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by nwhatt 2y ago
I once had a great presentation about this very topic! The presenter gave us both the Tufte book and a detailed handout. The idea is that you use the PowerPoint like you would an overhead projector, details that would otherwise be on slides
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US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack(techcrunch.com)
6 points by nwhatt 3y ago|0 comments
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by nwhatt 4y ago
Here’s a great explainer about what Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature measures: https://youtu.be/S7X4DxjO0Qk
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by nwhatt 5y ago
It's not really clear if this advice is for within the enterprise (a company that maintains so many systems they spend millions to integrate them) or at the edge (a company that needs to integrate with multiple third parties). I can se
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by nwhatt 5y ago
Another classic Seinfeld plot becomes irrelevant.
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by nwhatt 5y ago
Minor nitpick: sign in with Google and Facebook don’t use SAML, they use OAuth and OpenID Connect. Leading with those as an example undermines the authors later points.
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by nwhatt 5y ago
Very cool idea. I recently gave one pass at a Jira CSV import and went with the API instead. Excel is the ultimate no-code solution.
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by nwhatt 5y ago
Mythical Man-Month isn't trying to say "surgical teams work well - let's apply that approach to software". Instead, it's an analogy to explore Fred Brook's thoughts on 10x programmers and "building systems
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Associate to Senior Software Engineer(reddit.com)
1 points by nwhatt 5y ago|1 comments
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Vulcano Volcano(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by nwhatt 5y ago|0 comments
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by nwhatt 5y ago
If I were to invest $100 in some allocation of Coinbase stock and Bitcoin - what should the ratio be?
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by nwhatt 6y ago
I think you're pointing out the double-edged sword that is Docker; it's very easy to run and experiment with new technologies, even ones you might not be organizationally ready for. The "local" kafka that you used for a
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by nwhatt 6y ago
Healthcare has long been the same way, HL7 was paywalled ($1000+/yr membership until 2012).X12 is still in the thousands for membership.
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by nwhatt 6y ago
I find it frustrating that Merlin and eBird don't integrate as well as one would expect
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by nwhatt 7y ago
The industry more broadly is moving towards OAuth. https://bluebutton.cms.gov/
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by nwhatt 7y ago
I wonder how long it will take the average Bay Area commuter to find an adversarial driving pattern for this.
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On Pair Programming(martinfowler.com)
4 points by nwhatt 7y ago|0 comments
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by nwhatt 7y ago
Where do you see that coming? If anything we will see HIPAA stay as-is and get things like CCPA to deal with as well.
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by nwhatt 7y ago
Possibly one of the best Nova titles ever - "Rat Attack" follows this phenomenon: https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-rat-attack/
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by nwhatt 7y ago
"I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras." - Alan Kay With Alan Kay putting it into context here: https://news.yc
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by nwhatt 7y ago
I love small concise mini-syllabi’s like this. Just give me the big papers and set some context.
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by nwhatt 7y ago
I did a trial in 2018 and liked the product a lot. There were some simple metrics like "does a developer commit code every business day" and "how long do your PRs sit waiting for review". Other more complex things they p
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by nwhatt 7y ago
This is a great sentence: > We are doing this to situate product development closer to our customers, improve our ability to tap the 99.74% of talented engineers living outside the metro areas of our first four hubs, and further our miss
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by nwhatt 7y ago
I'll peek at people playing star citizen on Twitch from time to time. It seems like the game crashes a lot, and it takes forever to get into actual action (like getting your ship and leaving the atmosphere takes like 10+ minutes), but
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by nwhatt 7y ago
Animal was removed from the base Patient resource spec in r4.
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by nwhatt 7y ago
May be of interest to some: In recent years healthcare has adopted centralized PKI in the Direct project. https://www.directtrust.org/
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FTC Charges Surescripts with Illegal Monopolization of E-Prescription Markets(ftc.gov)
3 points by nwhatt 7y ago|1 comments
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by nwhatt 7y ago
As always a great story. The part about Milton Bradley mass producing and eventually exploiting Froebel’s gifts will stick with me.
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by nwhatt 7y ago
Here's Google's MLLP code: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/mllp
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The bizarre story of the L.A. dad who exposed the college admissions scandal(latimes.com)
35 points by nwhatt 7y ago|1 comments

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