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I just took my 9 year old to MADE while visiting SF and we had a great time. He loved trying out the older systems and we spent at least 5 hours there!

I think there are many RoR projects that continue to run, so probably demand still there - we've been maintaining several RoR projects for 7+ years. Recently we've stepped into several JS projects that have 2-3 competing JS frameworks in the same project. Any project becomes difficult to maintain over time without a continuous and thoughtful investment of time, but at least Rails doesn't have that particular problem of framework churn (even if parts of it may change as a whole it has an upgrade path that is well trodden). We do a lot of React/Next.js etc. work, but for the most part Rails is what we reach for (maybe with a sprinkling of React) when we have a standard web project, ie. most of them.

I took a year sabbatical in 2008 and it was one of the highlights of my life. I backpacked through parts of India, South America and Africa. I had a very strong desire to travel and see more of the world so it fulfilled that need for me (without spending a lot of money). I feel incredibly lucky that I was in a position to be able to it. Career wise it didn't change my trajectory very much - I came back fresh and highly motivated again. The only caveat to this is that sometimes it turns out that work is not the core issue (although maybe it is easier to have clarity on this after an extended break) and if so probably time to think about starting therapy.

Update: It worked! The power supply arrived (along with the adhesives that they provided for the bottom black ring - I'd forgotten to order those I guess they just include them with all orders?). After a 10 minute replacement the studio is back up and running.

Yes, thanks (my comment above is the short version). I cleaned where I found coffee with 99% isopropyl alcohol and qtips. No go unfortunately. When it happened I wasn't thinking and left the Studio turned on while I cleaned up everything else, I'd imagine that did not help.

I'm going through the Apple self repair process currently and it has been excellent. I spilled coffee that managed to get inside my Mac Studio (via the front ports) and it stopped powering up. I downloaded the self repair manual and followed the instructions to disassemble it; found coffee on the power supply which may have caused the problem. I ordered a replacement power supply from the very well organized self repair order site. I was also happy to see that they promote recycling by giving you a good amount of money back if you send the old parts in. I'll find out on Monday if my theory about the power supply is correct :)

I don't know how much of this is due to the new regulations, but it has been a very smooth process.

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Spending time with my family and extended family, getting them all together, watching my kids and their cousins play.

Working on hard problems and achieving flow state.

Mountain biking.

Many years ago when applying for a somewhat similar program at another big company I went through something similar. Bunch of us in a room with a difficult to solve problem, not enough time, and at the end we had to do a group presentation on our solution. I don't know if it was exactly an asshole test, it was also to see how people worked in a group generally. Even if it is somewhat artificial people's personalities quickly became apparent. I really enjoyed it :)

Obligatory link to my wife’s posting about Vit D

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-1-back-to-basi...

This is an excellent question (and reading through those articles now, thank you). I know she thinks about this a lot because her patients bring her research which is obviously broken, but why should they trust her? In her specific case she has done thousands and thousands of an extremely specialized operation - one of very few people in the world to have done that many. She keeps an open mind of course, but she also sees a lot of harm done. Medical research is hard, lots of confounding factors, and almost all the time in her particular area researchers have a very small n, so they draw conclusions because of the small n (and because they are often just not good at research, they are doctors!). I'm sure the scientific method will come through in the long run, that's my opinion, but along the way it is doing a lot of harm too.

My wife and I were just talking about this yesterday. She is an extremely specialized surgeon and she is horrified by the academic publishing in her area of expertise. It is often utterly wrong and conflicts directly with her experience. I'm not sure she'd agree with the reasons mentioned in this article here as the main issue - although we have personally seen less ethically motivated doctors publishing research to help line their pockets via the industry. In her opinion the main issue is that academic doctors HAVE to publish in order to advance their careers. So you end up with a never ending stream of terrible research, churned out by doctors that are not experts in doing research and that actually spend most of their time doing other things. This happens even at the best centers; at least in her area of expertise. I don't know what the solution is, but I do know that whenever she has needed treatment for herself she generally ignores most of the research and talks to the most experienced surgeon she can find.

One of my children is in 5th grade in a school that is well known for a rigorous education. She does well, probably the top student or at least one of the top in her year, but I find that her lack of understanding of what she is studying is a bit worrying. She learns the material well for the tests but really has very little depth of knowledge, as the author describes for his daughter in this article. I sometimes ask her questions about what she is studying and if it is outside the narrow confines of what she needs to know she will not have thought about it - she doesn’t have time! I think the idea is to set down a base of knowledge that will then be there for the kids when they need go more in depth later, or at least I hope so. She really enjoys school and it is better for her than her previous school where she was very bored, but I’m not yet convinced of the long term benefits of this type of education.

Rails, Postgres, some hosted provider like heroku (unless you feel comfortable managing a linode/droplet).

Excellent write up. Reading a thorough, detailed and open postmortem like this makes me respect the company. They may have issues but it sounds like the type of company that (hopefully) does not blame, has open processes, and looks to improve - the type of company I'd want to work for!

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My wife is trying to work on price transparency at her practice by offering bundled rates for the surgery she does. She has worked with all the various providers - anasthesia, pathology, the hospital etc to come up with a cash rate that she publishes on her website for the surgery. Most of the parties are very open to it but also extremely worried about outliers. Patients that end up costing 10x what was expected due to complications. For her this is a minuscule risk, but in her negotiations it has been their main worry.

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I have frontier fiber in FL and it is rock solid, one of the better ISPs I have had. This is ex Verizon territory though.

If you need some background on Vitamin D, its mechanisms, effects and some thoughts on the evidence, I suggest reading my wife's series on it (she was on here previously, parathyroid surgeon who deals with calcium and therefore Vitamin D):

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-1-back-to-basi...

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-3-the-evidence

> Quick rant on just scaling the tech: It's a monolith rails app with a react front end. I chose a boring tech stack because I feel that speed is the most important thing when creating a company. From there, I typically see progressive steps like this:

> 1 Pure vanilla proven web stack of choice (rails, django, laravel). Automate eveything like linting, testing, PR app builds, 99% of devops work.

> 2 Then the front end grows into an SPA as functionality becomes more complex

> 3 More microservices like search emerge into their own thing

This is pretty much the pattern that we've followed for a few companies and has worked great for us. Rails monolith, carving out parts of it to React as they need more interactivity. Has let us iterate quickly with few engineers while still keeping a (relatively) solid base.

Every time I read these posts I find them very depressing. Crunch through an enormous bunch of algorithm problems in order to perform well on some unrealistic whiteboard programming (I think the system engineering problems are actually more useful though) - as usual we've focused on the easy to measure metric rather than anything actually useful. Maybe these things are meant to be a proxy for how good you are at other development tasks, but it has never seemed to work out that way to me. Some of the very successful people I know at FAANG companies have told me that they would not pass the algorithm interviews without months of preparation and that they don't really use those skills.

I think the idea of these articles was to help make people more informed consumers. As Deva says:

> Finally, no one needs to blindly believe what I say - or what anyone else says - about Vitamin D. You can and should critically evaluate the evidence for yourself. Below I have listed out some of the most important RCTs and meta-analyses of RCTs, with summaries and links. When looking at meta-analyses, Cochrane always provides top quality reviews, and I often look to them first for quality analyses and thoughtful interpretations.

Deva is deep into writing part 3 at the moment (the physicians husband here) where she reviews these trials, what they mean and how they should be interpreted. I think she will be finished soon.

I'm sure Deva would be up for it, she does it for some patient groups she works with on Facebook, but I'm not sure if Hacker News is a good place for it? Also speaking as Deva's husband I think the kids and I would like to see her at dinner more, joking (she is a regular attendee at dinner), but you would not believe how much effort and time she puts into researching, thinking about and working on these things (along with everything else she is doing).

This is part two of my wife's (a parathyroid surgeon, devaboone on here) blog series on Vitamin D - it generated a good amount of interest last time and she's following up on some of the issues raised last time "what dose should I take". The first part is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138590 and some previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061164.

Amazing project! Really enjoyed playing around with it just now - so easy to create a functional and great looking map. When you say pure javascript, did you use any frameworks or supporting libraries? If not then how did you organize the code (and do you do have any type of automated testing?)

Will do, she set it up on Wix herself to learn a little about how to do all of this. I'm surprised they don't offer an RSS feed, I'll help her out with that.

edit:

The feed is apparently https://www.devaboone.com/blog-feed.xml and the Wix editor gives you no ability to add <head> tags, but there it is.