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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 are better as a handout that people can read/annotate as they want.

This was part of a summer REU and focused on academic talks, and this all falls apart in a remote setting - but I think there are ways to capture the essence of this style on Zoom.

Here’s a great explainer about what Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature measures: https://youtu.be/S7X4DxjO0Qk

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 see the argument for the intra-enterprise work being valuable, but at the edge I'm less convinced.

Another classic Seinfeld plot becomes irrelevant.

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.

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.

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 with as few minds as possible". Brook's attributes the idea to Harlan Mill's paper "Chief programmer teams, principles, and procedures" - which I can't find online, but I'd be curious how Mills treats the analogy.

If I were to invest $100 in some allocation of Coinbase stock and Bitcoin - what should the ratio be?

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 proof of concept is now AWS MSK in production.

Healthcare has long been the same way, HL7 was paywalled ($1000+/yr membership until 2012).X12 is still in the thousands for membership.

I find it frustrating that Merlin and eBird don't integrate as well as one would expect

The industry more broadly is moving towards OAuth.

https://bluebutton.cms.gov/

I wonder how long it will take the average Bay Area commuter to find an adversarial driving pattern for this.

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.

Possibly one of the best Nova titles ever - "Rat Attack" follows this phenomenon: https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-rat-attack/

"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.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796926

I love small concise mini-syllabi’s like this. Just give me the big papers and set some context.

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 produced from the git log were statistics about churn (how often you touch the same code), and new code vs. refactoring vs. bug fixing.

Overall, I thought they handled the "you can't make metrics for developers" type objections fairly well. To get everyone on the dev team engaged and thinking about their metrics seemed like too big of a hurdle given the cost per seat of GitPrime.

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 mission of increasing the GDP of the internet.

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 the game has come a long way.

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Star%20Citizen

Animal was removed from the base Patient resource spec in r4.

May be of interest to some: In recent years healthcare has adopted centralized PKI in the Direct project. https://www.directtrust.org/

As always a great story. The part about Milton Bradley mass producing and eventually exploiting Froebel’s gifts will stick with me.

Here's Google's MLLP code: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/mllp

Part of the problem with UX is also the fact that large customizable systems like this push a lot of the "design" down to the IT staff responsible for maintaining the software.

"Trains not boats" - my new startup mantra

I embraced airpods early because I had the opposite problem: my corded headphones would get caught by a dog leash and pull my $1000 phone out of my pocket.

$80 for the standalone case. $200 for a new set.

Option 2 can involve working remotely, working for a Midwest startup, etc. if kids or retirement aren't appealing.

I loved staying in love hotels when a hostel was not convenient. A king size bed and all you can watch Starcraft, usually with a PC Cafe next door (breakfast, lunch, dinner).