Wait, endosquid writes tax software and expects that whenever a bit of data gets corrupted it should display an account balance of 0? Please share the name of this phenomenal software product.
> There isn't an IT department in the world that can develop centralized IT solutions fast enough to keep up with the ways employees slice & dice data. That's why Excel is "overused".
It wasn't very long ago that I realized that my two decades in IT could be summed up as: making proper applications out of Excel workbooks with feeble macros. I hate Microsoft as much as the next Linux zealot, but dang if they didn't create a world in which I've made a career. Where I'm at now, I'm drowning in opportunities to ameliorate horrific Excel-based workflows, and I'm fairly confident that there's enough work out there to last me until another 20 years to retirement.
This is what screwed me over as a herbarium curator (a herbarium is a type of natural history museum for plants):
Excel completely corrupts dates before the year 1900. It just boggles the mind -- if your spreadsheet has dates for 10,000 years from now that works fine, but if there are any dates from the 19th century or earlier, it can cause big problems.
I always assumed it would be CVS that got into the game. There are are probably a dozen or so drugs that account for the majority of consumption. Flu vaccines, blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid, insulin, asthma, progesterone, beta-blockers, gerd, etc. Providing these at minimum cost, as well as community public health services. Could be enormously cost effective. And extend general wellness and productivity many times over.
>>> "the trick will be in selecting the right third-party manufacturer to ensure good quality"
Obvious subtext here is outsourcing mass market generics to be produced in India, China and other emerging markets. "Pharma-security" might be a popular way to phrase it today. Quality is undoubtedly reflected in price. And there is enormous opportunity in exponentially reducing R&D costs and finding efficiencies.
If the sky's the limit, I'd like kiva for my home.
Maybe a dumb waiter would open in the wall with a little standard sized basket. I'd name what I'm storing, like tennis racket or snow shoes, and it would whisk it away to a storage space under the house or in the walls somewhere. I ask for it by name, the house brings it back to the portal.
An uncluttered house where I can have anything I use once a year within seconds. Hoarding by way of Marie Kondo. Possibly a gross dystopian consumer fantasy, but still.
If the house could just post anything you haven't used in two years on Craigslist, then we'd really be in the future.
I'm not sure why you linked to this, but it like most to-do apps is far too simple. If I have a to-do to load my laundry, why can't it trigger a timer to remind me in 30 minutes to switch to the dryer, and then once that's marked as done another timer to take it out of the dryer?
So many to-do apps, I don't think one has solid conditional tasks or robust scheduling (repeat on 1st Monday after 60 days has passed, etc).
