Med en ökad press på både kommuner och landsting ska den dyra och helt onödiga vården av utskrivningsklara patienter halveras. De ska snabbare komma till nästa steg i vårdkedjan. Det är mål och förslag som utredaren Göran Stiernstedt i morgon överlämnar till regeringen för att göra sjukvården effektivare.

Visa mig dina riskfaktorer och jag ska säga hur gammal du blir. Eller åtminstone när du drabbas av hjärtsvikt, vilket nästan är samma sak.

I can’t stand to read App Store reviews (mine or anybody else’s) — but I was told earlier today that Vesper had a one-star review where the reviewer suggested we use WebDAV syncing.

Sure, we could do that — I thought — if I spent a year on that and did nothing else.

I also work on OmniFocus, which has WebDAV syncing, and it lets you use your own server or Omni’s. For free. This is a great feature, especially for companies and institutions required to keep all data in-house.

But here’s the thing: syncing is relatively easy if you treat it as a species of web services. That is, if the server side is a smart server with an API and a database, it’s not that bad. (Syncing is still hard, but this is the easiest way.) This is how we do it with Vesper.

Syncing by reading and writing files on a generic storage system, on the other hand, is much, much harder. It’s to Omni’s massive credit that they did this.

It’s not just harder to write, it’s also harder to support, since servers will have bugs or be misconfigured. But Omni has the resources to handle this.

This goes back to the discussion of Sustainable Software. Features are economic decisions.

Say I looked at it more closely and decided we could do it in six months instead of a year, including at least a month-and-a-half of concentrated beta testing with lots of different servers. We ship in six months (with no other updates during that six months, and definitely no Mac version). We raise the price to $24.99. We hire a support person.

If it were you, would you take that risk?

När Kristdemokraterna väljer en ny partiledning i april så kan decemberöverenskommelsen spricka. Den nya partiledningen är inte juridiskt bunden av den gamla styrelsens överenskommelser och bör därför fatta ett eget beslut, skriver KD-politikern Lars Adaktusson i en debattartikel i Svenska Dagbladet.

speedplane writes As was previously discussed on Slashdot, back in September SpaceX challenged a patent owned by Blue Origin. The technology concerned landing rockets at sea. Yesterday, the judges in the case issued their opinion stating that they are unable to initiate review of the patent on the grounds brought by SpaceX. Although at first glance this would appear to be a Blue Origin win, looking closer, the judges explained that Blue Origin's patent lacks sufficient disclosure, effectively stating that the patent is invalid, but not on the specific grounds brought by SpaceX: "Because claim 14 lacks adequate structural support for some of the means-plus-function limitations, it is not amenable to construction. And without ascertaining the breadth of claim 14, we cannot undertake the necessary factual inquiry for evaluating obviousness with respect to differences between the claimed subject matter and the prior art." If SpaceX wants to move forward against Blue Origin, this opinion bodes well for them, but they will need to take their case in front of a different court.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Utrikesdepartementet har använt sig av ambassaden i Riyadh för underhandskontakter med Saudiarabien om det omstridda samförståndsavtalet om militärt samarbete. "Vi har kontakter med Saudiarabien i alla avseenden som rör våra bilaterala relationer", säger ambassadör Dag Juhlin-Dannfeldt till SvD.

Stockholmarna ska få effektivare trafikprognoser som gör att bilister snabbt kan välja andra vägar för att slippa köeländet i huvudstaden, rapporterar Svenska Dagbladet.