In America, "Entree" means the main course, it's not the proper French definition of the word, which would be understood in e.g. the UK but is typically called a "starter".
Only the very nicest school canteens would serve three courses anyway, most will only serve a main and dessert.
Both private hire cars and black cabs are required to display an ID number for exactly the same reasons. A complaint can get their license suspended.
It's just easier to do it to an Uber because you can do it right from the app.
> Rates are fair
The rates for standard taxis are strictly regulated and controlled. Uber rates vary when Uber thinks they should (e.g. surge pricing during tube strikes).
The UK tools are based on the XML format, ClaML. This introduces all sorts of nice things like transitive inheritance of suffixes, but does include all the descriptions in the proper places and the text of the entries in addition to the full code descriptions from the books, which you could consider useful for the job of being a clinical coder.
Incidentally, the official DSV tables have plenty of errors in them, including some nasty encoding boo-boos and quite a number of rows that should / shouldn't be there.
As far as I can make it, the historical method of editing the data has been to take the files they use to publish the books and transcribe it to other formats manually. It's only recently they've been aspiring to a toolchain that starts with a structured format and publishes everything else from there. The official data is (was, when I was still working on it, maybe they accepted my patches) riddled with transcription errors, encoding errors, etc, many of them precisely the sort of thing you'd expect from manual transcription or copy/pasting from Word (including the infamous left/right leaning quote characters instead of single quotes / apostrophes).
Yeah - the beauty being that you have a structured text format that works for you and you can be a master of with the text editor of your choice.
I'm a vim person myself - I kinda envy Org-Mode users but I can't get along with Emacs and the Org-Mode plugins for vim suck.
I really prefer Textile as used in Redmine to Markdown. Markdown is too finicky and has too many varying implementations for my taste, but it is more widely supported (probably because of Pandoc - another tool that can't interoperate with MS Office / DOCX successfully, again, because DOCX is awful, not because Pandoc is).
I have seriously considered writing a Markdown plugin for MS Word - since Word is the only software that is best suited to writing DOCX files, it's probably easier to get Word to comprehend Markdown (even in VBA) than it is to get basically anything else to write decent DOCX files.
I totally agree - the problem is not the usefulness or general quality of ODF tools, it's the awfulness of MS Office.
ODF was designed as a interoperable document format.
MOO-XML is a verbatim serialization of the internal structs of MS Office. It was never designed as a interoperable document format. The native format of Office is still the binary formats, but in order to prevent ODF tools eating their lunch in government settings, they had to do something to tick the "Open Standard" and "XML Serialization" checkboxes.
They got their cake and crammed it down everyone's throat by buying influence with ISO (and crippling it once they withdrew their interest but not their influence).
Aside from the data being rather horrible (it takes quite a chunk of code to parse it correctly - and most users haven't written that code properly), I also worked on tools for defining conversions of SNOMED CT to ICD-10.
If you think ICD-10 is scary, wait until you see SNOMED CT ; 70,000 codes? Try 400,000, which you can use in combination with each other (codes qualifying codes), with 1.5M descriptions.
TPP isn't getting "the better". TPP is surrendering your sovereignty to giant international corporations.
I mean, the USA was pretty much that way anyway, but TPP really makes it official, and unfortunately (along with TTIP) drags a lot of the rest of us along for the ride.
The International Classification of Diseases was originally for compiling WHO statistics, but has been embraced by the pen-pushers in health care. You might think the US insurance industry likes it because it affords manifold opportunities to deny someone a claim (code not covered / wrong code assigned, sorry, bad claim), I couldn't possibly comment.
The UK is ahead of the USA using ICD-10 ; we've used it for years. We also use a somewhat more limited set, of around 14,000 codes, having heavily audited all the codes that arise from combinations of suffixes and decided that many of them don't make sense.
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Amen to that - Corporate knowledge ends up as a morass of write-only Office documents when it should be a Gollum wiki with peer reviewed changes (as much for the knowledge dissemination as the actual approval).
1) Libre is preferable to Open - it has more developers and because of how it's licensed it can adopt all the changes Open makes - not so the other way around.
2) Compatibility with.docx sucks. Compatibility with Excel is _terrible_.
3) I don't trust LibreOffice to output documents that won't embarrass me in front of my boss. People will say "PDF", but bosses always want to edit things.
I'm sure it's a useful office suite - it frustrates me no more than MS Office does when I have to use it. And some of its tricks like opening PDF documents for editing (in Draw) are very useful.
But I keep a Windows VM for various programs, and Office is one of them. Bottom line is, the only code that's good at being compatible with MS Office is.... MS Office.
If I had my way we'd do everything as version controlled Markdown, but I'll never get my way.
C++ code generally compiles down to better cache-coherent structures than other languages
It's possible to do cache-coherent programming in managed runtimes - it's mostly about knowing the rules though, and people who've never used unmanaged languages are less likely to know the rules.
Everything that's an "object" is a pointer, and they'll be scattered all over the heap. The only way you get cache-coherency is using structs, which not all managed languages have, or arrays, which even managed languages allocate as a contiguous block of memory.
I've written sorted collection classes in Java that use this principle, they handily beat the included framework classes like TreeMap in terms of both performance and memory overhead, using nothing more exciting than byte[] as index blocks.
I worked in a place that used a whitelisting program - the very antithesis of a useful computer is one that's been locked down to only run what has been deemed OK by the IT dept.
They don't dismiss it because people believe that drivel, and no-one likes their beliefs trampled on.
If a politician announced that "Islam is a load of crap!", his career would be seriously stunted, even though any man who claims to be e.g. a devout Catholic implicitly should believe this because their faith dictates that they should. This is why it's a great political insult to call someone out for being an atheist - because it conveys they impression that they are insulting everyone of faith. If you have your own faith, sure, that's fine, you just got suckered by the wrong priests and, hey, we're all human, but atheists? Dammit they spit in the face of ALL gods.
Homoeopathy is a minor religious cult. They believe that tangible actions in the real world have intangible results that then in turn cause tangible actions in the real world, analogous to the prayer - god - miracle relationship. The only reason it survives is because the placebo effect is powerful. No politician willingly insults religion, and this is why none of them come out and say "homoeopathy is a load of bullshit" in public.
If only it were so. It's actually quite labour-intensive to produce ; it involves multiple steps of repeated dilution and agitation - which is often intentionally done manually.
Unless you were some kind of charlatan, of course, who just put a few cheap sugar pills in a bottle and labelled it "Arnica". Sadly, you can't tell the difference./s
All the mummery and ritual that go into the production of homeopathic remedies add to the convincing impression that it has some efficacy.
That's not incompatible with saying that you believe it works for some people. Neither is saying that incompatible with knowing full well that it's hokum, if you want to humour those of your constituents that believe in it, just as you wouldn't trample on someone's religion.
If I was in a position to make policy about it... I'd probably mumble something about it being bad policy to support something with such an inconclusive body of supporting evidence, and make damn sure not a penny of state money went on it.
And quietly support the prescribing of a range of state-manufactured placebo drugs to replace it.
Anti-nuclear and anti-GMO are pretty much mainstream positions in the UK, so that would seem to be democratic.
Homeopathy? I'm not sure what the prevailing opinion is, but the economics of it would seem to indicate that enough people believe in it for it to be a commonly held belief that it works.
Office is better.. at being compatible with Office. And since that's what everyone (mostly) uses, that's it's killer feature now.
I hate having to use it, but I keep a Windows VM for Office (and the few other Windows programs I need to use), LibreOffice just isn't capable of writing MS Office documents well enough not to embarrass you when your boss opens it.
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In America, "Entree" means the main course, it's not the proper French definition of the word, which would be understood in e.g. the UK but is typically called a "starter".
Only the very nicest school canteens would serve three courses anyway, most will only serve a main and dessert.
Huh?
Both private hire cars and black cabs are required to display an ID number for exactly the same reasons. A complaint can get their license suspended.
It's just easier to do it to an Uber because you can do it right from the app.
> Rates are fair
The rates for standard taxis are strictly regulated and controlled. Uber rates vary when Uber thinks they should (e.g. surge pricing during tube strikes).
Ah, you've been using the DSV table files.
The UK tools are based on the XML format, ClaML. This introduces all sorts of nice things like transitive inheritance of suffixes, but does include all the descriptions in the proper places and the text of the entries in addition to the full code descriptions from the books, which you could consider useful for the job of being a clinical coder.
Incidentally, the official DSV tables have plenty of errors in them, including some nasty encoding boo-boos and quite a number of rows that should / shouldn't be there.
As far as I can make it, the historical method of editing the data has been to take the files they use to publish the books and transcribe it to other formats manually. It's only recently they've been aspiring to a toolchain that starts with a structured format and publishes everything else from there. The official data is (was, when I was still working on it, maybe they accepted my patches) riddled with transcription errors, encoding errors, etc, many of them precisely the sort of thing you'd expect from manual transcription or copy/pasting from Word (including the infamous left/right leaning quote characters instead of single quotes / apostrophes).
Yeah - the beauty being that you have a structured text format that works for you and you can be a master of with the text editor of your choice.
I'm a vim person myself - I kinda envy Org-Mode users but I can't get along with Emacs and the Org-Mode plugins for vim suck.
I really prefer Textile as used in Redmine to Markdown. Markdown is too finicky and has too many varying implementations for my taste, but it is more widely supported (probably because of Pandoc - another tool that can't interoperate with MS Office / DOCX successfully, again, because DOCX is awful, not because Pandoc is).
I have seriously considered writing a Markdown plugin for MS Word - since Word is the only software that is best suited to writing DOCX files, it's probably easier to get Word to comprehend Markdown (even in VBA) than it is to get basically anything else to write decent DOCX files.
Not even headers and footers work right. And since corporate types LOVE headers and footers, that buggers up pretty much everything.
I totally agree - the problem is not the usefulness or general quality of ODF tools, it's the awfulness of MS Office.
ODF was designed as a interoperable document format.
MOO-XML is a verbatim serialization of the internal structs of MS Office. It was never designed as a interoperable document format. The native format of Office is still the binary formats, but in order to prevent ODF tools eating their lunch in government settings, they had to do something to tick the "Open Standard" and "XML Serialization" checkboxes.
They got their cake and crammed it down everyone's throat by buying influence with ISO (and crippling it once they withdrew their interest but not their influence).
ICD-10 does not describe medical procedures, it only describes (as the name implies) medical ailments.
In the UK we have a separate coding system (OPCS) for describing medical procedures.
The one-code-system-to-rule-them-all is SNOMED CT, which almost no-one implements thoroughly because it's such a monster.
I worked on some of the tools for ICD-10.
Aside from the data being rather horrible (it takes quite a chunk of code to parse it correctly - and most users haven't written that code properly), I also worked on tools for defining conversions of SNOMED CT to ICD-10.
If you think ICD-10 is scary, wait until you see SNOMED CT ; 70,000 codes? Try 400,000, which you can use in combination with each other (codes qualifying codes), with 1.5M descriptions.
It's a great way to deny claims.
Wrong code? Sorry, fraudulent claim. You can bet that the insurance industry will have more skilled coders than the hospitals.
Gerbil up the arse with *fire damage*?? Sorry, we only cover gerbil up the arse, lubed.
TPP?!?!?
TPP isn't getting "the better". TPP is surrendering your sovereignty to giant international corporations.
I mean, the USA was pretty much that way anyway, but TPP really makes it official, and unfortunately (along with TTIP) drags a lot of the rest of us along for the ride.
And "dug up three months later and recycled as firelighters"
Ding! You hit the nail on the head.
The International Classification of Diseases was originally for compiling WHO statistics, but has been embraced by the pen-pushers in health care. You might think the US insurance industry likes it because it affords manifold opportunities to deny someone a claim (code not covered / wrong code assigned, sorry, bad claim), I couldn't possibly comment.
The UK is ahead of the USA using ICD-10 ; we've used it for years. We also use a somewhat more limited set, of around 14,000 codes, having heavily audited all the codes that arise from combinations of suffixes and decided that many of them don't make sense.
Amen to that - Corporate knowledge ends up as a morass of write-only Office documents when it should be a Gollum wiki with peer reviewed changes (as much for the knowledge dissemination as the actual approval).
1) Libre is preferable to Open - it has more developers and because of how it's licensed it can adopt all the changes Open makes - not so the other way around.
2) Compatibility with .docx sucks. Compatibility with Excel is _terrible_.
3) I don't trust LibreOffice to output documents that won't embarrass me in front of my boss. People will say "PDF", but bosses always want to edit things.
I'm sure it's a useful office suite - it frustrates me no more than MS Office does when I have to use it. And some of its tricks like opening PDF documents for editing (in Draw) are very useful.
But I keep a Windows VM for various programs, and Office is one of them. Bottom line is, the only code that's good at being compatible with MS Office is.... MS Office.
If I had my way we'd do everything as version controlled Markdown, but I'll never get my way.
C++ code generally compiles down to better cache-coherent structures than other languages
It's possible to do cache-coherent programming in managed runtimes - it's mostly about knowing the rules though, and people who've never used unmanaged languages are less likely to know the rules.
Everything that's an "object" is a pointer, and they'll be scattered all over the heap. The only way you get cache-coherency is using structs, which not all managed languages have, or arrays, which even managed languages allocate as a contiguous block of memory.
I've written sorted collection classes in Java that use this principle, they handily beat the included framework classes like TreeMap in terms of both performance and memory overhead, using nothing more exciting than byte[] as index blocks.
Yeah, it's more to do with using a framework that helps with the aggressive use of computer resources than being in one language over another.
Some of the latency gains might be down to C++ vs Java, but the throughput is probably because the CPU is less idle.
Yegods yes.
I worked in a place that used a whitelisting program - the very antithesis of a useful computer is one that's been locked down to only run what has been deemed OK by the IT dept.
You couldn't even write a .BAT file.
They don't dismiss it because people believe that drivel, and no-one likes their beliefs trampled on.
If a politician announced that "Islam is a load of crap!", his career would be seriously stunted, even though any man who claims to be e.g. a devout Catholic implicitly should believe this because their faith dictates that they should. This is why it's a great political insult to call someone out for being an atheist - because it conveys they impression that they are insulting everyone of faith. If you have your own faith, sure, that's fine, you just got suckered by the wrong priests and, hey, we're all human, but atheists? Dammit they spit in the face of ALL gods.
Homoeopathy is a minor religious cult. They believe that tangible actions in the real world have intangible results that then in turn cause tangible actions in the real world, analogous to the prayer - god - miracle relationship. The only reason it survives is because the placebo effect is powerful. No politician willingly insults religion, and this is why none of them come out and say "homoeopathy is a load of bullshit" in public.
Homeopathy is cheap
If only it were so. It's actually quite labour-intensive to produce ; it involves multiple steps of repeated dilution and agitation - which is often intentionally done manually.
Unless you were some kind of charlatan, of course, who just put a few cheap sugar pills in a bottle and labelled it "Arnica". Sadly, you can't tell the difference. /s
It's no bloody use right now!
* We can't maintain one-boat-at-sea at all times, because they're falling to bits - they can't even complete readiness drills reliably
* We can't use it anyway : From the House of Commons Defence Select Committee (in 2006) : "the only way that Britain is ever likely to use Trident is to give legitimacy to a US nuclear attack by participating in it"
In short, it's just a way to siphon money into the pockets of defence contractors.
Jeremy's heresy is that he wants to use those resources to build infrastructure to better all our lives instead of just a few rich warmongers.
Well, exactly. That's why it can work.
All the mummery and ritual that go into the production of homeopathic remedies add to the convincing impression that it has some efficacy.
That's not incompatible with saying that you believe it works for some people. Neither is saying that incompatible with knowing full well that it's hokum, if you want to humour those of your constituents that believe in it, just as you wouldn't trample on someone's religion.
If I was in a position to make policy about it... I'd probably mumble something about it being bad policy to support something with such an inconclusive body of supporting evidence, and make damn sure not a penny of state money went on it.
And quietly support the prescribing of a range of state-manufactured placebo drugs to replace it.
Anti-nuclear and anti-GMO are pretty much mainstream positions in the UK, so that would seem to be democratic.
Homeopathy? I'm not sure what the prevailing opinion is, but the economics of it would seem to indicate that enough people believe in it for it to be a commonly held belief that it works.
Trickle-down economics is a joke.
No, literally, it started off as a joke by an American humourist, Will Rogers, who said of President Hoover's recovery efforts
money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes it would trickle down to the needy.
But the notion that prosperity for the rich leads to prosperity for everyone is no straw man - it's a well known part of right wing policy.
They just released a beta build (with a .deb) last last week.
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/...
Office is better.. at being compatible with Office. And since that's what everyone (mostly) uses, that's it's killer feature now.
I hate having to use it, but I keep a Windows VM for Office (and the few other Windows programs I need to use), LibreOffice just isn't capable of writing MS Office documents well enough not to embarrass you when your boss opens it.