paper
Incidentally, this is exactly the bill that https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dragonwriter and I were talking about.

Once again, dragonwriter's comment is that this bill "does nothing", and I joked about it being concise, because that is rare in California politics.

Sorry I had to explain this to you since you seemed to have missed it, but I couldn't leave you in the dark.

Edit: Apparently I have it wrong, this is not the same bill. Multiple tabs open :/
I look for signs of understanding.

I want to see an understanding of git - they have repos with appropriate commits, good commit messages, awareness of licensing, decent READMEs or info for collaborators

I want to feel like they understand how open source works - they've filed or participated in issues/discussions, they've starred/forked repos, they've opened PRs, they've managed issues/PRs on their own repos.

I want to see how they manage their projects/repos. Do they use a package manager? Do they have linting or build tools? Do they use CI? Have they kept the repo clean and ready for others? Do they use automated testing?

I don't expect to see all of this - but if someone has none of it, it's clear they have a lot to learn and aren't ready for the job.
It sounds like his writing would be better served if he just tacked on an appendix with all of the magical minutiae.
The adage “You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain” feels especially true in software.

It's been intriguing but disappointing watching Medium transition from a site that cared a lot about enhancing the readability of the average blog, to a site that cared a lot about forcing sticky engagement. I understand why they did it ($$$), but I long for the days when there were no popups, no fixed bottom bars saying "download the app" etc.

It's easy to take medium's appearance for granted now, but when they launched, their implementation was game changing. Much of the improvement in blog readability, especially in the SaaS space, feels like it can be attributed to learning from and emulating the (longstanding) typographical principles Medium put forward.
Now I’m curious.. is the EU deliberately targeting US companies or are US companies just more prone to adopting antitrust (by EU standards) practices?

Has the EU cracked down on many non-US companies?
Agreed, I have no idea where my vaccine records are from 10+ years ago.
Metrics should always be supplemented with communication. If Dave's performance is under question, talk to him and find out his progress on the one ticket he's been working on.

EDIT: realized after posting that multiple people made this point. Just goes to show that it should be common sense.
> Governments should not have the level of strategic advantage over their populations that they've been used to.

But, see, governments always have that. They always have a bigger gun than you do.

You want to shine light on government activities. That's good, and you are right to want it. But the cost is that the government will also be able to shine even more light on your activities.
The scuttlebot link mentions append-only. Does this include the possibility of appending a "delete" or "edit" message?
I mean... those profits come from breaking the law. So I guess yes, technically you're right.

EDIT: I don't understand, how can anyone be against this? Doesn't every good person wish that all people and companies would behave according to the law? Did you vote for Trump?
They take HIPAA seriously (because there are fines), but that is definitely not the same thing as taking security seriously.
I'm part of a 3-man company, Glare Technologies, and we develop and market two products: a high end 3D renderer with plugins for several 3D modelling apps, and a fractal art application. We do basically everything, from the online store and website to the coding and support emails. We've been fully independent since the beginning, around 2010.

When I hear about the development world out there, especially in America, where everyone has these crazy offices and there's just money flying everywhere and it's all growth growth growth with loads of people joining all the time, I can't help but feel it's an entirely different universe.

We could probably do better with some investment and growth, but it's great to just be a small team.
> ssb webclient

https://github.com/ssbc/patchfoo

you do need to host your `sbot` somewhere tho
I'll take the downvote as a "no".
That isn't actually important unless you have multiple algorithms, which is when you create an ISquareRootApproximator interface, and have NewtonRaphsonAlgorithm and any other classes implement it.

Then you can have them duke it out running identical unit tests in the profiler.

That creates a clean separation between the people who just need to know what a function does and those that need to know how that function works. People who just need an approximated square root fast can understand perfectly well what ISquareRootApproximator.ApproximateSquareRoot( r ) does, and don't necessarily care whether your "get me a square root approximator" function returns a NewtonRaphsonAlgorithm, or a CORDICAlgorithm, or a BitshiftsMagicNumbersAndLookupTablesAlgorithm, or something else, so long as it approximates a square root.
For multiple reasons, but here's one that strikes close to home: not every person who you may wish to have access to information contained in those records will have it via the health care system.

E.g., I need a personal trainer to help me work around my back problems. It's useful to be able to answer his/her questions by referencing my records, instead of vague shrugging about some random disc.

Another e.g.: my aunt does a good job of sharing family medical records so that we know who in our past had conditions that may be relevant to our healthcare as well.
IMO, we should focus more on standardizing on runtimes rather than language. Languages evolve, and new ones come out that solve problems better. We luckily live in an age where many of those languages can interop at the runtime level.

As a developer, and as a team, it sucks to be told "you must use Java and JavaScript for time immemorial." An easy compromise is that any package/library/service/etc. must target the JVM or JavaScript VM and provide interop with existing code.
Having experience with hospital IT working for an outside vendor before HIPAA had much impacted practice (though after it was adopted), yes, I think it's made them take it much more seriously. That's not to say it's good now, but if you hadn't experienced it you probably can't imagine how bad it used to be.