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How close are you to fulfilling those requirements? I am just asking, because there are quite a few German PaaS providers showing up now. So there seems to be a market. And it is a real problem when you try to do business with healthcare

Oh sh*t. I didn't read the website (only the newsletter). Thanks for posting, though. Should be helpful for others as well!

From a legal standpoint: Does this now comply with the EU (German?) data privacy laws? I was told the other day, that using Heroku was a No-No, because you are storing your customer data with a non-EU-compliant company outside the EU. With this, the data resides in the EU. Does this (magically) make my troubles go away?

Remarks: I am totally not a lawyer

In my humble opinion, the patient were not "unlucky" (which to me suggests that most would have faired much better on average), they were a very good representation of how the situation is/was (~10 years ago now).

In all the cases, not a single patient had been given CPR prior to our arrival. So right there, you can assume at least 5-10 minutes without any circulation. The (very rough) formula they taught us back then: every 1 minute without circulation -> 10% less chance to a successful CPR. When you go into cardiac arrest, you need CPR immediately or that's it.

In Germany the statistics at the time suggested roughly the following success rates:

  - < 3 % with no CPR prior to arrival of EMT/paramedic
  - ~ 20 % with immediate layman's CPR, fast emergency call, fast response
  - ~ 30 - 40% when EMTs where on scene during the event (immediate application of drugs, intubation, excellent ventilation, good CPR)
  - up to 70% when the patient went into cardiac arrest while in intensive care unit

Now, here's the thing: "Success" in all those cases means nothing more than 'Return Of Spontaneous Circulation' (ROSC). In layman's terms: the heart would start beating. That - of course - tells you next to nothing about brain damage.

The elephant in the room is, that when you end up being CPR'd in the street by the EMS after no circulation for 5 - 10 minutes, you better wish that you don't end up with ROSC. Because in all likelyhood you will (if you don't die after a few days in hospital / they kindly pull the plug) end with about as much brain activity as the chair you are sitting on right now.

Again: YMMV and I personally know a guy who was successfully resuscitated and became a paramedic after that. But I try to base life decisions on statistics and not anecdotes, so I personally prefer having a living will set up.

Yeah. It is basically a "think big"-story

I don't want to be overly mean, but just look at the statistics. Those cases are far and few between. I have myself CPRed more than 50 people in my previous career. For all I know not a single one was able to walk out of the hospital - and the majority was declared dead on the scene. YMMV based mainly on country (and hence willingness / ability of the general population to deliver quality CPR)

In most cases, when the patient "survives" this means that he is disabled (can not eat, can not walk, can not stand, can not do anything)

+1 for the effort. Interesting development

I find it very interesting, that there are such websites. I wonder whether it works, but I guess that if only one life is saved by a notice on a website, that is enough

thanks for the support :)

Sorry, I was raised in a country & time were we learned that "his" refers to both genders (and GLBT). That said I enjoy reading English articles with "her", just because it beats the so called "gender mainstreaming" that ruins the documents I have to read almost daily.

Just one tip from someone experienced in tutoring/training others (non-technical skills): Be very patient.

Whatever you might think how easy something is, your view is blurred by years of experience. A beginner will take far longer than you expect him to take for any given task

Interesting... They seem to crack down heavy-handed on companies that offer payment related to twitter. Is this about user experience or is this a harbinger of their upcoming monetization strategy?

As Bill Maher so eloquently put it: "Its horrible, but this time, let's not overreact, wallow, erect monuments to terrorism; let's handle it Israeli-Munich style" Source: https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/323951293506924544

Not so crazy, if you think about the fact that many bombs are remotely-triggered using a cell phone. Kill the network, switch off additional bombs.

I'm certainly not an expert, but a quick question: Does it have to be SF ? If you just want to learn coding, have you considered working at a company that combines what you know (aviation, physics of flight) with what you want to learn (software development)?

First think that comes to mind is Microsoft (Flight Simulator), but they are probably strongly in the camp of "University degree required". Anyways, I hope the general idea / different POV is of some help

Google Nose is AWESOME! Think of the possibilities. This technology has the chance to improve the lifes of thousands stressed with long-distance relationsships.

Man... this will revolutionize cyber-sex as we know it!

thanks for the cool explanation. That really filled in a few blanks in my understanding of the web.

Interesting. Isn't the website just telling to load the script from a Google server (which could count as 3rd party) and execute it?

Does this affect Google Analytics (or any analytics software for that matter)? if so: How would a webmaster deal with that?

Pretty awesome post and right to the point. Couldn't agree more to points 2 - 4. Regarding 5: Stripes == NCOs - right? Sorry, I'm in a different army

I would personally add: 1b) No matter how bad the situation, chances are that you and your comrades will crack jokes about it within 3 months. (Probably doesn't always apply, but certainly in regards to bootcamp/exercise)

Wholeheartedly agree. You can achieve much of the same outcome with less "drastic" behaviours.

Just remember one thing: war is a totally different environment from your everyday company (Yes, even different from YC-backed startups ;-).

There's a reason, why it is useful to have disciplined soldiers - it saves lives on the battlefield.

That's not to say, that you want drones. It just helps the group (not each individual soldier) if - at times - everyone just does what he/she is told to do.

Just tried it with my app on heroku and get an HTTP 404 "no such app" error.

Tried to add www.mydomain.com. to the domain list in the admin interface. Didn't work either stating "Domain is invalid".

Gna...

@patio11 has http://appointmentreminder.org and http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ He's based in Japan, but targets the US market.

He's got a blog at http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/

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Sacha Greif lives in Japan, too. http://sachagreif.com/

The true meaning of "opinionated software"...

I like the numerous examples in your article. They really help to drive the point home

Maybe I should get myself checked, but is anyone else thinking about the big opportunity here?

You wouldn't need more than your average crow bar to get into this thing. I bet they don't have a decent alarm system (if any).

Seems like a relatively low-risk, high-reward situation to me.

I specifically came to the comments section to post that same comment. Glad you did it for me :-)

Corollary, IPv6 is always only 5 years away from replacing IPv4

Oh... I see. Thanks for pointing that out.

That's just a wrong translation. Sorry for that. The German word is "Vertrag" - which can be translated as "contract" as well as "treaty".

EDIT 1: I'll update the FAQ regarding this.

EDIT 2: Then again... I won't, because I am no longer able to :-)

That is an excellent question. Thanks for asking it. !!!I am not a lawyer!!!

The contract reads:

"The Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry of Defense, the latter represented by The Bundeswehr University, Munich 85577 Neubiberg" (yada-yada-yada)

The contract is between a U.S. corporation and the federal government. It has to be legal, because the German Army uses some American Weaponry (e.g. the M82 sniper rifle).

And as stated in the FAQ: This has been done before - numerous times.