barendt

Penn Medicine - Philadelphia, PA (ONSITE)

Associate Web Developer, Web Developer, Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for web developers of all skill-levels at Penn Medicine.

All of our new applications are being built in Ruby on Rails, but we’ve got over a decade of legacy PHP code so you’d be spending time in both environments. We work agilely and in small teams (~3 developers and 1 product owner per team) organized loosely around different themes (e.g., medical school admissions, faculty data, research data).

We’ve got a bit more about the open positions on our website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmacs/jobs.html), but I’m happy to chat (barendt@mail.med.upenn.edu) if you’ve got questions or would like to know more.

Penn Medicine - Philadelphia, PA (ONSITE)

Associate Web Developer, Web Developer, Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for web developers of all skill-levels at Penn Medicine.

All of our new applications are being built in Ruby on Rails, but we’ve got over a decade of legacy PHP code so you’d be spending time in both environments. We work agilely and in small teams (~3 developers and 1 product owner per team) organized loosely around different themes (e.g., medical school admissions, faculty data, research data).

We’ve got a bit more about the open positions on our website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmacs/jobs.html), but I’m happy to chat (barendt@mail.med.upenn.edu) if you’ve got questions or would like to know more.

Penn Medicine - Philadelphia, PA (ONSITE)

Associate Web Developer, Web Developer, Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for web developers of all skill-levels at Penn Medicine.

All of our new applications are being built in Ruby on Rails, but we’ve got over a decade of legacy PHP code so you’d be spending time in both environments. We work agilely and in small teams (~3 developers and 1 product owner per team) organized loosely around different themes (e.g., medical school admissions, faculty data, research data).

We’ve got a bit more about the open positions on our website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmacs/jobs.html), but I’m happy to chat (barendt@mail.med.upenn.edu) if you’ve got questions or would like to know more.

What alternatives are people using for Evernote that support more than just text?

The main draw Evernote has for me is the ability to attach an arbitrary number of files to a note, add some additional text or a useful title, and then search on those notes across iOS and OS X devices. I've been increasingly frustrated by how buggy and complicated Evernote has gotten so I'd be happy to try alternatives that might be out there.

Penn Medicine - Philadelphia, PA (ONSITE)

Associate Web Developer, Web Developer, Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for web developers of all skill-levels at Penn Medicine.

All of our new applications are being built in Ruby on Rails, but we’ve got over a decade of legacy PHP code so you’d be spending time in both environments. We work agilely and in small teams (~3 developers and 1 product owner per team) organized loosely around different themes (e.g., medical school admissions, faculty data, research data).

We’ve got a bit more about the open positions on our website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmacs/jobs.shtml), but I’m happy to chat (barendt@mail.med.upenn.edu) if you’ve got questions or would like to know more.

Philadelphia, PA - Penn Medicine

Associate Web Developer, Web Developer, Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for web developers of all skill-levels at Penn Medicine.

All of our new applications are being built in Ruby on Rails, but we’ve got over a decade of legacy PHP code so you’d be spending time in both environments. We work agilely and in small teams (~3 developers and 1 product owner per team) organized loosely around different themes (e.g., medical school admissions, faculty data, research data).

We’ve got a bit more about the open positions on our website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmacs/jobs.shtml), but I’m happy to chat (barendt@mail.med.upenn.edu) if you’ve got questions or would like to know more.

Really minor nitpick - I think Matz claimed that about 30% of his prior RubyConf predictions were false, so about 70% of his prior RubyConf ideas eventually did make it to production.

I'm using it on some older hardware (2011 MacBook Pro) and it's been working just fine for me. It's maybe a bit more sluggish than Mountain Lion on the same hardware, but the difference is small enough that that might just be in my head.

Philadelphia, PA - Penn Medicine

Associate Web Developer, Web Developer, Senior Web Developer

We’re looking for web developers of all skill-levels at Penn Medicine.

All of our new applications are being built in Ruby on Rails, but we’ve got over a decade of legacy PHP code so you’d be spending time in both environments. We work agilely and in small teams (~3 developers and 1 product owner per team) organized loosely around different themes (e.g., medical school admissions, faculty data, research data).

We’ve got a bit more about the open positions on our website (https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmacs/jobs.shtml), but I’m happy to chat (barendt@mail.med.upenn.edu) if you’ve got questions or would like to know more.

Is there another PHP framework you would recommend? I'm about to start looking at Symfony as a replacement for our aging, home-grown PHP framework. I'm partial to Django, but since PHP is a requirement I could use thoughts on PHP alternatives.

Can anyone recommend a keyboard where key presses are very low impact?

I'm getting Emacs Pinky in most of my fingers and could use something to reduce stress on them. dcolgan's suggest key mappings are something I'm going to try, but a better keyboard can't hurt, either.

My vote is probably not. The plausibility of these things is pretty important. With the aspirin heart attack prevention example mentioned in the text, we have a plausible biological mechanism to give us reason to expect an effect, so we can be satisfied with more equivocal data. I'm not aware of a plausible mechanism for precognition - in fact, it seems like precognition would probably require a bunch of other things we think true to be false to work - so I'll need much stronger evidence than this to accept it.

Also, a thought - if precognition is possible, why don't we see more of it? Being able to improve recall of words is nifty and all, but it seems like it'd give you a huge advantage catching prey or evading predators so I'd expect to see evidence of it all over the place.

The common cold's actually a tough one. There are so many different viruses that cause "the common cold" and an anti-viral would probably only work on one of them.

Just putting together a clinical trial would be incredibly expensive because of the difficulties in picking out patients who have the virus your drug treats while they're still early enough on in their illness to be treatable. I may be wrong, but I thought that there actually were some early phase trials of a drug to treat rhinovirus, but they were stopped because of logistical difficult and expense.