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I bought a pinebook pro and i have some SBCs. The PBP is perfect travel laptop with long battery life that can run on my phone charger. Firefox runs buttery smooth on Manjaro i3.

Comment · 5 years ago

An incredible project pushing for open hardware.

Very happy with my pinebook pro and rockpro. The pinebook pro has amazing build quality and usability for the price. When my oneplus dies hopefully there will be a pinephone 2!

Comment · 6 years ago

With uMatrix in "unless withlisted no js configuration" the test does not run. The noJS fallback does not progress. Probably means a pass :)

Unique fingerprint is really interesting upon enabling first party js. Fonts and gpu give lots of unique information.

Dont get the message to unblock ad providers that follow DNT. This trust is too easily betrayed.

Comment · 7 years ago

same for NSAIDS (ibuprofen etc) and bone healing

Comment · 8 years ago

I' m not in the US, so no crazy salaries on both sides. The average doctor probably makes more but the best programmer makes way more than the best doctor. However with long hours, night shifts, pressure etc you have to enjoy what you do or burn out early.

Comment · 8 years ago

Not really. Picked it up as a child, loved programming and tinkering. Had to choose between computer science and medicine. There are actually lots of things in common, debugging complex systems, building a mental model, abstraction, looking up solutions based on certain hints. Orthopedics is a highly technical field, working with implants, computer surgery, imaging and such so its very useful. Programming trains your problem solving abilities. I really believe everybody should have the opportunity to learn to code.

Comment · 8 years ago

Not really a startup in the sense of a VC backed multi million dollar company but three working friends and me have bootstrapped a fitness websites with science based health advice, mostly free, to basically the largest fitness related website in the Netherlands. Currently employing people, which i think still sounds insane for a hobby project. https://www.fit.nl. 700.000 pageviews a month. App, 2 books, system for training and meal schedules etc. One now works full time as a lead/writer.

As a day job I'm a full time resident of orthopedic surgery. Busy days. I've done most of the programming of the website (custom theme on wordpress), product comparison engine and other custom pages. And server admin for discourse, mattermost etc

Some important findings:

- You have to care otherwise it becomes a chore. In this case it keeps people healthy. We give free advice that i think is pretty good, e.g on the forum, I love that part. The link with the day job is here. Lots of stuff i tell people during clinic hours applies here as well

- As its completely different it still feels like a hobby. Learning to do stuff is fun

- Clear separation of responsibility, do stuff you are efficient in

- A ticketing system for jobs, pick up stuff when you have time. Anybody can add to the ticket list but the list owner decides what comes first.

- Keeping the tickets bite sized. GIT to deploy, deploy often

- A time tracking system (Toggle) tracks time spent.

- Mattermost for private discussions and planning

- Meetups and fun activities to keep the group focused

- Managed main server (websynthesis) in case the website goes down and the other technical guy or me are unavailable. More expensive but less stress this way.

Comment · 8 years ago

Check out https://syncthing.net/

Written in Go, its lightweight (runs on my beaglebone and pi's) and has been absolutely stable for me for years (100 GB, 10+ devices). It hits all the requirement except encrypted nodes.

Comment · 9 years ago

2nd year Surgical resident, part of my education to be an orthopedic surgeon. Currently working in a town 100km away.

05:45 wake up, quick breakfast and cycle to the train station 06:20 train. Grab the laptop, prepare for procedures or work on research 07:45 handover or 08:00 start of first procedure. Do timeout, grab a coffee while the anesthesist does his job 12:00 when lucky time for lunch behind the PC, administration 16:30 usually last procedure, handoff when on wards or clinic duty 17:00 see patients of the day, check for question from the new shift of nurses 18:00 train home. Do some coding for a company my friends and me run 19:15-19:30 home

Excerise, work on scientific papers or meet with the team at the office. Work on some points in the job queue. Sleep at 23:00.

Just a few more months and I'll change to a job closer by

Comment · 9 years ago

I'm using Koel: https://github.com/phanan/koel

Great alternative to ampache etc, very slick interface.

The hardest part is keeping music and especially playlists synced between devices, something that can be solved with syncthing or similar software. Playlists are very hard though with offline desktop clients (Musicbee)

Comment · 9 years ago

These articles are always way overhyped. A lot more development is needed before it can even be safely used as a tool alongside radiologists. The dermatology example is an excellent one. It would be great to have a simple image classifier that can help the diagnosis before the clinical appointment.

Software on its own can't even tackle a 'simple' task as reliable 6 lead EKG (electric heart film) analysis yet. A chest x-ray has a lot more variables. Plus clinical variables as patient history etc can make a big difference in diagnosis on a similar image.

Comment · 9 years ago

Brilliant piece of software. Perfect to gather data from different devices to backup in the cloud or to sync documents or a massive music collection.

The only thing missing is an encrypted external sync node so I can put it on a VPS somewhere