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Final score: 4.0 :/

But pretty creative game. Thanks for sharing!

I had an out of network emergency room visit with a kidney stone once while covered by a $1,000/month UHC platinum plan. When the bills arrived I stupidly paid them thinking it’d be easier to just file the claim for reimbursement from UHC on my own. After two years of submitting forms, exchanging letters, and hours of phone calls, I just gave up. It’s hard for me to consider their business as anything but an outright scam.

For Rails apps, you can do this using the ActiveJob interface via

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

Had it in production for about a quarter and it’s worked well.

Do you use any of the add-on modules?

I get mild carpal tunnel symptoms when working straight on my Macbook, so I bought a Kinesis Freestyle Pro. The split and tenting are great and do the trick for my wrists but it's got a different layout than the MacBook. And a lot more keys than I need. It's large and a hassle to pack up and take with me.

Why does no one build a split keyboard that has the exact same layout as a MacBook? I feel like that would be my holy grail. I don't even care about mechanical switches (I know, blasphemy!)

I have a good friend who is a hygienist for two dentists. One is completely inept and the other an outright scammer.

The inept guy generates business by doing such a poor job with fillings that crowns and root canals are always eventually needed. And he does such a poor job with those that bridges and implants are then needed. He's a master bullshitter and most patients trust him (a few catch on, and a few have sued). My friend keeps records for the lawsuits, covers her own butt, and discreetly encourages some patients to go elsewhere.

The fraudster puts everyone on "perio" schedules (cleanings every 3 months instead of 6) whether they need it or not. And also bills insurance for treatment he didn't do. His actual dental skills are decent, however.

We laypeople assume we can trust these "experts" with degrees and white coats when we really have no clue if what they're doing is legit.

Next time you get your teeth cleaned, ask the hygienist if they themselves (or their family -- kids, parents) use the dentist you're about to see. My friends says that this is the question with the most valuable answer. She wouldn't let either guy within 100 miles of her teeth or her kids' and will happily tell people where she goes if they ask.

This is assuming the hygienist isn't crooked too. In the US, hygienists are typically paid hourly but with "production" bonuses, meaning they get a cut of the dentists fees for treatment beyond cleaning. So beware that they're incentivized to do more treatment than necessary too. In my friend's case, the bonuses are a small %, so it's not a huge incentive.

She stays because they pay well, give her the hours she needs as a single mom, and likes her co-workers. But the patient care and outcomes do take moral toll on her.

Damn. I haven’t read much of The Athletic (don’t have that subscription level) but I’ve enjoyed NYT sports coverage for forever.

They always seemed to have interesting, subtle, and original takes on whatever they were covering. More “literary” than your typical ESPN or other major network coverage.

Down for me on the US West Coast for 9 hours now.

Love the service and it's been rock solid for over a decade for me.

I do understand the concern with the lack communication with this outage, however. It's a bit of an organizational/leadership red flag when a crucial service business like this doesn't communicate with its customers when things go south.

Yes. While it’s less common, I’ve seen orgs struggle because they didn’t have enough imagination.

Every feature is done quick’n’dirty and eventually you have people whose full time job is to respond to customer complaints and fix data straight in the production database.

Depending on what else is going on in my life, I’ll consume HN just once a week via

https://hackernewsletter.com/

Not sure if they support Poland, but https://www.avodocs.com/

US ski patroller here, this is happening via Apple Watches here too. Not nearly as many as in the article, though. Couple times per month per resort.

Never worked with them but I have with a contractor who had good things to say: https://www.a.team/

Another route is to apply for full time jobs and ask early in the process if they’ll consider hiring you as a contractor. Give your honest reasons why you want to go this route. If they continue with the interview process, knock their socks off so they can’t afford not to use you at whatever terms you want.

I understood "infant amnesia" but wondered how far back my kids could remember when they were little. As soon as they could start to communicate with words (around 12 months?) I asked both kids about being born, and being in mommy's belly. They both gave descriptions I'd call accurate! "Wimming" my son said, meaning swimming inside of mommy's belly. And my daughter said "coooold!" when I ask if she remembered coming out of mommy's belly.

I remember thinking "Holy shit, they remember it all."

Don’t forget that the flavors and textures will also be optimized along the way. It will taste better to more people than animal meat.

I downloaded and installed the first “browser” (what a weird name) to see what the hype about “hypertext” (sounds sci-fi!) was all about.

It was a page of text where some words were underlined and blue. And if you clicked on a blue word, it would jump you to a new page before you were even finished reading the first page!

I remember thinking how dumb that was and must be for people with short attention spans. Uninstall and move on. This WWW thing is going nowhere…

Yeah, I hear ya... of course there are degrees of in-between. In the article and the comments here, however, the tone of the criticisms of this guy and his ideas (e.g. "managed a few good years of self-promotion") seem weirdly personal and harsh.

That may be my bias as a very casual reader who isn't particularly invested in linguistic theories. (I certainly like Chomsky's social/political criticisms.)

A young missionary spends several decades living among and learning the language of a remote Amazon tribe.

He finds that his interest in languages and linguistics exceeds that of spreading Christianity and makes a career change.

Then, either

A) He realizes that he’s the only one who speaks this language and concocts a scheme to seek fame and fortune by falsely claiming it contradicts the leading theory of linguistics because no one can prove him wrong. Mwahaha!

Or

B) As he learns about linguistic theories, he realizes that the language he learned as a missionary contradicts the leading theory of linguistics. This is academically interesting, so he writes a paper and gives talks describing what he found.

While A is certainly possible, it seems B is more likely.

And if iTerm2 is a game changer for you, consider that it's written and maintained by one guy. Throw him a couple bucks!

https://www.patreon.com/gnachman/membership

Darn, I use YouTube as a quick communication channel to users of an app I maintain. I’ll throw up a video to show a new feature or that something has changed. Sometimes I answer single tech support questions with a short video. That’ll be lame if ads start showing up.

I guess I’m free to host my own videos...

The apartment gem enables multi-tenant Rails apps using the Postgres schemas approach described by others here.

It’s slightly clunky in that the public, shared schema tables, say, the one that holds the list of tenants, exists in every schema — they’re just empty.

I rolled my own based on apartment that has one shared public schema, and a schema for each tenant. Works well.

Good luck. Just wanted to chime in that my Dad had similar (albeit milder than yours) issues and ran across the Norman Parathyroid Center website while researching his problems. He had surgery there about 6 weeks ago and indeed they found and removed a dime sized tumor.

He has high praise for the docs there. And he’s had an excellent recovery. Energy and alertness has returned full force! Hope your results are similar.

Love this. What I've seen lately, as a contractor at several different companies, is inexperienced devs getting a very long way building apps without knowing what's going on with their database under the hood. That's a testament to the value of ORMS.

It's common, then, that the low hanging fruit for a contractor coming in to improve performance is to optimize queries and/or introduce triggers, views, and stored procedures. I've found that devs are scared of plain old SQL but the ones who know their ORM well can learn SQL easily with a little nudge and some guidance.

Do you mute the announcers? They're the ones constructing the narrative. And of course, the replays and camera angles are a huge part of the production too. So yes, it has changed with more technology: the virtual l.o.s. and 1st down lines, better slo-mo, more cameras. It's all part of the package to tell the story.

"...there may be no activity that draws closer public scrutiny that the public knows less about"

I agree that this quote may be a bit hyperbolic given, say, politics and Hollywood. But otherwise, the article is spot on.

I played football through high school and what television repackages and sells is a manufactured narrative based on a tiny sliver of the game. I loved playing the game, and I enjoy watching games on TV. There is very little overlap in the way one engages with the sport between those two experiences.

While playing, and for years afterwards, I couldn't understand why people watched it on TV. Eventually, though, I started to understand and enjoy the TV version. Decades later, I read some pieces by Nate Jackson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Jackson) which pulled me back into the player mindset and the thesis of this article was stark and obvious once again.

I've been serving up a http://pimen.to sandwich since the late 90's.

MarmosetMusic.com | Portland, OR | Jr. - Mid Ruby & Javascript Developer | Full Time | Onsite

Marmoset connects bands and composers with filmmakers and facilitates the creation and licensing of scores and soundtracks.

We're a 50ish person company with a dev team of 6. All onsite in Portland, OR. We build and maintain a public website to sell music as well as handle all of the internal business (CRM and accounting) needs. Our stack is Rails on Heroku, Postgres, Backbone, React, and a variety of AWS services.

You'll be joining a small team with great chemistry and interesting work. You'll learn a lot about our domain (the music and film industries) and level-up as a developer in a supportive environment.

Relocation offered.

More details: https://journal.marmosetmusic.com/hiring/2017

You never forget your first! SoundEdit16: https://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/2247/sounde...

MarmosetMusic.com | Portland, OR | Jr. - Mid Ruby & Javascript Developer | Full Time | Onsite

Marmoset connects bands and composers with filmmakers and facilitates the creation and licensing of scores and soundtracks.

We're a 50ish person company with a dev team of 6. All onsite in Portland, OR. We build and maintain a public website to sell music as well as handle all of the internal business (CRM and accounting) needs. Our stack is Rails on Heroku, Postgres, Backbone, React, and a variety of AWS services.

You'll be joining a small team with great chemistry and interesting work. You'll learn a lot about our domain (the music and film industries) and level-up as a developer in a supportive environment.

Relocation offered.

More details: https://journal.marmosetmusic.com/hiring/2017

My dad is 81 and started having hearing loss a few years ago. He just sent me a pic showing the degree to which he was able to shrink his DIY hearing aid once he settled on the circuit design:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4lOwfrVJ3bfRWkEm1

(Stereo mics and amp with two-channel parametric EQ on each side. About 6" wide and runs on two 9v batteries, if you're curious!)

He took it to a Bose showroom to compare it to their Hearphones. All (Bose people included) agreed that his amp and EQ was superior. Cost for parts is ~$200. He's had a lot of fun building them for himself and his friends.