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I have some thoughts about regret in life, which might be counterintuitive. You might have heard of Jeff Bezos making the decision to start Amazon as a part of regret-minimization decision making. For him, there would’ve been a certain regret of not attempting Amazon, but there wouldn’t be as much regret if he tried and it didn’t work out. From his point of view, minimizing the regret is to minimize the difference between the best he coul....
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Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....
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Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....
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Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....
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Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful. I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. Link: My Feedly RSS Feed Feedly RSS feed subscription management Features: Keyword alerts. Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url. Notat....
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Shipping a bug-free feature is always important in every release. To ensure this, we do quality analysis(QA) at various points of the…
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Engineers Overseas for SMART and FHIR (FHIR DevDays 2016)
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engineering.cerner.com
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8 years ago
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In a previous post, we discussed the need to provide education around our ecosystem and implementation of the FHIRⓇ and SMARTⓇ standards for developers and how we did so at our annual Cerner Health Conference. That same week, we were also a part of FHIR DevDays, which included a track entitled “Apps in the EHR.” We worked alongside track participants who were seeking to integrate their apps in a variety of EHRs, including Cerner.
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The 80s and 90s was a period of intense development in the computer hardware and software worlds. On the hardware side, processors started to become much more powerful, and the word on the streets was that RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) was going to be the way of the future. Powerful RISC platforms emerged during this time, including Sun Microsystems SPARC, HP PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, IBM PowerPC, and the DEC Alpha - these platforms w..
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The 80s and 90s was a period of intense development in the computer hardware and software worlds. On the hardware side, processors started to become much more powerful, and the word on the streets was that RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) was going to be the way of the future. Powerful RISC platforms emerged during this time, including Sun Microsystems SPARC, HP PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, IBM PowerPC, and the DEC Alpha - these platforms w..
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This is almost a live recap of my tour of South-east Asia (and Hong Kong) this month (September 2017) and will be updated as things chug along. There's also a…
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In this post we will understand what it means to say “this song has a lot of high frequencies”, then hunt and capture the waveform that allows us to say this! Some Python code will be used, but understanding it is not necessary. Footnotes are more technically advanced. The x coordinate of the circle… is frequency?! […]
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I was lucky enough to attend my first meetup in Poland this month: Agile Poznan . The talk was on Systems Thinking , a topic that bored me in college but fascinated me when I entered the real world. Applying systems thinking can reveal the origins behind events and behaviors we see every day. Using this clarity can make you a better software developer, and a better asset to your organisation in general. Here are some of my insights from....
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I’m all about consistency, particularly when it comes to my daily routine . To confirm my own biases, I found some research that agrees with the idea that consistency is good. For example, one study suggests that people with regular routines tend to sleep better, and another study of young children found that regular bedtimes contributed to less obesity and better “emotional self-regulation”. I generally like the idea of sleeping..
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I’m all about consistency, particularly when it comes to my daily routine . To confirm my own biases, I found some research that agrees with the idea that consistency is good. For example, one study suggests that people with regular routines tend to sleep better, and another study of young children found that regular bedtimes contributed to less obesity and better “emotional self-regulation”. I generally like the idea of sleeping..
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Managing connections in Postgres is a topic that seems to come up several times a week in conversations. I’ve written some about scaling your connections and the right approach when you truly need a high level of connections, which is to use a connection pooler like pgBouncer. But what do you do before that point and how can you better track what is going on with your connections in Postgres? Postgres under the covers has a lot of metadat....
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Managing connections in Postgres is a topic that seems to come up several times a week in conversations. I’ve written some about scaling your connections and the right approach when you truly need a high level of connections, which is to use a connection pooler like pgBouncer. But what do you do before that point and how can you better track what is going on with your connections in Postgres? Postgres under the covers has a lot of metadat....
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Mens et Manus " (latin for "Mind and Hand") is the official motto of MIT . Lots of schools have Latin mottoes, and they are usually pretty bland. But mens et manus was — and still is — a radical social statement. It says that knowing and doing
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365 Drawings The sketchbooks shown below are the result of doing one drawing from memory every day for a year, a project I finished this month. A year's worth of Daily Compositions This drawing practice was based on the Daily Composition, which, as I explained last January, is an exercise from The Natural Way to Draw , by Kimon Nicolaïdes (published posthumously in 1941). The requirements for this exercise are as follow....
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365 Drawings The sketchbooks shown below are the result of doing one drawing from memory every day for a year, a project I finished this month. A year's worth of Daily Compositions This drawing practice was based on the Daily Composition, which, as I explained last January, is an exercise from The Natural Way to Draw , by Kimon Nicolaïdes (published posthumously in 1941). The requirements for this exercise are as follow....
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I'm afraid I once again don't have a Friday Q&A for you today, but I wrote up the best new features in Swift 4 for the Plausible Labs blog, which is almost as good. Check it out over there! (Read More)
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The Best New Features in Swift 4 The Best New Features in Swift 4 I'm afraid I once again don't have a Friday Q&A for you today, but I wrote up the best new features in Swift 4 for the Plausible Labs blog, which is almost as good. Check it out over there!
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At the end of August 2017, ten students set foot in the trivago headquarters in Düsseldorf to be part of the first ever trivago Tech Camp. Two weeks were packed with real-world challenges, guest lectures, Q&A sessions, and tons of other opportunities to learn. In the end, a lot of working software was delivered.
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At the end of August 2017, ten students set foot in the trivago headquarters in Düsseldorf to be part of the first ever trivago Tech Camp. Two weeks were packed with real-world challenges, guest lectures, Q&A sessions, and tons of other opportunities to learn. In the end, a lot of working software was delivered.
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I had a simple dream. A dream of embedding videos in a web page without using third party services such as youtube or vimeo. For a while it seemed that I found the solution: using ffmpeg to convert the source videos to highly optimized h264 mp4 files. I wrote about my process before. The drawback is, that you only get one quality setting. Use a high bitrate and the video will load slowly or stutter on slow connections. Use a low bitrate a....
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You’ve heard it a million times: snaps bundle their dependencies. People seem to understand and accept the technical aspects of this, but today I want to talk about a more philosophical aspect. If you’re used to more traditional packaging, then you’re used to each project being standalone, e.g. Apache is its own package, with its own configuration; PHP is its own package, with its own configuration; and so on. As you begin creating a snap, ..
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About PyData I recently got an opportunity to speak at the PyData, Delhi. PyData is a tech group, with chapters in New Delhi and other…
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There was a discussion recently among the Bettes about the phrase ‘Latin-type‘ when Sahar Afshar asked the question of what would be a good alternative to the…
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Use Mutually Understandable Names for Priorities in Project Management Tools
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www.databasesandlife.com
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8 years ago
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So today I got access to a customer’s new JIRA task management system. Unsurprisingly, every task has a field priority , from highest , high , low etc. It’s understandable that tasks might be sorted by urgency, to communicate that the most urgent stuff should be done first. But these aren’t good names. I have had the following experience at various previous customers: Fundamentally a task management system is about communication be..
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There is no better way to end summer than with ShipIt Day! We kicked off our ninth ShipIt Day on August 10th, with more than 75 Cerner associates signed up. Nineteen different teams worked for 24 hours straight to complete their projects. For those unfamiliar with the event, ShipIt Day is a 24 hour hackathon for internal associates to create something innovative, usable, and value-adding. This was the second ShipIt held at our new Innovatio..
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Context I’m using Hugo to generate a JSON feed for images + meta data. Part of the JSON is showing all the images in a directory. So: static |__color |__blue |__blue_close_1.jpg |__blue_far_1.jpg |__green |__green_close_1.jpg |__green_far_2.jpg To build a JSON template that lists the .jpg files in each directory, I need to write a generic readDir statement, which wasn’t possible by usual means. E.G these DO NOT work: {{ $colorDir..
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