The first season of Altered Carbon was an awesome science fiction mystery, and we binged it to death. The second season was a tiresome series of fights and we started fast-forwarding to find any plot, then gave up.
That strategy used to work, but not anymore. For "more efficient logistics", Amazon mingles counterfeit crap with their own. I've had to return camera batteries that were clearly fake, and water filters that were used, which I purchased directly from Amazon.
+1 to above. This is exactly my complaint. Lots of doctor-hate above which is weird, but look at the flip side, from a doctor who also does programming and studied CS. The EMRs are TERRIBLE. All of them. However, I don't rant about the incompetence of the IT programmers, because it is a gulf that we both need to address (physicians and IT designers).
I don't see this staying this way forever, but fixing usability issues are long overdue. In one Epic Fail system (those in the industry know what I mean), there is difficulty in even searching for a drug, you have to do old-style SQL type queries "starts with" or "contains", and spell rythmol as rhythmol and it can't figure it out. Obviously there are dangers to auto-correct with drug names, but finding the correct drug with a simple verification should be facile.
The UI designers also think that "clicking" is easier, but when you do something 100 times a day, as others have said, having full keyboard control is desired.
Finally, to load a patient or switch a context might take 20 seconds. Imagine that you have time-sensitive tasks and each time you do something there is 20 seconds of not-really-usable time wasted where you have to sit there and check the screen to see if it is updated? It is beyond frustration and doesn't work into the workflow of seeing patients.
Granted, I had the same complaints in 2005, and can't believe 11 years later I have the exact. same. complaints.
It said "Virgin could take on Tesla", so I thought it was about a fellow Slashdotter forming his own company.
I did 5 start ups and was part owner of a game company (10%) I've done everything you said not to do and you are right. You would be better off selling hats off the side of the road. On the other hand, I had one hell of a lot of fun.
TheGrumpyProgrammer
Do you happen to know who is in that picture? That is John McCarthy the inventor of Lisp. The joke is on you.
Well, not quite. Live your life like you are going to be fired TODAY. Be prepared for change.
Your first point is very very true and is exactly what I did. Kids are worth the cost. Sure, I would be a multimillionaire if we had not had kids, but what the hell. Not getting married may be a good idea but I have been married for 37 years to an ME and that is a wonderful way to spend your life.
TheGrumpyProgrammer
The "the" is there because I could not get
Not very long ago... 20 years or so, all employers paid technical empolyees to take classes. The classes were even often taught at the companies location. Local colleges would send full professors to teach classes that started just after the close of business so that they were convenient for the workers. It was normal to give employees time off during the day to take day classes. The employees were oftern paid for time and the employer allways paid for the tuition, books, and lab fees.
Technical employess used to be considered a valuable asset. Now they are not.
Stonewolf
"Sputnik moment" I do not think it means what they think it means. I turned 5 years old just a few days before Sputnik was launched. My father, who was in the invasion fleet on the way to Japan when the only nuclear bombs used in war were dropped, was working at the Hanford plant in southeast Washinton making plutonium for more nuclear bombs. For a family outing we went out and watched a simulated nuclear explosion.... That is what my life was like when Sputnik showed up in the sky.
Sputnik meant that suddenly every point in the US was subject to nuclear destruction with no warning. The level of fear was so high you could walk on it. For the rest of his life my father kept a survival kit in the trunks of his cars because he knew that the only hope you had for surviving a nuclear war was to be far enough away from where the bombs come down Burrowing under ground was just a way to bury yourself.
A "Sputnik moment" is a moment when every little bit of security you thought you had disapears. I suspect the people of Boston had a minor "Sputnik moment" when the bombs went off. The fear and anger I saw after 911 as not 1% of what the US experienced when sputnik appeared in the sky. The fear and anger were backed by huge frustration because unlike 911 we could not invade the USSR because we did not want to try to survive a nuclear war. Instead of spending time and money destroying them we spent the time and money making sure that if they tried to destroy us, we WOULD destroy them.
Stonewolf
Back when I got my BSCS in the '70s CS and all other engineering students were allowed to take any upper division business classes they wanted to no matter if they had the prerequisites or the 3.5/4.0 GPA required for business majors to take the same classes. In other words, the business department comsidered a sophomore in engineering to be superior to a senior in their own department.
At that time a BSCS required work equivalent to a doctorate in buisness. Even with the dramatic reduction in the requirements for CS degrees since then a BSCS is still the equivalent of at least an MBA. Not to mention that most people consider a 50 year old MBA to be highly experience while a 40 year old code monkey is considerred to be over the hill and good only for checking reciepts at the door at Sam's Club.
So, yes, why would anyone bother to train to be a code monkey these days? I made sure my kids did not make the same mistake I made...
Stonewolf
P.S.
I would gladly take $15/hour to teach CS. I've even taken the courses and passed all the tests to be able to do just that. Guess what? Public schools do not want MEN to teach classes. They especially do not want MEN who expect to be treated like humans. But, if they would allow me to teach I would happily do it for $15/hour because that is better than the $0/hour I can make as a 61 year old software engineer.
ASCII a stupid question, you get an EBCDIC answer.
