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Hospital janitor becomes a doctor
Match day for doctors is always a big deal. When a doctor is placed at a hospital in which she was a janitor? Inspiring.
For about a decade, Shay Taylor-Allen walked the halls of Yale New Haven Hospital pushing a janitor’s cart. She mopped patient rooms, disinfected surfaces and emptied the trash.
Soon, she’ll walk the halls of the hospital again, this time wearing a white coat.
Taylor-Allen, 32, recently matched into an anesthesiology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital — where she spent most of her adult life working as part of the cleaning staff.
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Web design museum
The web is old enough to host a website dedicated to designs of major websites,
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Complexity and simplicity
Any experienced software engineer or architect understands the nature of trade-offs versus complexity and simplicity. The culture and software development often rewards the complex solution over a simple one because there is a narrative to something complex. Or as with something simple, it’s simply “this was done.”
Picture two engineers on the same team. Engineer A gets assigned a feature. She looks at the problem, considers a few options, and picks the simplest. A straightforward implementation, maybe 50 lines of code. Easy to read, easy to test, easy for the next person to pick up. It works. She ships it in a couple of days and moves on.
Engineer B gets a similar feature. He also looks at the problem, but he sees an opportunity to build something more “robust.” He introduces a new abstraction layer, creates a pub/sub system for communication between components, adds a configuration framework so the feature is “extensible” for future use cases. It takes three weeks. There are multiple PRs. Lots of excited emojis when he shares the document explaining all of this.
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The AI assault on the last of the open web
The threat to the open web is far more profound than just some platforms that are under siege. The most egregious harm is the way that the generosity and grace of the people who keep the web open is being abused and exploited. Those people who maintain open source software? They’re hardly getting rich — that’s thankless, costly work, which they often choose instead of cashing in at some startup. Similarly, volunteering for Wikipedia is hardly profitable. Defining super-technical open standards takes time and patience, sometimes over a period of years, and there’s no fortune or fame in it.
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Red roof Pizza Hut locations
Red roof Pizza Hut locations taste like nostalgia, and a cure for the DoorDash blues. What’s crazy, is that even the corporation that owns Pizza Hut doesn’t even know how many of these locations still exist.
Once a common sight across the country, these old-school, low-slung buildings had largely disappeared as the restaurant chain modernized its stores and focused on takeout. Mr. Pujol, a journalist who documents retro American highway culture, says he “freaked out,” and swerved into the parking lot.
He had not discovered an abandoned relic from the Reagan era. As a plaque near the door explained, this restaurant in Tunkhannock, Pa., was a Pizza Hut Classic. The interior design and menu had been painstakingly engineered to replicate the Pizza Huts of the 1980s and ’90s, when families and friends settled into red-vinyl booths on a Friday night to eat deep-dish pan pizza and drink Pepsi from red plastic cups.
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How much does it cost to hire a college mascot for a wedding?
This is the hard hitting journalism we need: how much does it cost to hire a college mascot for a wedding?
Last offseason, we asked, Does anyone object to having a Mascot at this Wedding?since we saw Goldy the Gopher at a wedding. We created a spreadsheet with all the mascot costs and broke it down conference by conference.
Now, we’re back again with a partnership with FOIAball, and we asked a question about which mascots were booked the most and what the mascots were booked for, and we also updated rates of some of the mascots we couldn’t get wedding prices for previously and ones that have changed.
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Electricity price heat map
Here is an interactive heat map of electricity prices across the country. It can be broken down at state, congressional, county, and ZIP Code levels
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Architects reviewed Trump’s ballroom
Architects are notoriously detailed people. And they have some feedback regarding Trump’s ballroom. The New York Times has a good article with interactive scrolling details that show the issues.
