lauradhamilton
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Comment · 12 years ago
There is a difference between being shamed for breaking the build because you didn't run the test suite (and well knew that you should run the test suite) and being shamed for making an innocent mistake because you didn't know better.
Comment · 12 years ago
Is there really an over-utilization of blood tests? MRIs, yes, but I'm not sure that right now we're really doing too many blood tests.
Regarding your point on Bayes Theorem, that's valid in some ways and invalid in some ways. Suppose someone gets a vitamin D test back at 8 ng/mL. There's not really a chance of a false positive. He's deficient and needs supplementation. Making the test cheaper, faster, and more accessible can really only improve the health of the population. It will likely also drive down the cost of healthcare overall, because vitamin D deficiency has all sorts of unpleasant effects.
Furthermore, the literature suggests that the vast majority of doctors do not understand Bayes Theorem. Source: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
Comment · 12 years ago
Eh, other than Adwords Google hasn't been able to monetize their web properties.
Comment · 12 years ago
I think part of it is desperation. If someone is diagnosed with an incurable or untreatable disease or condition, then it's natural to try to look for some sort of treatment that will yield better results.
That means applying less skepticism towards "alternative" therapies.
Then you also have the following working against science: - Confirmation bias - Mistaking coincidence with causation - Overly aggressive pattern matching
Comment · 12 years ago
To be fair, if that bug happened to me, even with 10-20 data points I don't think I would have figured out it was a Tuesday bug.
Comment · 12 years ago
Seems like quite a low rate. I hope they have a good team/plan for anti-fraud, because merchant fraud is a different beast from e-tail fraud...
Comment · 12 years ago
Hm. I think this is the real answer.
Comment · 12 years ago
If people like the app then it is useful. I don't think Apple should be trying to censor apps that people like.
Comment · 12 years ago
Depending on what niche the website is in and how much traffic you get, you can potentially make decent money with the right affiliate program.
You can also upsell consulting services (again, depending on the niche).
Comment · 12 years ago
Too bad "get your new website out of our organic search sandbox with manual approval" is not one of the features provided.
Comment · 12 years ago
Chicago has a group called "Open City" that builds open-source applications for the city.
Link: http://opencityapps.org/
One thing you could do is look through their apps (they're all open source & on github) and figure out which ones might make sense for your city.
You can then clone the apps you like, configure them for your city (many cities use the Socrata data platform, so this may be simply a config change in some cases) and deploy it for your city.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yeah, I was confused by that as well. I don't see how you could have any books of any sort and not notice the discrepancy.
Comment · 12 years ago
Braintree was bootstrapped until pretty late
Comment · 12 years ago
I never check into restaurants -- I don't see the point. But I regularly check yelp to see reviews of new restaurants that spring up. Then I go check out the new restaurants with good reviews. (I live in Chicago.)