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All diabetics ever have is a rear facing indicator, fortunately it's not really true that you can't predict the future when it comes to blood glucose. The simple equation is `exercise + carbs + current blood glucose level + insulin on board` along with all the attributes that make your body respond to artificial insulin the way it will. The system doesn't really need to predict the future to be a massive improvement on where diabetics already are thanks to slow moving organizations like the FDA. With appropriately cautious buffers around when to shut the insulin pump off a huge majority of diabetics will rarely see a low blood sugar. The technology is here, we just have to summon up the will to move medicine forward.
Better fighters have been produced in far less time for far less money. I think it's receiving so much attention on HN because it's an example of poor engineering.
<!-- So this guy we just interviewed at my current job wrote this little script to see if a product update for some company had come out. Every 10 seconds the script urllib'ed the page, checked the length of the html - literally len(html) - against the length it was last time it checked. He wrote a blog post about this script. A freaking blog post. He also described himself as "something of a child prodigy" despite, in another post, saying he couldn't calculate the area of a slice of pizza because "area of a triangle with a curved edge is beyond my Google-less math skills." Seriously dude? I haven't taken geomtry in 20 years, and pi*r^2/8 seems pretty freaking obvious.
The script also called a ruby script to send him a tweet which another script was probably monitoring to text his phone so he could screenshot the text and post to facebook via instagram.
I think the "millenials" - who should be referred to as generation byte - get undeserved flak, as all generations do, for being younger and prettier and living in a different world.
But this kid calling himself a prodigy is a clear indication of way too many gold stars handed out for adequacy, so to ensure that no such abominable script ever does anything besides bomb somebody's twitter account, this comment shows up exactly 50% of the time, and I encourage others to do the same. -->
Found my new favorite blogger; s'cept for PG.
To do it right use the HATEOAS constraint. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
And use application/hal+json http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
The more we follow these simple constraints the more we can start to build tooling to consume any API without having to know much about it ahead of time.
That said, well written article.
Please go watch the Foundation Philip Rosedale interview and learn about his concept before you dismiss it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irF-V9RUuXo