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U.S. Health Care Prices are the Elephant in the Room(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
49 points by seanwoods 14y ago|55 comments
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by seanwoods 14y ago
Can the readme file please include information about what this software does and what its goals are? I realize many in this community have probably been following the project, and I vaguely recall seeing it here before, but with all the pr
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by seanwoods 14y ago
I appreciate your efforts, but this response doesn't really answer my question. It's too granular (and a bit biased). When I go to your web site, I need some context. I need business problems that this software solves. Based on the name
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by seanwoods 14y ago
What does this company actually do? Seems like you need to know a million buzz words, then take a leap, in order to figure out what problems this solves. I'm a health care informatics professional (mostly clinical, not billing) and I can't
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by seanwoods 14y ago
> This kind of comment shows how little knowledge you have about NoSQL and SQL. The question is perfectly valid. In many scenarios (not necessarily Stripe's), PostgreSQL is fast enough to do the job. Stop putting people down for legit
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by seanwoods 14y ago
Between 10 and 11; wake up at 6:45
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by seanwoods 14y ago
Takes a long time to load for me, and it's a bit jerky. I often feel like all these HTML5 effects are not needed to convey the message. (However, it's cool that the videos start playing on the scroll event.)
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by seanwoods 14y ago
How will you know which man page to read "next"?
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by seanwoods 14y ago
I think this tutorial is a fine start. I would like to see more like it! I'm coming at this as someone who knows multiple programming languages and would like to get Java and C# under my belt. I'm not exactly a newbie, but I think a few y
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by seanwoods 14y ago
Looks like the main link is wrong: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2012/08/13/bsg-smartph...
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by seanwoods 14y ago
Cool project, looks like it's more geared towards remote sync and could be used for more than a DVR. Just curious, why doesn't inotify work? (Because the directory is SSHFS-mounted, right?) Been experimenting with inotify lately which is
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by seanwoods 14y ago
I find the style that this is written in to be annoying, distracting, and a little arrogant. It's not funny at all. Just write the facts and let them stand for themselves.
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by seanwoods 14y ago
This article offers very little insight. It's just a collection of facts that most everyone knows, rounded out with a liberal dose of narcissistic filler. I really wish these articles didn't make it to the front page.
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by seanwoods 14y ago
CherryPy, Tornado, maybe others...
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by seanwoods 15y ago
Like most industries, health care tech can benefit from rapid user-oriented iteration (users = anyone, not just doctors, but doctors are frequently not engaged). Unfortunately the "enterprise" forces and entrenched interests hold this back
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by seanwoods 15y ago
This seems like a relatively simple indexing problem to me. Why not just use another data structure to store the association for fast querying?
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by seanwoods 15y ago
I use and like Vim, but I feel like the articles that make it to HN all say the same thing ("I had a conversion experience," followed by some configuration details, followed by basic keystrokes, etc). Why does everyone feel the need to re-t
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by seanwoods 15y ago
Sites like these always trigger an upswell of nostalgia for me. Looking at these old screenshots I can remember how hip I felt after installing Netscape Communicator and browsing various sites. Perl was the new frontier. The Internet stil
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by seanwoods 15y ago
Probably attached a repl to a running web server instance and interacted with it "live"?
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by seanwoods 15y ago
Regarding (a), it depends on what your definition of "magic" is. In this case, the commands he uses are basic OTP primitives that Erlang programmers will encounter on a regular basis. IDEs and such create higher level abstractions that de
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by seanwoods 15y ago
Misleading headline. The DOT only approved one of the components, not the whole thing.
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by seanwoods 15y ago
I am a self taught programmer with a BA in Political Science who works as a pseudo-project/product manager. When I graduated on 2007, I worked at a major medical software company. In 2010 I joined a more traditional software startup (not t
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by seanwoods 15y ago
This was my "Other"
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by seanwoods 15y ago
Tonido plug or similar device might be a good option? I'm considering getting one - mostly because (a) it's cool and (b) I have an at times irrational distrust of the cloud.
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by seanwoods 15y ago
What's used in place of Ada nowadays?
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by seanwoods 15y ago
I found "The Clouds" rather entertaining. Unfortunately the language in the free version is a little less frank...but it's an interesting read nonetheless. http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/clouds.htm
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by seanwoods 16y ago
What kinds of deductions did TurboTax reveal?
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Ask HN: Do you prepare your own taxes?
2 points by seanwoods 16y ago|5 comments
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by seanwoods 16y ago
It seems to be extremely difficult to create enough value in the programming language space to justify a startup. Most of the new languages we're seeing today were bootstrapped by volunteer or hobbyist efforts. Even after these languages
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by seanwoods 16y ago
This article reinforces the cost arguments that libertarian types have made for years against expanded subway/rail. Not even counting the regulatory hurdles buses are easier to get "moving."

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