rmorrison

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by rmorrison 16y ago
Wow. My company has been trying to decide between setting up our HQ in San Francisco or further down the bay. I think we have our answer.
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Advice for YC applicants on the fence(blog.rmorrison.org)
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Thanks for your comment. I'd be happy to talk about it with you more, and potentially setup a demo against your data. If you're interested, please email me at my username at comprehendclinical.com, or fill out this form: http://www.compr
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Yes, we sell Comprehend Clinical as a deployable Enterprise Java application that our customers install in house. Besides just HIPAA, the clinical industry also has to comply with Title 21 CFR Part 11 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_21
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by rmorrison 16y ago
We are definitely a good alternative to Spotfire and/or Tableau, and we offer competitive pricing depending on your situation. If you think you would find Comprehend Clinical useful, request a demo and we'll set something up. Feel free to
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Supposedly the same thing happens with coffee too. Starbucks does the expensive market research, and then other chains build near Starbucks.
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Rob Sheridan has been doing a lot of the artwork for Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the past several years. He's extremely talented, and I highly recommend looking through some of his other work, which you can find on his portfolio a
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by rmorrison 16y ago
The last part of the title, "via cookies" still concerns me, ever since seeing the evercookie project ( http://samy.pl/evercookie/ ). There are so many other ways for sites to track users besides normal cookies. This is a good start on Goog
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Be very careful that you do not use copyrighted source code for which you do not have right, which includes open source licenses like the GPL in your proprietary codebase. When the time comes for your company to be purchased, it's likely th
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by rmorrison 16y ago
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat a
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by rmorrison 16y ago
There's a similar problem with law. While there are attorneys who get jobs at big law and make $150k+ starting, a significant percentage of students entering law school this year will not get a positive return on investment over the course
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by rmorrison 16y ago
That's not all the companies want/need. Paul is most likely one of several investors for each company he invests in, probably through convertible notes which are becoming "the norm": http://paulgraham.com/superangels.html
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by rmorrison 16y ago
It's great to see Selective Sync in there! The only other big feature I'd like to see is an easy way to host several Dropboxes on one computer!
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by rmorrison 16y ago
I agree there are problems with patents and imperfections in the process through which they're granted, but how are they stealing?
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Also, read about what ethanol subsidies are doing to prices elsewhere. Farmers are replacing fields of grains and other crops with corn, in part because corn was already profitable before the subsidies. This has in turn increased the pric
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by rmorrison 16y ago
I am a firm supporter of Prop 19, but I have one major concern: that as cannabis laws are eased in the US, gangs and criminals that used to make their living from pushing cannibis will start pushing harder drugs (like cocaine), causing an i
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by rmorrison 16y ago
It should be mandatory for any incoming politician to take a couple introductory economics courses before serving. There are too many laws where incentives are not aligned properly, fundamentally dooming the policy to failure. A good examp
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by rmorrison 16y ago
It would be really awesome if YC put on some type of match-making event for single founders to find co-founders in person. Like a speed dating event for startups. I feel like that would be somewhat counter-productive for YC. They're looki
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Ha, I saw these cars multiple times this past week in San Francisco, including turning from Broadway onto Columbus in heavy traffic. If that was done autonomously, then I'd be very impressed since I have trouble navigating through those in
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Another big reason: money is not an issue. You want to create ten interconnected tables w/ a bajillion records each, then query across them needlessly every microsecond? No problem, with enough money and hardware there are ways to make al
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by rmorrison 16y ago
It's not the best investment in history: there are people who have won more than $100,000,000 on a single $1 lottery ticket.
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by rmorrison 16y ago
I also think Adobe is somewhat responsible, it seems like yet another case of them not looking out for there users best interests. Also, I'm writing this post from my Flashless iPad, and it makes me feel even better about Apples's decision.
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by rmorrison 16y ago
My grandparents are old (mid to late 90s) and still have an incredible memory. I find their descriptions of the world they grew up in to be fascinating. Some examples: * his amazement when he learned that somebody had received a radio sign
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by rmorrison 16y ago
If anybody is interested in honing their Chess Tactics skills, I highly recommend: http://chess.emrald.net/ It's quick and easy to setup an account, and presents you chess puzzles based on your skill level.
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by rmorrison 16y ago
If you have experience with your startup partnering (or trying to partner) with Oracle, could you please contact me? Particularly, if Oracle added your product to their price lists (or if you were trying to make this happen). Thank you very
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by rmorrison 16y ago
For what it's worth, it took me several years before I really understood programming. I distinctly remember thinking that I wasn't making progress, and that I was wasting my time writing silly programs that didn't do anything useful. Howev
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Carl Icahn was probably talking about Fortune 500 CEOs, which are a different breed than startup CEOs. It's common knowledge that founding CEOs usually cannot run a company well when there are hundreds of employees, and visa versa. They re
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by rmorrison 16y ago
It seems like a major identity-theft liability to distribute your EIN or SSN to everybody who's bought $600 worth of goods or services. If you're doing consulting work, you should have incorporated and therefore have an EIN (which I suspec
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by rmorrison 16y ago
Let's track him down. Give him a computer. And finally get an unbiased opinion: vim or emacs?
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by rmorrison 16y ago
It seems everybody believes they live in an above average location for startups, similar to how everybody believes they are smarter than average. I grew up 10 minutes from Hew Hope, PA, then moved to Philadelphia, and recently moved to San

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