Getting One's Fak Straight

Getting the story straight

We argue that the use of a user-centred design approach necessarily involves some form of storytelling or narrative. Given that both the potential end-users and the designers themselves often (perhaps usually) have different interests and points-of-view to present, the resultant co-constructed narrative describing the desired interactive system is inevitably the product of compromise. We descri...

Getting it Straight: Avoiding Blunders While Criticizing a Peer's Work.

Getting it Straight: Avoiding Blunders While Criticizing a Peer’s Work Steven G Achinger, Alan S Go and Juan Carlos Ayus* Department of Nephrology, Watson Clinic, LLP – Lakeland, FL, USA, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA, Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, Re...

Getting Priorities Straight: Improving Linux Support for Database I/O

The Linux 2.6 kernel supports asynchronous I/O as a result of propositions from the database industry. This is a positive evolution but is it a panacea? In the context of the Badger project, a collaboration between MySQL AB and University of Copenhagen, we evaluate how MySQL/InnoDB can best take advantage of Linux asynchronous I/O and how Linux can help MySQL/InnoDB best take advantage of the u...

Getting the facts straight on health care reform.

n engl j med 361;26 nejm.org december 24, 2009 2497 bill before the Senate would cover most uninsured Americans, sav­ ing thousands of lives each year and putting an end to our status as the only developed country that places so many of its citizens at risk for medical bankruptcy. Moreover, the bills would accom­ plish this aim while reducing the federal deficit over the next de­ cade and beyon...

Setting the record straight for fossil flying fishes versus non-flying ones: a comment