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

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Post by kayman »

epmatsw wrote: post #166
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…

When I looked at HL7 a few years back, it was standardized on in the most technical sense and was basically a big bag of hurt. Epic made a big chunk of their money just charging people to build interfaces over various PACS (and other) systems. Has that changed recently?

HL7 has matured even more now. The linear evolution from HL7 v2 to HL7 v3 did not win the day. Most are now moving to https://www.hl7.org/fhir/

Main issue is with HL7 is not technical. From a business point of view, the incentive to cooperate with other systems via HL7 means another reason for a department to adopt a system other than yours.

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Post by dang »

uranian wrote: post #187

Most annoying is the need to write in ES6/Babel today, and all these js hipsters that really believe this is the future of web development. I totally hate Babel with it's dozens of Webpack patches/plugins to make it work. Oh, and don't forget your (Airbnb style) linter if you want to be politically correct. No one needs Babel to write stellar code IMHO. Unfortunately it is not about the quality of the code you write,…

> note: I expect serious down votes as opposing Babel is almost a serious crime nowadays and proves my unlimited stupidity.

This breaks the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Please don't.

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

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

dualogy wrote: post #201
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #141

I'm really pumped about this open source tool project I've started which promises to join Lean Startup/Hypothesis-Driven Development and DevOps. Enter everything only once, have it available wherever it's needed. Analysis has always been an area that the tech community has lacked, ever since it was overdone back in the days of structured programming. It's really cool to bring back a bit of structured analysis as just…

> which promises to join Lean Startup/Hypothesis-Driven Development and DevOps Finding this tricky to parse, got a link or repo?

Still working on the elevator pitch. Unfortunately it's not as obvious as something like "Facebook for cats!" (Although I think it will be much more useful)

The general idea is to be able to have informal, unstructured business conversations, take those conversations and type extremely brief, semi-structured (tagged) notes, and have those notes "compile" out to various places throughout the organization where they might be needed. One way to think of it is Requirements/Use Cases/User Stories without the rigor. (Or rather without the rigor and onerous BS folks constantly seem to be always adding around them)

Here's the repo. There's also a PDF with details of the tagging language I can send if you're interested. Ping me.

https://github.com/DanielBMarkham/easyam

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

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Post by dandare »

jstimpfle wrote: post #230
dandare wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it just a fad? How usable and readable is the brutalist design? Or what are you trying to maximise other than being different?

A fad? Don't you see a problem with many of today's websites? Both from a developer's and a user's perspective.

B specific. Answer the question above, name the problem you have on mind and tell us how is brutalism solving that problem.

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

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Post by RobertoG »

tyingq wrote: post #49
rrrhys wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is going to sound really naive... Isn't that just a website?

I'm curious about the "just a website" bit as well. It's slow going, but new features like service workers, web workers, web sockets, webrtc, seem to be closing the gap between "website" and app. Is there some point where websites start to significantly displace apps?

"Is there some point where websites start to significantly displace apps?"

It seems to me that this is already slowly happening and this instant app thing is the reaction. After all, Google would lost the control if everybody started to use the browser.

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

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Post by pitaj »

jstimpfle wrote: post #230
dandare wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it just a fad? How usable and readable is the brutalist design? Or what are you trying to maximise other than being different?

A fad? Don't you see a problem with many of today's websites? Both from a developer's and a user's perspective.

Sure, many "modern" sites have terrible UX, but that doesn't mean that minimalist or "brutalist" designs are intrinsically any better.

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

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Post by jamesrcole »

michaelmior wrote: post #233
jamesrcole wrote: post #103

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Which god? The argument you make could also be made for all people following all the religions aside from the one whose god actually exists. The religions can't all be right, if in fact even one is right. So sheer quantity of believers doesn't work for making a point.

Fair point although I wasn't intending to argue that number of believers is any sort of proof. In any case, at least Christianity and Islam each have over one billion believers globally.

> I wasn't intending to argue that number of believers is any sort of proof.

It definitely doesn't provide any proof, but I didn't say that. I said "sheer quantity of believers doesn't work for making a point", as in, how can the number of people in any way support the validity of any beliefs held by those people?

There's plenty of concrete historical evidence that beliefs held by many many people turned out to be wrong. It's basically the story of science. I.e. we have clear evidence that the fact that a lot of people hold a belief does not mean anything about the truth of that belief.

> In any case, at least Christianity and Islam each have over one billion believers globally.

But that illustrates my original point.

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Post by RobertoG »

michaelmior wrote: post #235
ap46 wrote: post #159

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This is where I interject & mention this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost People don't want to feel like they wasted time & resources over something that doesn't exist. Religion can just be relegated to a construct for social activities. There's so many of them which sprung up independently. People should really ponder whether they have accounted some belief for interplanetary travel.

If you bring up opportunity cost, I think it's also worth mentioning Pascal's wager[0]. I don't believe in this argument, but it's an interesting point to consider. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager

The problem with Pascal Wager is that, even if you choose to believe in good, you have not solved yet the problem of which one.

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Post by [deleted] »

csbartus wrote: post #170

New aesthetics in web design. With the brutalist movement something new started. People went back to code editors to create websites by hand skipping third-party, non-web-native user interface design tools prefilled with common knowledge making websites looking uniform. The idea of design silos and brand-specific design thinking is dropped: no more bootstrap, flat design, material design, etc. It's like back to the n…

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