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UltimateFloofyon Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point?

physicians only have 10 minutes with their patients. How much time are you taking from them? On the rare chance they are looking to learn more about tech, they'll probably be going to health events where they're practically wined and dined to be there.

What city are you in? There must be a health tech meeting of some sort near you. I live in Austin and I run one with 400 members, but there are 5 others programming meetups all the time. pharma, billers, techs, and nurses shouldn't be forgotten either!

UltimateFloofyon US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink

do reporters not use spellcheck anymore? the number of spelling mistakes in that article was ridiculous.

UltimateFloofyon FAA K-12 Airport Design Challenge in Minecraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VppcLH0Mhs

The kids presenting IAD do a pretty good job breaking down the airport for their age! I'm impressed.

UltimateFloofyon Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year?

but healthtech is doing pretty well!

UltimateFloofyon Ask HN: Have you ever heard of users demonstrating against software?

the EHRs in the vision care space have been neglected even longer. At least Epic's is being worked on.

UltimateFloofyon From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate

"...extracting some simple pleasure from the execution of a task well done..." - Zima Blue from Love, Death + Robots

UltimateFloofyon Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)

I was being billed at > $300/hr when I first got out of school at 21 as consultant. 24 would make someone a senior consultant!

UltimateFloofyon List Of Adhesive Tapes

Agreed. it is lacking. Where is the stationary washi tape?

UltimateFloofyon Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option

No... but we've beamed a scribe into AWS!

UltimateFloofyon FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef

okja

UltimateFloofyon Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option

Hey! I'm one of those people. I'm building an Ophthalmology EMR. But I do have a question for you at your past job. At Curative were the labs/exams handled on site, or was it partnered with a lab to handle them?

UltimateFloofyon Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option

I'm building an EMR right now. Can I ask what sub-surgical field your partner works in?

UltimateFloofyon Show HN: No Trash Search

so you've used google programmable search to make googling better?

UltimateFloofyon Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources

Tesla raised 20.4B. Apple has almost 10X more sitting around in cash.

UltimateFloofyon The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a router from their ISP

The biggest problem with this argument is that if you live in a larger city, often times their time still equates to my time.

Anecdotally, I've had several friends take time off of work to let the repairman into their home often to reset or swap out the device. It means that they are forced to be without internet for the duration, and personally I've never had a repairman from a big cable company come within the agreed upon appointment window.

It is honestly faster, and more reliable to go to the nearest electronic store in a larger city and buy new hardware than it is to be cancelled on and wait for repairs that may or may not come.

UltimateFloofyon Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

This is true for most NOVA contractors. In 2010-2012, Accenture and KPMG was pretty new to Federal IT Auditing and most of their consultants had never done anything IT related in their lives.

It's ridiculous that accounting and tax firms like Arthur Andersen was able to rise out of Enron's scandal and were able to create catch-all IT divisions and win those contracts from the US government when they had no expertise.

UltimateFloofyon Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist

point 11 on part 2: a smooth transition of the global population to 2-3B.

Over how long a time-frame does Dr.Rees expect this to happen? Thanos only killed half the population. Mao only starved ~40M/50M.

He has no imagination for what could be with all the will and imagination of a generation faced with dire results and instead draws bleak resolutions that sound like the aftermath of a WW3.

UltimateFloofyon Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult

The data is consistent with most other bootcamps, though. There is a standard for reporting student outcomes here: https://cirr.org/data

Hack Reactor, now Galvanize, was one of the founding organizations of the CIRR, circa 2014: https://www.hackreactor.com/blog/tag/student+outcomes

UltimateFloofyon China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears

If you read Animal Farm, there's a reason why Orwell made the pigs the most clever leaders of the farm.

UltimateFloofyon Launch HN: Axdraft (YC W19) - Legal documents for startups in minutes

i thought yc funded something like this back in 2011/12 called clerky.

UltimateFloofyon Show HN: Hack Club Bank – A Bank for Student Hackers

Thats awesome! The debit card solution and 501(c)3 eligibility that hack club presents is genius and so often overlooked in fledgling youth sports and organizations. I hope that ground.work can find a way for fringe sports and teams to also get their organization finances in order as many sports businesses tend to focus only on the main priority sports. (I run an ultimate frisbee organization)

UltimateFloofyon Guy Says He's the First Person to Attempt Editing His DNA with CRISPR

I am all for self-experimentation, however, when it exposes risk to humanity, I think we should tread carefully. In the long run, will these genes or other self-experiments be introduced into the global genome with unintended consequences?

UltimateFloofyon Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

Even though react and angular and vue are different frameworks, they are all modern JS libraries and I would lump that data together instead of keeping javascript so fragmented in the data set.

UltimateFloofyon Launch HN: Station (YC W18) – One place for all your web apps

I know this seems petty, but I cannot see "Get Station" as the url. I continually read "gestation.com", which doesn't have quite the same connotation.

UltimateFloofyon There Are No Houses for Amazonians

With AOL closing up shop in NOVA, theres a huge real estate gap that Amazon might be over to take over too on top of all the other speculative talk Northern VA already offers. I'm sure FFX County / Loudoun will place an appealing bid.

UltimateFloofyon Hacking Voting Machines at Defcon

Very nice. Voter McVoteyFace deserves an upvote.

UltimateFloofyon The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber – It’s Making Us More ‘Meta-Ignorant’

Ah, Dunning-Kruger at scale; summing up populism as a startup.

UltimateFloofyon Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

Should probably remove famo.us as a resource. They've rebranded a little while ago.