Supposedly 835, and 837, were ways to standardize documentation. But, like you, we have to deal with things per provider, because everyone does it "differently". Bleh. (I work for a company that writes claims management and adjudication software for many large providers.)
hehe me too, I work for a pharmacy chain that decided to get in the PBM business so I started putting one together. It's been operational for about 5 years now with new stuff always being added. It's the top achievement of my career so far.
I work in the same industry. Lots and lots of our carriers refuse to provide ANSI 835 documents though. Of all our carriers about 5% actually comply and supply 835's. ( I work in pharmacy )
btw, 835's are a mess anyway. We have to write parsers almost on a carrier by carrier basis because so much of the spec is optional everyone does it in their own way. I'm sure you know my pain.
what about getting rear ended? I would guess half of all avoided collisions resulted from the gas pedal and steering wheel instead of the break. Will the car accelerate away from danger when required?
Steering too, I was driving late at night in mist when about a half dozen deer just appeared in the road. It took some heavy steering in addition to the break to avoid them.
I lived in Daytona until i was 12 and remember the beach landscape constantly changing. Wouldn't they have to keep moving the pipes? Like bury them deeper at times and shallower at others based on what the beach is doing that day.
This is payback for Yang's ego, Balmer is just watching Yang twist in the wind. They'll pick up Yahoo just before bankruptcy..my guess is around April '09
At this point, the next presidency will be defined by the current economy regardless of their platform.
The general public won't get a sense of the magnitude of what's happening until around Spring '09. At that point, layoffs will have really kicked in and that's where the average American will notice how things like TED spreads, VIX indexes and "credit crunches" affect them. Interestingly, the next president and their party will be blamed as unemployment rises. So, if you were head of some major party would you _want_ to be in power over the next 4 years or would you want to wait it out, watch it burn, then swoop in as the knight on a silver horse right as the recession/depression begins to turn around?
Global trade, which is run on letters of credit, is shutting down and entire countries are beginning to face default. Remember the opaque, tightly coupled, unregulated CDS market that wiped out investment banking? Well CDS's are held against governments as well and the UK's rate to buy protection is now the second highest in the G8. So, the American woes have spread globally.
Probably the biggest challenge to the next president is that the current economic situation is unprecedented in that there's no real comparison to past economic times. The media describes things in therms like "..not since 1929.." or "..like in the 1970's.." but in reality nothing like this has ever happened. Economics is such a complex beast. Your best bet in making predictions or comparisons is the past. Economists like to start sentences with "Traditionally, blah blah" well there is no "traditionally" with what is happening today.
Bernanke is a "student of the Great Depression" so he has some insight in what not to do but only in the context of The Great Depression. Things are different (obviously) for one, news and information spread at light speed around the globe. I'm interested to see what happens during the time the administrations change over. Those few days of flux when appointees are settling in their positions could be disastrous. It took less than a week for the failure of Bear Stern's to wipe out AIG. Besides, if Paulson is replaced then we could very well be back to square one. Will the next president try to change the direction of the economic efforts?
All in all it's an incredible time to be alive, the last decade has been as crazy as the craziest.
"So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA"
hmm yeah we need some sort of agreement.. an agreement with the user.. that lets them know the terms of our license.. you know for our trademarks and stuff... but not a EULA.
I wonder if there's an acronym for this user agreement to our license thingy...
I toured CIHost's Bedford TX datacenter a few years ago. I saw a boxfan blowing on a bunch of servers and a single power strip plugged into 4 or 5 of those servers that was stretched across to a wall outlet so that it was about 8" off the floor. Pefect to trip over nevermind the walmart quality parts.
jeez you guys act like the idle section just slapped you in the face even though it's been up for months.
i took a look at it a long time ago, it's not for me so i don't click on the link. Where's the problem? Maybe some of the less mature posters will head over there instead of cluttering up the main stories.
If you increase the lifespan of the average human to 1000 years would they remain fertile in proportion? Would a women remain fertile until about age 350?
Also, would a child not encounter puberty until age 130?
Surely you've been asked the overpopulation question before, what is your response?
FTA
"Google has said since it unveiled Android Nov. 1 that there would be phones based on the OS in the second half of 2008. The Wall Street Journal, citing Google as a source, is reporting that the Android handsets "won't arrive until the fourth quarter."
Confused, I asked Google for clarification. Will the Android phones be delayed as the WSJ reported? The answer was a resounding, "no."
"We remain on schedule to deliver the first Android-based handset in the second half of 2008 and we're very excited to see the momentum continuing to build behind the Android platform among carriers, handset manufacturers, developers and consumers," a Google spokesperson told me today."
um 4th qtr '08 is still "second half of '08"
*head asplodes*
In my experience the single most important part to a software project is good requirement gathering and analysis.
As for development, every program that i know uses some concept of divide and conquer. Breaking up a large problem in to a set of connected smaller problems simplifies writing good code. It's easier to write small bug-free modules then it is to write a large program all at once.
It would be interesting to find the cutoff point where a problem should be further divided and when it is discreet enough. Also, it would be interesting to know when a developer begins to introduce bugs or less optimized code. Like after x many lines or like y many hours.
It would be interesting to try and quantify code elegance. I forget who said it but there's a saying "code that looks good is good"
I use to have a few friends who worked for UUNET in Richardson TX. After Worldcom bought them and then the scandel happened their datacenter was reduced to a skeleton crew (including security). My buddy worked nights so some weekends I'd drive up to Richardson from Dallas with some beer and he'd sneak me into the datacenter through a door that the smokers used and we'd hang out, drink, and download movies/watch pron. Good times.
Their UPS was pretty impressive. It was about a 2 thousand square foot room full of what looked like car batteries. I didn't like to go in there, I don't like being around large, uninsulated, potential. (I was electrocuted pretty badly as a kid once)
In an ideal world, we'd all farm out the stuff we're not good at to people trained to do it. I'm not holding my breath... I agree to an extent but no profession is an island. You're going to have to involve people who are specialized in what you aren't to make a project happen. I think anyone be it engineer, businessman, marketer, or sales rep or whoever that is really good at what they do understands that.
Doing away with hackers will have the effect of homogenising the industry. Guess what tho, not every country thinks this way, some developing nations will look at the stagnant 'hacker free' computing industry and destroy it in a matter of years by producing more innovative products. Making technological innovation happen is maybe 5% actual "innovation". It takes many people of many different specialties to actually put it all together and get it to society. An anti-gravity machine some hacker develops in his garage is absolutely positively useless unless they can get it to the population at large. Making that happen is just as hard and complex as the "innovation".
Just a suggestion, but maybe using 3rd world children to carry out jihad against the technology industry isn't a great plan.
this.
I've long thought that was the original goal, "How many kids can we get to use Linux" instead of "How many kids can we help learn". Ugh i need to quit reading this story.. it angers the blood.
It was predictable enough, and many of us did point out the terribly obvious flaw in the OLPC plan -- that people experiencing shortages in food, potable water, basic shelter, education facilities, farmable land, etc, etc, need those survival basics covered far more than they need a laptop. I still don't really see how this was not obvious to Negroponte et al. not only that but the massive anti-Microsoft backlash was further evidence. I started with Windows and it in now way locked me in or prevented me from learning. If all the fire and brimstone the zealots were spewing were true I'd have never heard or been able to exerience their Linux/OSS utopia. Yet somehow, I've managed to get into Linux and eventually a job administering only Linux servers and running Linux/OSS at home as well. wow.
all that is really besides the point because what percentage of children want to be programmers? 1% or 2%? You can be a perfectly educated teacher or biologist or farmer or whatever using Windows. There's so much educational material available on the Internet that has absolutely nothing to with what operating system or software development philosophy you use. Wikipedia works the same in Windows or Linux. The whole "omgz no microsoft" fiasco was a major major turn off for me. Just more OSS zealots preaching their same sermon at the expense of everyone.
As soon as i read that article a while back about the guy who complained there wasn't a decent distribution system in place I knew it was doomed.
Hackers like to think they can do everyone's job better even if it way out of their scope. I guess that's the difference between hackers and engineers, engineers understand that it takes managers, PHB's, marketing, sales, and production staff to make it work. Hackers think it just takes code.
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Toby Hunter, Minneapolis Star. No really, is this a joke?
I do feel your pain.
Supposedly 835, and 837, were ways to standardize documentation. But, like you, we have to deal with things per provider, because everyone does it "differently". Bleh. (I work for a company that writes claims management and adjudication software for many large providers.)
hehe me too, I work for a pharmacy chain that decided to get in the PBM business so I started putting one together. It's been operational for about 5 years now with new stuff always being added. It's the top achievement of my career so far.
I work in the same industry. Lots and lots of our carriers refuse to provide ANSI 835 documents though. Of all our carriers about 5% actually comply and supply 835's. ( I work in pharmacy ) btw, 835's are a mess anyway. We have to write parsers almost on a carrier by carrier basis because so much of the spec is optional everyone does it in their own way. I'm sure you know my pain.
what about getting rear ended? I would guess half of all avoided collisions resulted from the gas pedal and steering wheel instead of the break. Will the car accelerate away from danger when required? Steering too, I was driving late at night in mist when about a half dozen deer just appeared in the road. It took some heavy steering in addition to the break to avoid them.
I lived in Daytona until i was 12 and remember the beach landscape constantly changing. Wouldn't they have to keep moving the pipes? Like bury them deeper at times and shallower at others based on what the beach is doing that day.
This is payback for Yang's ego, Balmer is just watching Yang twist in the wind. They'll pick up Yahoo just before bankruptcy ..my guess is around April '09
Where's your middle finger now Yang? Do you see the pitchforks and torches of shareholders on the horizon? Hope it was worth it.
At this point, the next presidency will be defined by the current economy regardless of their platform.
The general public won't get a sense of the magnitude of what's happening until around Spring '09. At that point, layoffs will have really kicked in and that's where the average American will notice how things like TED spreads, VIX indexes and "credit crunches" affect them. Interestingly, the next president and their party will be blamed as unemployment rises. So, if you were head of some major party would you _want_ to be in power over the next 4 years or would you want to wait it out, watch it burn, then swoop in as the knight on a silver horse right as the recession/depression begins to turn around?
Global trade, which is run on letters of credit, is shutting down and entire countries are beginning to face default. Remember the opaque, tightly coupled, unregulated CDS market that wiped out investment banking? Well CDS's are held against governments as well and the UK's rate to buy protection is now the second highest in the G8. So, the American woes have spread globally.
Probably the biggest challenge to the next president is that the current economic situation is unprecedented in that there's no real comparison to past economic times. The media describes things in therms like "..not since 1929.." or "..like in the 1970's.." but in reality nothing like this has ever happened. Economics is such a complex beast. Your best bet in making predictions or comparisons is the past. Economists like to start sentences with "Traditionally, blah blah" well there is no "traditionally" with what is happening today.
Bernanke is a "student of the Great Depression" so he has some insight in what not to do but only in the context of The Great Depression. Things are different (obviously) for one, news and information spread at light speed around the globe. I'm interested to see what happens during the time the administrations change over. Those few days of flux when appointees are settling in their positions could be disastrous. It took less than a week for the failure of Bear Stern's to wipe out AIG. Besides, if Paulson is replaced then we could very well be back to square one. Will the next president try to change the direction of the economic efforts?
All in all it's an incredible time to be alive, the last decade has been as crazy as the craziest.
Exercise for the reader: work out how you're going to power the climber.
hmm.. maybe use a rocket? i kid i kid.
"So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA"
hmm yeah we need some sort of agreement.. an agreement with the user.. that lets them know the terms of our license.. you know for our trademarks and stuff... but not a EULA.
I wonder if there's an acronym for this user agreement to our license thingy...
just stick a boxfan in there.
I toured CIHost's Bedford TX datacenter a few years ago. I saw a boxfan blowing on a bunch of servers and a single power strip plugged into 4 or 5 of those servers that was stretched across to a wall outlet so that it was about 8" off the floor. Pefect to trip over nevermind the walmart quality parts.
tour was over after i saw that.
jeez you guys act like the idle section just slapped you in the face even though it's been up for months.
i took a look at it a long time ago, it's not for me so i don't click on the link. Where's the problem? Maybe some of the less mature posters will head over there instead of cluttering up the main stories.
stop your whining
If you increase the lifespan of the average human to 1000 years would they remain fertile in proportion? Would a women remain fertile until about age 350?
Also, would a child not encounter puberty until age 130?
Surely you've been asked the overpopulation question before, what is your response?
god shmod i want my pig man!
A large company using Java for enterprise applications? wow and here Taco had me thinking Java Only Matters to Sell Books(tm).
Thanks Orbitz for open sourcing your apps. The ERMA things looks really cool.
FTA "Google has said since it unveiled Android Nov. 1 that there would be phones based on the OS in the second half of 2008. The Wall Street Journal, citing Google as a source, is reporting that the Android handsets "won't arrive until the fourth quarter."
Confused, I asked Google for clarification. Will the Android phones be delayed as the WSJ reported? The answer was a resounding, "no."
"We remain on schedule to deliver the first Android-based handset in the second half of 2008 and we're very excited to see the momentum continuing to build behind the Android platform among carriers, handset manufacturers, developers and consumers," a Google spokesperson told me today."
um 4th qtr '08 is still "second half of '08" *head asplodes*
In my experience the single most important part to a software project is good requirement gathering and analysis. As for development, every program that i know uses some concept of divide and conquer. Breaking up a large problem in to a set of connected smaller problems simplifies writing good code. It's easier to write small bug-free modules then it is to write a large program all at once.
It would be interesting to find the cutoff point where a problem should be further divided and when it is discreet enough. Also, it would be interesting to know when a developer begins to introduce bugs or less optimized code. Like after x many lines or like y many hours.
It would be interesting to try and quantify code elegance. I forget who said it but there's a saying "code that looks good is good"
I use to have a few friends who worked for UUNET in Richardson TX. After Worldcom bought them and then the scandel happened their datacenter was reduced to a skeleton crew (including security). My buddy worked nights so some weekends I'd drive up to Richardson from Dallas with some beer and he'd sneak me into the datacenter through a door that the smokers used and we'd hang out, drink, and download movies/watch pron. Good times.
Their UPS was pretty impressive. It was about a 2 thousand square foot room full of what looked like car batteries. I didn't like to go in there, I don't like being around large, uninsulated, potential. (I was electrocuted pretty badly as a kid once)
I've long thought that was the original goal, "How many kids can we get to use Linux" instead of "How many kids can we help learn". Ugh i need to quit reading this story.. it angers the blood.
all that is really besides the point because what percentage of children want to be programmers? 1% or 2%? You can be a perfectly educated teacher or biologist or farmer or whatever using Windows. There's so much educational material available on the Internet that has absolutely nothing to with what operating system or software development philosophy you use. Wikipedia works the same in Windows or Linux. The whole "omgz no microsoft" fiasco was a major major turn off for me. Just more OSS zealots preaching their same sermon at the expense of everyone.
As soon as i read that article a while back about the guy who complained there wasn't a decent distribution system in place I knew it was doomed.
Hackers like to think they can do everyone's job better even if it way out of their scope. I guess that's the difference between hackers and engineers, engineers understand that it takes managers, PHB's, marketing, sales, and production staff to make it work. Hackers think it just takes code.