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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by closeparen »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #264
gnur wrote: post #26

Container orchestrators becoming mainstream is something I'm very excited about. Tools like DC/OS, Nomad, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm Mode, Triton, Rancher make it so much easier to have fast development cycles. Last week I went from idea, to concept, to deployed in production in a single day. And it is automatically kept available, restarted if it fails, traffic is routed correctly, other services can discover it, the…

Honest question: this seems like you are making your own PAAS that you need to take care of, why not just use Heroku, etc?

The new development is that the software to run your own Heroku is becoming open source and easy to operate.

From an "I just want to get my app deployed" perspective it may still be best to just use Heroku. But from a "new developments in the field" perspective, the fact that I can rent a few machines and have my own Heroku microcosm for small declining effort is pretty cool.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by bootload »

RileyKyeden wrote: post #69

I do electronic music. The rise of platforms like Bandcamp and Patreon, and the abundance of high quality free/inexpensive tools and guides is raising the bar for quality in independent music, and making it easier for more people to get paid in whatever niches they prefer (vs. going for a mass audience).

"The rise of platforms like Bandcamp and Patreon, and the abundance of high quality free/inexpensive tools and guides is raising the bar for quality in independent music"

No easy solution here, what is the ^Bandcamp of concert venues^? [0] Is there a venue problem of, "Where do you play?"

[0] I know the solution is a political one due to land usage, sound restrictions and venue size.

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bootload wrote: post #282
RileyKyeden wrote: post #69

I do electronic music. The rise of platforms like Bandcamp and Patreon, and the abundance of high quality free/inexpensive tools and guides is raising the bar for quality in independent music, and making it easier for more people to get paid in whatever niches they prefer (vs. going for a mass audience).

"The rise of platforms like Bandcamp and Patreon, and the abundance of high quality free/inexpensive tools and guides is raising the bar for quality in independent music" No easy solution here, what is the ^Bandcamp of concert venues^? [0] Is there a venue problem of, "Where do you play?" [0] I know the solution is a political one due to land usage, sound restrictions and venue size.

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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by dorianm »

cridenour wrote: post #211
aabajian wrote: post #110

I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…

As someone who just struggled through writing a DICOM parser, _standardized_ doesn't always mean the same. For more examples, see RETS in the real estate world :)

For those curious:

- Some RETS recorded requests/responses: https://github.com/estately/rets/blob/master/test/vcr_casset...

(Basically some XML-based (SOAP?), cookie + authorization, that seems very ASP.net / Windows Server centric)

- DICOM ("It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM

It's basically how to imaging devices communicate and store the images.

Image examples: http://www.osirix-viewer.com/resources/dicom-image-library/

A video of what a doctor would see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prb5lcR8Jqw

TCP-based protocol in Wireshark: https://wiki.wireshark.org/Protocols/dicom

I wrote a little .dcm to .jpg based on ruby-dicom BTW: https://gist.github.com/Dorian/9e3eb5891b49926c15a05c641ffef...

- PACS seems just like a database model basically http://mehmetsen80.github.io/EasyPACS/

It's the server that is gonna give the info to the doctors.

It's interesting how there seems to be only one popular viewer: OsiriX

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Post by dcw303 »

chrisguitarguy wrote: post #280

Advertising. Definitely first party data for targeting. An advertiser takes some data from its CRM, sends it to the big social sites and google, and then uses the list to target those folks specifically or create look-a-likes. Actual cross device targeting (because people are logged in), extremely personalized and relevant. This is coupled with a move away from cookies[0]. 0. https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/01/ma…

If the CRM has your purchase history, does this solve the problem of targeting products on users who have already purchased it?

Because I am really sick of Google serving me ads for stuff I recently searched for and subsequently bought.

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Post by pault »

onion2k wrote: post #19

My field is web development, and, to be honest, the most exciting thing going on is that more people are starting to complain about the complexity of development. Hopefully this will lead to people slowing down and learning how to write better web software. As an example, one survey ( https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-... ) put the number of developers who don't use any test tools at almost…

I think the most exciting trend in web development is the rise in popularity of functional programming styles in front-end frameworks.

This makes the complexity problem much easier to solve, as the code is (should be) less likely to cause an unanticipated mutated state which can't be easily tested for.

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Post by arvinsim »

amelius wrote: post #275
jdormit wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google still is! Progressive web apps now have the ability to be installed "natively" on Android devices [0], meaning they show up in the app drawer like any other app rather than being limited to a home screen icon. I think these are the future. Once they catch on with mainstream consumers, native apps won't stand a chance against the convenience of simply visiting a website to install/use. Plus, on the developer en…

That sounds absolutely fabulous! But do you think that Apple would embrace this technology, given that e.g. their app-store is generating lots of revenue?

Asking the right question. And that's not sarcasm.

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Post by lisivka »

devwastaken wrote: post #70
lisivka wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why you expect that junior developer (someone with very little or no development experience) will use a test tool or any other development technique? I expect that junior developer in software field should be able to program only.

>Why you expect that junior developer (someone with very little or no development experience) I don't think thats the definition of a junior developer. Test tools are apart of building software, you should be hiring devs that have created projects that use tests of some sort, if not with the technology you're using. >I expect that junior developer in software field should be able to program only. I don't know how you…

Development and programming require different skills.

Developer need to know development cycle, automated testing, continuous integration, software life cycle, ticketing systems, source control systems, branching and merging, cooperating, etc.

Programmer need to know programming languages, patterns, algorithms, computer internals, effectiveness, profiling, debugging, etc.

Junior developer (in software filed)) has no or little experience in development, so junior developer is almost equal to a programmer, which causes lot of confusion.

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Post by allanmacgregor »

pault wrote: post #286
onion2k wrote: post #19

My field is web development, and, to be honest, the most exciting thing going on is that more people are starting to complain about the complexity of development. Hopefully this will lead to people slowing down and learning how to write better web software. As an example, one survey ( https://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2016-... ) put the number of developers who don't use any test tools at almost…

I think the most exciting trend in web development is the rise in popularity of functional programming styles in front-end frameworks. This makes the complexity problem much easier to solve, as the code is (should be) less likely to cause an unanticipated mutated state which can't be easily tested for.

Is not only the front end the backend is also getting a fair bit of traction.

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Post by lisivka »

intrasight wrote: post #193
nxc18 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computer Science has absolutely nothing to do with software testing. Your software engineering classes will teach students about unit tests, but not much more. If by 'testing' you really mean 'unit testing', as I suspect most junior engineers who claim testing experience do, then hope is already lost. The one saving grace is that there is enough churn in webdev that nothing lasts long enough to reveal how fragile it…

Not if they take a good class in Test-driven development (TDD) - which I would recommend to students. The "science" behind it will outlive the practice churn.

Of course, if the will take a good class in test driven DEVELOPMENT, they will be developers. Development (problem solving with goal to create and support a product) is not same as programming (creating instruction for computer to do something).
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