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polygon.com

From AAA to doing it our way

Four veteran game developers sit around their computers. They’re hunting each other down over a game of Team Fortress 2 and talking about their childhood dreams and their futures in the industry. It will be the beginning of their journey out of AAA game development.

All four men, employed as developers for near a decade, come from different backgrounds and have ventured down different roads in life. One has a newborn daughter who occupies most of his time, while another questions whether he’ll ever want to settle down and focus on anything other than his craft.

For all of their differences, however, all four share one distinct quality. After working for a variety of developers, all four make the ubiquitous decision, apart from one another but finding strength in the common goal, to leave the only part of the industry they have ever known.

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[tea-party-of-the-dead]

[lousysharkbutt]

"QUESTING? MORE LIKE THE BEST THING HA HA”

-thor probably

[textsfromtng]

[clareithromycin]

[volouminous]

*whispers* You can be mature and respectful and still have a dirty sense of humour.

[geekishchic]

*murmurs* You can curse a lot and still be highly intelligent with a massive vocabulary.

[get-off-your-arse-its-begun]

*mumbles* You can be quiet and reserved and still be witty and even outgoing in certain circles.

[bundtfuck]

*sings* you can dance if you want to, you can leave your friends behind

[nursingisinmyblood]

fus.in

Pink Washing Is Real and It Hurts

[thisisfusion]

Pink Washing: “A company or organization that claims to care about breast cancer, but at the same time produces, manufactures and/or sells products that are linked to the disease.”

[fmtownsmarty]

http://i.imgur.com/TsDKbbF.png

[nursingisinmyblood]

[teachnology]

Check out this new app by Epocrates, called Bugs and Drugs.  This app is a partnership between Epocrates and athenahealth and leverages their microbiology data for urine, blood, and skin in the cloud.  This allows you to see the most common bugs and antibiotic sensitivities in your area. 

Similar to the reports that most institutions put out on their own isolates, this takes advantages of larger data sets to provide a better insight.  

For example, using our region here in Irvine, we’re looking at 2,000 urine samples and 1,200 blood samples.  

The only downside is that the geographic region is pretty broad (Irvine pulls up the surround 300 miles for urine, 1200 miles for skin).  I’m not sure what the geographic variation of bugs is in the surrounding 300-1200 miles, but it may not be truly specific to the area.  This is where the hospital’s own data may be more useful.

Overall, great concept and makes a great introduction to leveraging cloud data for the average physician user.  Hopefully physicians will spend some time checking out the methodology to learn more and start thinking about the cloud as an option for healthcare!

[venndaai]

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