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NexHealth - https://www.nexhealth.com/ | San Francisco SF Bay Area | Software Engineers & Problem Solvers | ONSITE | FULL-TIME | https://jobs.lever.co/nexhealth

We're building the infrastructure for people and their doctors. Think Plaid, but for healthcare.

* Launched in 2017

* Tripled in ARR last year

* Raised a $6M seed round recently

* 8M+ patients

* 3K+ doctors

* Household names using our developers API

* Opportunity to build out the team, culture and processes and have a say in company direction

* Opportunity to help bring an old industry into 2020 while working on products that help improve the lives of doctors, office staff and patients

Potential impact: NexHealth scaled out with our network of doctors, patients, and developers means a world where our healthcare system is living in the 21st century. And innovation is accelerated with NexHealth technology being the infrastructure supporting it all.

Looking for:

- Senior Backend Platform Engineer (Ruby, Python, Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch)

- Frontend Engineer (javascript, React, Angular, HTML, CSS)

- Integrations/Data Engineer (Python, SQL, Web Scraping, ETL, Data Warehousing)

- Full Stack Engineer (Rails, React, Angular, JS)

Apply at: https://jobs.lever.co/nexhealth

Interview process:

- 30-45 minute phone call with founder

- 30-45 minute technical video call with founder

- on-site to meet team, whiteboard, small project
I think it's because they read that the majority of cases are "mild" symptoms not understanding that mild symptoms includes being bed ridden for 10 days and contracting pneumonia.
Also Sharks games will be no audience now.
Indeed, I wanted to point out that all countries seem to go through the same process over time.

It's somehow like all countries are adopting the limitations gradually, like a bit of denial that it will really happen. Wouldn't it make sense to skip some steps and be proactive? At the end we all seem to take the direction of Italy [1], maybe we should consider quarantine directly. It may be a bit more brutal, but it will cost less lives and be over sooner.

The federal council is meeting on Friday morning if I'm not mistaken, I would not be surprised to see new measures during Friday lunch.

[1] https://ibb.co/gZDfgPy
> Trump has mastered the art of saying word salads that convey what he wants but do not syntactically say what he communicated.

"It's the President's fault that I ignored what he was saying so that I could interpret it uncharitably, and share that interpretation without a second thought."

> he thinks many immigrants are rapists

You got this from... What? A speech talking up the border wall, a measure that by definition only pertains to a subset of illegal aliens, not "immigrants" broadly.

You are responsible for your own ludicrous interpretations of plain language. It is not anyone else's fault that you choose to believe something is meant that isn't said.

When the President continues to say things like “I want people to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally”, you can't credibly interpret that as an indictment of immigrants.
If it works, it will look like an overreaction.

If it doesn't work, there will be cries about how not enough was done.

Like in IT/DevOps/etc. when you're doing your job very well, your job looks unnecessary.
just remember sheeple, nothing is accidental
Not sure about the NBA, but in the MLB, the league enforces a certain amount of revenue sharing between teams as an attempt to even things out: https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Revenue_sharing

Of course, this doesn't do much to equalize the budgets of the teams, which tend to be influenced more by how just how many billions of dollars the owner(s) have.
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Catholic churches will just add more masses. The schedules are flexible (any time from Saturday afternoon to Sunday evening counts as Sunday mass) and masses can be made much shorter than they usually are.
I wonder how the orange man's tone will change when he gets it.
So how is it supposed to work in practice? Pages will ship SPIR-V and will be converted to WGSL just for Apple on the fly, or pages will ship WGSL, and it will be converted to SPIR-V on the fly for everyone else?

I surely hope not the later, let Apple pay performance price for being the root of the problem.
If we were manufacturing everything in the United States, supply chains would still be disrupted because companies would be sending workers home, which is what they are doing already. No supply chain is safe in the event of a global pandemic.

One day there might be a pandemic which affects the West but not China, which would make outsourcing supply chains look pretty smart. You are drawing a general conclusion based on the circumstances of a single, rare event.

Besides, where is the suicide of the west here? The west has benefitted from this arrangement for decades. The west is better off with this arrangement than it would have been without it, and this pandemic would have happened anyway, and it would have disrupted supply chains anyway.

I have not yet seen any evidence that lack of western manufacturing capability has made this pandemic worse. However, there is a massive body of economic knowledge that tells us that exploiting comparative advantage increases wealth.
This one also came just a few minutes ago:

https://kuow.org/stories/seattle-public-schools-closes-for-t...
Also a Seattle resident. I was glad to see Trevor Bedford endorse their approach unprompted: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1237802324409516033
School districts of families that cannot afford internet also are school districts that are so poorly funded that subsidized internet and cheap chromebooks are not an option. Additionally, schools may be the only time these kids are able to get real food.
Sure, I think the limit is too high too. I just don't think there's going to be any exercising of these rules except against absolutely brazen cases of going over limit.
I don't see any news about it yet but a cancellation seems likely considering the mass gathering ban in Santa Clara.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/10/wwdc-cancellation/
My understanding is that the ban also excludes work.
Surely a group of conservative old, wise people who advocate personal responsibility would all choose not to attend an event while a novel virus is spreading around the world?

Ask for updated RSVPs, and when you see 0 plan to attend your event nor any alternative, cancel this year's live event.
It sounds like you're looking for Sandstorm[1], which is a thing I desperately wish I had an excuse to use.

[1] https://sandstorm.io/
The same logic used to keep lots of important information out of the prying eyes of voters and oversight committees.

==the last thing you would want is the public questioning every single thing. Because they will. If they don’t, the opposition party certainly will.==

And if you classify it wouldn't that also cause the public to question "every single thing" just the same? Seems like the case we have proves that to be true as they hid it and people are still questioning.
Violators of this of this order may be subject to criminal penalties pursuant to RCW 43.06.220(5).

Which, it turns out, is a gross misdemeanor, https://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.06.220, whose punishment is up to 364 days in a county jail, up to a $5,000 fine, or both. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=9.92.020
I've always wondered why support wasn't added. It's a very simple change to add them; and everyone continuously tries-and-fails to use them. @dang et al, is there nobody on your side who can make little patches like this to "pave the well-trod path"?
To be fair, that is the 'official' communication channel from the president of the US to its citizens.
Talk about completely missing the point. Seattle Public Schools has thousands of homeless students, and thousands more where school is their only reliable meal. It's not about "access to technology", it's about keeping a safe place open for these kids without straight up coming out and saying that's what its about because then you'd have to deal with the "MINORITIES GETTING SOCIALISM" brigade and it's simply easier to use delicate language.
How many homeless folks are in the largest "tent city" in SF?
Apparently cheap has a price...
Here is the text, it does not include office:

> Gatherings of 250 people or more for social, spiritual and recreational activities including, but not limited to, community, civic, public, leisure, faith-based, or sporting events; parades; concerts; festivals; conventions; fundraisers; and similar activities

Source: https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/20-07%20Coro...
Not often - and that's why it's so risky. Events like concerts draw random folks from diverse workplaces and communities with a shared interest that otherwise wouldn't interact, as such it tends to be a good way for the disease to break out into new communities.
Yup, the US is not as bad, the US government kinda is.
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I'm using a psuedonym but my real phone number. I don't see what they would compare it to though. It might as well just be a burner phone.

I do not believe they check it; if you provide an ID scan, it's good enough.

Because you have no choice but to join.
The article covers a lot of topics, but for folks looking for more information about the zero trust approach to service security I'd recommend BeyondCorp (a publication by Google):

https://www.beyondcorp.com/
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I don't think anyone trust the government anymore, otherwise we wouldn't see such a dip in the market.
So the WHO has done everything right. It is the hallmark of professionalism to follow rules even under pressure. And the WHo is under a tremendous amount of pressure right now.
>"Common sense"? I got bills to pay!

Starving has a 100 percent mortality rate.
Random people signing an internet petition is not cause to remove an international health expert. The only legitimate votes could come from doctors or foreign affairs/other experts
Most US domestic airlines are just providing travel credit with no cancellation or change fees. I had to cancel a month of business travel just now on several airlines and incurred no cost—I just have to use the credit in the next year which in my case is absolutely not an issue.
Yes, my wife is Chinese and unfortunately there is actually some truth to that comment. I've seen Chinese public toilets with piles of human excrement around them, because the stink was so bad inside people just did what they needed to do nearby. Animal markets can be truly noxious, and the conditions animals are kept in can be hard to believe.
+1 also UW's response has been awesome to see.
And I predict that within 10 years after that, they'll add emojis to their new standard.
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> what are your thoughts on having dedicated content writers - like technical writers or developer advocates - working on/owning the blog, vs "all engineers are explicitly encouraged to blog"?

I like this, and I think a good developer relations person who is prolific, sufficiently technical, and can get the tone right can be very valuable for building up a company's visibility. It's a good way to take 80% of the work of writing a post off the relevant engineer's plate and also produce great posts, because the person writing them is a professional writer.

We're small enough right now that we can do well enough with some ad hoc stuff, e.g. periodic slack posts to shake the tree. But this is something we discuss every now and then and the timing will be right at some point, as we scale.

It's easier to justify the cost of a full-time employee if your buyers are also primarily engineers. For someone like Stripe or Twilio, an active eng blog doubles as marketing.
I really hope your (or a similar) project takes off.

Modern web development desperately needs a framework that integrates well with technologies like SSG, Graphql and Nodejs in general, that ships with sane configuration defaults for all the involved layers.

This is important, since SSG/SPA hybrids solve a lot of frontend issues by default and Graphql is a very expressive protocol which helps to avoid tightly coupled data transformation logic on the frontend.

I'm currently very interested in Nodejs specifically since JS is a transpilation target for a lot of languages and WASM.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, that you find a solution for integrating the persistence layer nicely as well. A simple and reliable DB like SQLite could be a very good default, since now you are essentially just dealing with files.

I think database and ORM integration in a framework like yours is very tricky in general. It has to be flexible enough to serve different needs but also well integrated and easily deployable. Good luck with that!

Looking forward to try this stuff out and possibly provide further feedback.
Just cancel school for the rest of the year and give the kids the curriculum that would have been taught. The ones that want to learn and keep up will study, the others, probably wouldn't have gotten much out of it anyways.
If someone does the right thing for fear of public backlash, they still did the right thing.
He said, at a rally, about Democrat criticisms of the administration response:

'this is their new hoax'

That's pretty incoherent (criticisms may be untrue, but they're never a hoax), but strongly hints he thought the virus unimportant in the most charitable interpretation, or the threat a complete fabrication from democrats.

He then went on to lie about the number of cases in the country and the likely impact and said it was less serious than flu.

Trump's ignorance is going to kill a lot of people in the US.
> They didn't want a $400 locally knitted sweater, made from neighborhood sheep. They wanted a $40 sweater that was made as efficiently as possible, and $360 of change.

Except that the difference was never that large and never had to be that local. What happened was that they didn't want a $42 sweater made on the same continent over a $40 sweater made on the other side of the world, because it gave back $2 in change. But monoculture and lack of supply chain diversification was never not worth $2 -- the bill just doesn't come due until it does.

And this didn't happen on its own either. This was conscious policy across the board. The first world was content to impose e.g. pollution and labor regulations locally but not impose the same requirements on the manufacture of imported goods, with foreseeable consequences to where things are manufactured.

Meanwhile China wanted to grow through exports, so they adopted policies like currency devaluation that not only made American and European manufacturing uncompetitive but even manufacturing in other countries with lower labor costs, so that many goods are now produced only in China.

It's one thing when something is produced in China but not the United States when it's also produced in Mexico, Brazil, India, Turkey, etc. It's something else entirely to make the whole world dependent on one country. And customers didn't choose this, government policies did.
Maybe, but its actually really good at not firing when you scratch your head, which is probably more common than casually waving at your webcam ;)
donald is right smack in the middle of the most 'at risk' group for dying from this thing, so he could be felled by it before November.
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The reason people are trying to downplay H1N1 is because they hate the flu comparison. People understand the risks and accepted deaths, from the flu. That bothers the doom and gloom folks.
Unless that liability is worth more than the entire company it's not a good reason to cancel. Once the cancellations started nobody wants to be the one conference that isn't canceled.
Makes sense that a company that provides an operating system for billions of devices around the world takes some responsibility for any criminal actions taken on others that use said operating systems' potential exploits/bugs to harm other financially/personally/etc... Really cool to see an article written about it though. Makes you think that Microsoft are the good guys :P
They've been seeing more and more sponsors and presenters pull out in recent days. Better to cancel it and seem like you're doing the right thing than hold a poorly attended convention, get bad PR for doing so, and still risk infecting a large number of people.
You need to approach senior management, and press them on what their plan is.

Why aren't they already transitioning to remote work? Is there a timeline in place? What are their criteria about what would trigger WFH? What about employees with elderly family members at home? Do they have the necessary systems in place to support a fully remote staff?

It's very likely that management has simply avoided thinking about the topic entirely. If the employees press them for a concrete action plan, then that at least prompts them to start engaging in objective analysis.
Well, many of the largest exhibitors had already pulled out.
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech until you yell fire in a crowded theater. Pandemic related quarantines have been established as being constitutional in past rulings.
Can’t read without enabling trackers/fingerprinting
Another one of his articles is titled "The 12 Rules of Virality I Learned Building a Video App That Blew Up". Seems he's trying to include a bunch of hockey stick charts and levarage the virality of viruses.
The virus can still kill you no matter how 'free' you feel you are. I'm pretty sure dead people are much more freer than us as they don't have to think about any of these non-sense.
1. Get up and move at regular intervals. If you can, take a walk, preferably outside.

2. Start your day with something that wakes you up, even if it means you have to get up earlier.

3. Don't ignore your hygiene just because you're home--that's a recipe for lethargy.

4. Avoid caffeine, if possible. When you're stuck at home, it's harder to get over that tired feeling when the caffeine wears off. Since you won't be as active as normal, it'll also be harder to sleep at night.

5. Keep a consistent schedule; don't let your bedtime drift.

6. If you live with other people, make it clear that you're still at work from X in the morning until Y at night, and they should do their best to avoid distracting you. Noise-cancelling headphones help. Chores can be a great way to get some movement in while you're stuck at home, but plan to do them at specific times for set durations, rather than arbitrarily.

7. If you don't have a designated office, try relocating occasionally. Spend some time working in different rooms. As long as you're comfortable with a touchpad, you can use a laptop just about anywhere. You can even get a small folding table and move it around.

8. Try to get as much natural light as possible during the day.
Something such as "we should prioritize efforts in cities besides Seattle/New York as the virus has clearly spread beyond reasonable containment, yet can still be contained in Atlanta/Miami" could be reported as "U.S Government elects to leave the people of Seattle on their own."

Replace the cities or issue with anything you want. The point is, something has to be prioritized, and the ones who aren't prioritized could be seen as victimized.
It's made watching Sumo a very different experience. You can hear every breath. You can hear the swish of the bow in the ending ceremony. It has been quite interesting until Takayasu's injury today - hearing his howls of agony in a silent auditorium was heart wrenching.
Then stream classes and let kids who do have access to internet and technology do their courses online while still keeping the classes running in person, so you can limit the amount of people who need to congregate. No need to go Harrison Bergeron on the haves to make the have-nots feel less shitty.

Also, the state has emergency funds that would more than cover something like Chromebook purchases and subsidizing internet for a few months. Still wouldn't help the homeless students, but it would still make a sizeable dent in the amount of kids congregating and getting each other sick.

EDIT: Also poor schools and districts have HIGHER per pupil funding than wealthier ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_ep...
> I looked up your code because you don't know how to hide it and have made my own cloned app for some reason.
Nobody liked you in high school, I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

I really felt this.
Happened in an MLB game a few years ago due to violence in Baltimore. Eerie video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woP3cJxVR8Y
Societies have been driven by religion and spirituality for ages. Of course we have now been enlightened by science buts it's probably one of the challenges of culture to come up with an effective replacement. One that not only not contradicts scientific commonsense but that is also not considered as mumbo jumbo.

There's definitely a void left by the demise of religion. Also this leaves the question open whether that is not the reason have actually turned alcoholics ;)
I've seen a lot of the opposite: China is what you (as a country) think you are. For example, lots of people have criticised the US/the Trump Administration/the CDC for not developing a novel coronavirus test in December, including at least one comment in the other thread. This is not, of course, something the US could've done but China potentially could've if they were on the ball enough. There also seems to be a widespread belief that the number of confirmed cases in the US and other Western countries is simply a function of the number of people tested. This is true of the rise of confirmed cases in Wuhan but pretty much nowhere else (though that's not to say the numbers elsewhere are 100% accurate either). Some smart people have repeated this one, including the author of Signal. I think there were a few more I can't remember off-hand too.
I bricked my router trying to lock a door
So, Italy and China quarantined tens of millions of people... because they got freaked out by NPR? C'mon.
Where does the authority come from to ban public events, forcibly quarantine individuals against their consent come from? I.e. if this went to the supreme court, would this be upheld? This is private property. From what I can tell there is little evidence that there is a large health risk to most of the population.
I'm pretty sure you just made more people touch their face...
If your supply chain encompasses two countries then a disruption in either country will take you offline. If you keep everything in-house you only have to worry about one country.

You can also harden your supply chain by having multiple suppliers in different countries, so a loss of any one isn't an issue. For something like Covid-19 it's near impossible to avoid disruption, but for less-global outbreaks it can be a winning strategy.
You make a valid point. It's important to note that they weren't bragging though, they were trying to showcase why other companies should hire remotely:

"We ended up with over 1,200 applications for the programmer opening at Basecamp. If you’re having trouble attracting talent, feel free to copy our playbook: Hire remote, be explicit about pay, detail job exhaustively."
We also have influenza as an example of a possibility of "never."
I don’t know about the cruse ship, but it seems like it’s double counting a death in Australia on both the cruse ship and an Australian death. I would double check the totals.

As far as I can tell Australia has 3 deaths including 1 from the cruse ship. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-08/coronavirus-related-d...
Let's overcome this virus first? We normally don't do root cause analysis during an outage in IT do we?
You also have the right to not assemble.
I consider sugar to be by far my worst addiction, I can moderate on alcohol and pot with no issue, but with sugar I really need an all or nothing approach.