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by tricky 18y ago
data can't "live" very long locked in an airtight cage...
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by tricky 18y ago
The idea of putting any logic in the database never did make much sense to me for these exact reasons. The beauty of software is it is soft (i.e. easily changed) and us hackers have learned how to manage change with tools and whatnot. Data
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by tricky 18y ago
20-30% annually? Nice. I'm a one-man startup working to solve problems in the clinical trial and research space. The sheer number of problems can be somewhat distracting and the rules daunting, but there are a lot of doctors out there with
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by tricky 18y ago
wow, i couldn't have paid you to illustrate my point any better. Where there is fear, there are opportunities.
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by tricky 18y ago
I'm serious. I get snubbed every time I mention a healthcare startup to a group of hackers. This is me saying, "hey, look, it _can_ be cool..."
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by tricky 18y ago
Is there anyone else on HN who gets excited about distributed HL7 systems and healthcare?
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by tricky 18y ago
Guitar. taught lessons to get thru h.s. and college (Best job ever for a punk kid who happens to be punctual.) Went on the road for a few years with a band (Best job ever for a beginning hacker (lots of time in the van with a laptop.)) Afte
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by tricky 18y ago
Not sure a HN writing group will take off, but I'd be all over it. A place to work on my own skills and a chance to help people who need... help would be great.
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by tricky 18y ago
Don't suppress your intense compulsion to write just because it got you into trouble a few times... It is a gift. Manage it. 1. Always send your stuff to a few friends before you hit the publish button. 2. Don't write inappropriate person
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by tricky 18y ago
start reading it tonight. it is an amazing book.
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by tricky 18y ago
No. Something more along the lines of interconnected signal processors that, after a while, achieve sort of a message pumping stasis. I think it would be interesting to evolve the network until it is able to "react" to changes in the outsi
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by tricky 18y ago
bah.. i was thinking something more along the lines of "dumb" nodes that have very simple reactions to incoming signals. It would be really interesting to apply this research: Synchronization from Disordered Driving Forces in Arrays of Cou
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by tricky 18y ago
Maybe a little off-topic, but something I've been thinking of for a while. Has anyone ever tried to build a mesh network of nodes that react to signals and fire outputs? I'd to build a few million of these and evolve them to see if they'd
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by tricky 18y ago
Err... It takes about 5 seconds per book. You finish a book, you write it down. I've been doing this for years. Sometimes it is fun to look back and see all the books I forgot I read.
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by tricky 18y ago
Not much discourse, but the guy at http://www.audioindie.com is really up on the indie music scene.
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by tricky 18y ago
Good idea. i'd just have to have the neighbor kid scan everything in, first.
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by tricky 18y ago
I do this too, but for different reasons. It just seems like interesting personal data I could analyze some day. Does anyone know a practical way to grab this data electronically for analysis? I have shoeboxes full of receipts... I could
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by tricky 18y ago
I don't agree. We were able to get sales (including international sales) by being on a tiny label run out of a guy's 1 bedroom, ant infested apt in chicago in 1999. I agree large labels make it possible to make a good living, but even back
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by tricky 18y ago
This is very common... at least with the people I know. As an example, one of my bands formed an LLC, raised $20k in "VC" and went on the road. Once we got a good enough following, our LLC put together a deal with a record company for dist
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by tricky 18y ago
Des Peres... a suburb of St. Louis. The few people I knew who got VC ended up moving west. I hope Slicehost stays.
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by tricky 18y ago
Whoops, sorry. Driver's Education - it teaches you how to drive at speed on a race track.
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by tricky 18y ago
I agree with the parent. It sounds to me like you might be in a rut. Check out Time Magazine's 100 Best Novels Since 1923 and borrow a few from your local library. Giving your brain a break from tech grind might help you see things from
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by tricky 18y ago
1) a new/obscure music blog - www.audioindie.com 2) a data tracking app for medical stats 3) clinical trial data management 4) getting my car ready for a DE event.
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by tricky 18y ago
I found Stackless Python while trying to throw together an idea for a massively parallel algorithm... worked beautifully and led me to django. Python's simplicity made me feel like I could hit the ground running, but I'd say the frameworks
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by tricky 18y ago
Tear it up, brother. I think we're in the same town and I've lived a few years in a van with a crappy band... You ever need anything give me a shout.
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by tricky 18y ago
(heavily adapted/paraphrased/quoted from 28 Feb 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Letter by Warren E. Buffett) The explanation begins with a fundamental truth: With unimportant exceptions, such as foreclosures (in which some of a seller's lo
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by tricky 18y ago
we call it 30 dime wine for $2.99 in the midwest.
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by tricky 18y ago
I'd like to second the recommendation for slicehost. Great, honest service and the tutorials are good even for those of us who think we know what we're doing.
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by tricky 18y ago
Who's to say studying the personality types before taking the test won't influence your answers? For many there is quite a disconnect between who you are and who you _think_ you are. The difference is even greater between who you are and
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by tricky 18y ago
My wife is ESFJ, too.

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