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MedXT (YC W13) Announces FDA-Cleared Medical Image Platform(techcrunch.com)
84 points by brown 12y ago|21 comments
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Top Bitcoin questions I’ve been asked(medium.com)
82 points by brown 13y ago|98 comments
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by brown 13y ago
2-4 years is standard. I bet he left a lot of cash on the table.
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by brown 13y ago
That's a classic arbitrage strategy. It works. The only reason that traditional "big" finance isn't doing it yet is that Bitcoin is too small/new. As for risks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar
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by brown 13y ago
Shameless self promotion: MedXT (YC W13) is a cloud RIS/PACS with HTML5 viewer. We provide private DICOM endpoints with unlimited storage and archiving. https://www.medxt.com We're currently in private beta. If inte
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by brown 13y ago
There is a difference between "motive" and "justification". The government's motive is oil, money, growth in scope, etc. The government's justification is terrorism. So this conversation is absolutely related t
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by brown 13y ago
Project Euler ( http://projecteuler.net/ ) is great for this kind of thing. The problems start simple, which is perfect for the "learn the syntax" / "learn the tools" phase. Then the problems get hard
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by brown 13y ago
I generally agree with your main point (that knowing about reference hardware is burdensome). However, your specific example (printers) is outdated. Both Linux and OSX use CUPS, which was acquired by Apple in 2007. Linux printer support i
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by brown 14y ago
It's 7am PST, and most of the comments here are "I don't understand you silicon valley people, that doesn't make sense". So, I'll share my two cents. I'm from a modest background in the Midwest. My first tech job was in Seattle (better th
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by brown 14y ago
I do. I do research elsewhere, and then go to Amazon for price shopping. Asus in particular was best on Amazon.
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by brown 14y ago
If we're talking about legal purposes, then names are a pretty poor primary key. In such situations, SSN or other UUID would be superior. For any recreational/social purpose, what's the point of requiring legal name? How many "John Smith"
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by brown 14y ago
I did that for a couple years. I highly recommend it as a learning experience, but I concluded that $50/year is absolutely 100% worth it.
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by brown 14y ago
Misleading headline. 61.8% chance of winning. Expected 50.5% of popular vote.
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by brown 14y ago
Good developers know that writing code is only 1/10th of the work. Then you have to test it, write automated tests, support it, maintain it, etc, etc. I have contributed to open source before. I often have time/energy to write the origina
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by brown 14y ago
I ran a company in the Philippines for two years. It was a good experience -- good, not great. Pros: * Cheap -- You can make it as cheap as you want. You can get down to $100-$200 per month if you're aggressive. But understand that you w
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by brown 15y ago
I now listen to the majority of my music on Youtube. Most of the songs I want to listen to are there. For free. And legally. It kills me that Google, owner of Youtube, would not directly integrate Youtube and Google Music. I can only as
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by brown 15y ago
Yes, exactly what ams6110 said. The change tracking just isn't compatible enough. If you have a completely plain vanilla document -- no formatting, no line breaks, no headers, no footers, no tables, nothing -- then OpenOffice/LibreOffice's
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by brown 15y ago
Yep. In particular, "track changes". As soon as you have to collaborate on a document with a lawyer or a counterparty, track changes becomes a must-have. I'm not quite as pessimistic. These are solvable problems. It's just taking a real
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by brown 15y ago
I have not written production C++ in over 5 years. For those of you who are still in the trenches with C++, do you view this as an improvement? Put another way... Which would you view as the better engineering investment: refactoring/rew
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by brown 15y ago
Globalization. The median "American" male worker makes less. What about globally?
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by brown 15y ago
That's the equivalent of explaining how to spell "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" -- yeah, it's an English word, but it's ridiculous and nobody really expects you to know how to spell it. Most simplified characters can be explained with
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by brown 15y ago
> What would be the point anyway in knowing my friend had a high score in a game I wouldn't play? It's only spam. Most of us hate this kind of stuff. I know I do. It's super annoying. Furthermore, as a game developer, it would kill m
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by brown 15y ago
Interesting TED talk by Emotiv founder: http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_br...
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by brown 15y ago
Our small company linked free open source Asterisk servers in US, Philippines, and India (10-100 people per location). It's doable, but has a significant learning curve. I'd recommend hiring a professional to help you set it up and train
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by brown 15y ago
Reminds me of strategy saying, "If you jump off a building, you're moving fastest right before you hit the ground."
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by brown 16y ago
In my more idealistic days, I would have agreed with you. However, if you want to be a pragmatic entrepreneur, you shouldn't lock yourself out of a huge audience like that. It's the equivalent of saying "don't build apps for Windows, they
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by brown 16y ago
My guess is that we're seeing the results of the tech blogger echo chamber. These self proclaimed experts need methods to legitimize their existence and quantify their awesomeness. What better way than a big fat number on the one end-all-
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by brown 16y ago
Nokia doesn't want that though. Nokia leadership views "just a phone hardware manufacturer" as a doomed fate in a commodity business, much like PC manufacturers have been a commodity for the past 10-20 years. Granted, Dell has done alrigh
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by brown 16y ago
Maybe not H&R Block, but Intuit (TurboTax) sure does... Why Can’t the I.R.S. Help Fill in the Blanks? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/business/24digi.html?_r=1 Intuit's end-run http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/21/opinion/la-oe-
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by brown 16y ago
I didn't believe this at first. Sadly, it is real: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

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