randomh3r0

2 miesiące temudiscuss

Totally agree but I think that it's fairly common for an enterprise company (like GitHub) to also have a central place that platform publishes these kinds of updates in addition to socials. I think it's odd, personally, that it's literally only been announced on twitter without a link to an announcements page or similar. Lots of enterprises still block crap like twitter and facebook, so it feels goofy to broadcast this _only_ to a source that paying customers may not even be able to access it.

randomh3r0

2 lata temudiscuss

Very interested in the parsing parts for file-format validation. I used to use 010 editor and had written several parsers for various files but I no longer have a license for that but wish I had a way to interpret files to check against a standard like this offers. Thanks for sharing!

randomh3r0

3 lata temudiscuss

Reminds me of the unsung hero who was selflessly patching and fixing AOE2 for many many years before the AOE2 HD stuff on steam. These people are awesome.

randomh3r0

3 lata temudiscuss

Would love to chat with someone about some of the teams needs as I spent about 7 years in the medical imaging space (specifically cloud enablement of DICOM viewers and tools). I'm not specifically on the market but would at least love to make a connection in case my skills would be a good fit for the team. Any opportunity for us to connect and discuss at some point?

randomh3r0

3 lata temudiscuss

I used to work on a platform like this and loved the challenges. Followed you all on LinkedIn!

randomh3r0

3 lata temudiscuss

Sheesh openslide was an absolute game changer when I was writing code to be able to utilize digital pathology and microscopy data in a browser. They've done some awesome work. I really enjoyed learning about the different formats and can't recommend the resources at OpenSlide enough.

randomh3r0

3 lata temudiscuss

Absolutely fair. The vendors have gotten much much better tech "in the room" as it were - CT's are lightning fast anymore, US is clearer and can do more on-the-fly analysis than ever before (e.g. highlighting bloodflow dynamically and capturing tons of data in microseconds), etc. Every modality has grown tremendously so my comment wasn't nearly fair enough in acknowledging that.

Downstream is getting better with items such as AI advancements and more sophisticated mechanisms to transfer data between systems both on-prem and cloud-based, however utilization of all of this tend to be stifled a ton by the standard issue of tech moving faster than policy. My frustration/disgruntlement is due to this issue more than anything.

Thanks for the insight and the reminder that my bubble of experience isn't the world - seriously.

randomh3r0

3 lata temudiscuss

Eh.. you'd be surprised. Medical Imaging isn't as radical as you may think it is (I spent 7 years doing projects for the exploitation of medical images).

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

I've hit the same walls as you have described and found that it's less about cognitive function and more about a combination of burnout, imposter syndrome, and some quirks of my ADHD. I still love to program but when I get the chance to I largely can't organize my thoughts well enough to make much progress, but its because I left a job about 7 months ago where I had been repeatedly hitting burnout in a really nasty several-year long cycle. Now when I sit down to do it I have a thousand things in my brain and I can't stay focused on it. I switched to managing individuals as well over the last few years since I have some natural giftings there but it's made it so that my skills at just zoning in and coding for hours is effectively atrophied since I am so interrupt-driven as a manager (constant emails/IMs and being mindful of my team who I should be supporting rather than my own personal technical goals)..

I've found I need to stop comparing myself to my late twenties self and understand that my burdens are different and I need to set different expectations of myself. As my responsibilities and noise/interference have grown, my ability to do complex design/development has been inversely effected and waned significantly and _that's ok_. I need better tools and to be better at managing my time and energies to be more targeted/specific and I am much more effective than I was all those years ago. I just have to be more intentional and forgiving of myself.

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

Being CEO means making difficult decisions, and it isn't realistic to expect a CEO to only serve during good times. That said, I think it would go a long way towards appeasement if the messaging was more along the lines of "I will be withholding payment to myself until such time as we're in the black again" or something similar showing personal consequences beyond "mea culpa!" nonsense PR messaging.

Maybe it's reasonable to expect a CEO to resign when layoffs happen during a market upswing but... during a market downturn like this it's kind of inevitable to see layoffs in a services-based company when services are the some of the easiest things for consumers to scale back on when belt-tightening occurs. A change in leadership would only further hurt the people staying in the company, IMO.

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

Same. I've no interest in working for someone like this again... no matter how incredible the team they've build around them may be.

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

While maybe my view is a bit myopic here, I think the harsh reality of the world is that it's very difficult to find an opportunity where all you do is write brand new code outside of a small/early stage startup. The numbers just don't make sense to constantly reinvent the wheel, even though many developers love and prefer that. In truth the best developers I've ever worked with and managed have a good intuition about when the re-use vs re-build and I support them in that. Developers who try to push too hard one way or the other often end up taking way longer than they should have to get a task done. As with darn near everything else in life - it's all about balance. That's my 2 cents anyways.

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

Is the assumption here being that all employees would prefer 100% WFH?

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

*supported by every medical imaging device manufacturer going back something like 3+ decades.

This is much less of a problem of shiny-object-syndrome not providing a "better" way of solving the problem(s) and much more one of market inertia, IMO. Many people overlook this.

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

We lived predominantly in the .NET world and leveraged Fellow Oak Dicom pretty heavily, but when I did have to use anything in Java-land we pretty much always leveraged dcm4che, as it did what we needed and we didn't need to monkey with it much. Ultimately given my ignorance of that ecosystem I'd be hard pressed to advise about the need or demand in Java one way or the other unfortunately. Sorry about that!

You made me shudder by mentioning BizTalk just now, though. I had long since shut that way in the corners of my mind.

randomh3r0

4 lata temudiscuss

It also goes well beyond just talking about the imagery itself or the metadata surrounding it, and the standard contains its own network protocol effectively for transmitting data between PACS systems and other endpoints. (I recently worked in medical imaging for over 6 years and know DICOM fairly well, warts and all).

That said, there are absolutely better ways of handling almost any of the cases DICOM supports, the issue is that there is almost no standard that is fully backwards compatible which supports everything DICOM does, so we're sorta shackled to it for better or worse. Otherwise you have to deal with trying to explain to underfunded clinics (not the Mayo or Cleveland type) around the world why their expensive machine that they bought second or third hand is no longer acceptable.

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