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Young/Innovative Companies for Physicians?

carc — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:14:39 +0000

My wife is a physician. Like many physicians she feels sort of abused by the system - burnt out, feels like a cog in the wheel, she really cares about quality but that she's incentivized only for speed, etc. etc.

I want to try to find a place she could work where she could use her background but also enjoy her job. I've always felt like small companies are great because everyone is more likely to care - IMO probably the best heuristic for whether a place will be enjoyable to work at.

tldr does anyone have any suggestions for finding companies trying to push the envelope/be innovative/actually care about patients over $/etc.? I was hoping there could be some health care related start up that would work.

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New comment by carc in "Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet"

carc — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:35:42 +0000

Lots of bold, unsubstantiated claims. I think every time there is a big peak, or a big valley, some percentage of people are always peddling "but this is different"

New comment by carc in "Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and a lucrative ‘hot list’"

carc — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 19:22:54 +0000

My understanding is that Gates and Epstein were more or less just acquaintances, but it seems you think otherwise. What am I missing?

New comment by carc in "Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'"

carc — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:26:37 +0000

I'll never understand this sentiment. You don't have to have alerts from slack outside of business hours. Or respond in general. If I responded or looked at my messages every time I got one, I'd never get work done... so I simply ignore them until I am taking a break or otherwise at a good stopping point. It's not that hard.

New comment by carc in "Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database"

carc — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:17:14 +0000

Just wanted to say this is completely inconsistent with almost all people I know who work/have worked at Amazon as developers

New comment by carc in "OKRs from a development team’s perspective"

carc — Fri, 24 May 2019 19:13:18 +0000

This seems like there isn't buy-in to the OKRs across your employer. My company does OKRs and it's taken seriously by VPs as well as the devs. Here, it's very reasonable to say no to something (and have that be respected) because it's not contributing to your team's OKRs. If it's a VP or something and insists it needs to be done then that means the OKRs need to be updated to reflect the nature of this work.

New comment by carc in "To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)"

carc — Mon, 13 May 2019 21:33:04 +0000

A couple of big reasons don't like message buses (but open to hearing about why I'm wrong):

-All "requests" will succeed even if malformed

-Couples producers/consumers to the bus (unless you put in the extra work to wrap it in a very simple service)

New comment by carc in "Go 1.13: xerrors"

carc — Wed, 01 May 2019 17:39:47 +0000

I think I agree with you - I'm just trying to understand the other perspective from someone that seems to think not having exceptions is an improvement. I've mostly worked using java and go and to be honest I think I prefer exceptions because you should (almost) always check error codes in go anyway, and if you forget, you just made debugging much more difficult.

New comment by carc in "Go 1.13: xerrors"

carc — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:10:49 +0000

Aren't you supposed to check all the possible errors in golang anyway? How's that any different than java code being littered with error handling code?

New comment by carc in "REST is the new SOAP"

carc — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:28:06 +0000

> Why is REST so popular?

You think this guy is a hateful hipster, but most of what he says probably resonates with most software vets. To me, it's mostly against the REST zealots who demand REST is done in a very particular manner. I've seen companies with a very stable, robust RPC framework that had a small faction of REST zealots who were extremely against it because it didn't do things according to REST. It didn't matter to them how stable it was or how well it worked.

Also, REST is relatively not popular - what percentage of the world's APIs use REST do you think?

TBH, you're the one coming off like the hateful hipster to me.

New comment by carc in "Coinbase Wants Wall Street to Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues"

carc — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:21:31 +0000

To counter anecdote with anecdote, I've had no issues with coinbase and have found them pleasant to use. That includes transferring to gdax/selling/withdrawing, etc.

New comment by carc in "The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market"

carc — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:53:58 +0000

This is simply false.

New comment by carc in "Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match"

carc — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:14:36 +0000

Neither go nor chess are solved

New comment by carc in "Jim Cramer says Snap shouldn't be a public company due to its low earnings"

carc — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 01:54:46 +0000

Why the downvote? The world is rife with people making claims like this but not putting their money where their mouth is...

New comment by carc in "Jim Cramer says Snap shouldn't be a public company due to its low earnings"

carc — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:05:14 +0000

If it is so obvious that snap "shouldn't be a public company", then the price would be far lower than the ~$12 it's at now..

New comment by carc in "Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There"

carc — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 21:23:57 +0000

To me, this sounds like it's the perspective of a pampered person.

You really don't think Amazon opening a campus in a city with stagnating or negative job growth would be good for that city?

New comment by carc in "Man charged after media storage site Dropbox finds child porn in his account"

carc — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:46:38 +0000

Permissions?

New comment by carc in "NBC’s Snapchat news show gains 29+ million viewers in its first month"

carc — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 00:15:38 +0000

Weird, I always ignored the news 'show' but this prompted me to watch it and it had nothing that you just brought up. It talked the Barcelona attack, Bannon getting fired, and a couple of other actually worthwhile things. Granted, there were a couple of dumb things (like Taylor Swift's social media disappearing or something), but it still exceeded my (admittedly low) expectations

New comment by carc in "An Indian village addicted to chess"

carc — Thu, 18 May 2017 23:58:19 +0000

As a recreational player that plays in tournaments from time to time and is active in my local chess community, this post really only exposes that you don't know what you're talking about. For context, I'm not amazing but I'm no slouch (~95th percentile in the US) and memorization accounts for so little of my defeats or victories that it's practically meaningless. In fact, studying the openings is usually considered to be the least value-adding way to improve unless you're a titled player (usually 2400+ US ELO)

New comment by carc in "Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away from Coding Schools"

carc — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:16:29 +0000

Funny, I have almost the exact same experience. Quit my job as a CPA at a big firm to go to a coding bootcamp, made myself put in the same number of hours coding/learning as I was working my old job (70+/week) until I found a job... got a job at a startup first and 2 years later got a job at one of the "big 4".

I also don't list my bootcamp anywhere mostly because I'm worried about assumptions people will make about my technical knowledge if I do (rather than judging based on my actual performance). I'm also hesitant to recommend it to others because while I have to say it was 100% worth it to me... I've tried to help too many people learn to code who just failed because they weren't willing to fight past the frustrations of the learning curve (which is very steep at first). I just assume now that most people don't have what it takes (and that is NOT intelligence or cleverness... it's mostly just discipline/work ethic/intellectual curiosity).. so I'll never really encourage people to follow my path.