seanwoods

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 seem to divine it.

> 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 legitimate engineering questions.

Between 10 and 11; wake up at 6:45

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.)

How will you know which man page to read "next"?

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 years ago (when I was a newbie) I would have followed it pretty well.

I don't think you should target people who don't know what a variable is (i.e. true newbies) but rather write a separate {tutorial,set of tutorials} for that. I like how the focus here is just C#.

I think the style/presentation is spot on - conversational without being cheeky.

Please do continue! :)

Looks like the main link is wrong:

http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2012/08/13/bsg-smartph...

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 why I ask.

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.

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.

CherryPy, Tornado, maybe others...

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. IT leadership needs to embrace a more agile model for the end users to see significant gains.

This seems like a relatively simple indexing problem to me. Why not just use another data structure to store the association for fast querying?

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-tell the same story?

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 still seemed like something you could wrap your head around in its entirety, if you tried.

Probably attached a repl to a running web server instance and interacted with it "live"?

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 desugar to these primitives.

As soon as you encounter a primitive that the IDE doesn't handle on your behalf, you're lost.

One thing I would add to Joe's comment is that if you don't know what a command/function does, look it up. This is really painful in the beginning but pays off significantly as you hone your skills.

Misleading headline. The DOT only approved one of the components, not the whole thing.

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 the Silicon Valley startups like you see here). I think this was a good path for me. I've certainly learned a lot at both companies, although the startup is much more rewarding.

Regarding graduate school, I'm not interested in paying to learn what I've already learned through experience. When I get to graduate school I'd rather study new stuff (not just learn object-oriented design...ugh).

This was my "Other"

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.

What's used in place of Ada nowadays?

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

What kinds of deductions did TurboTax reveal?

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 gain a "critical mass" in the hobbyist community, the language can still be unproven for some time (maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think Clojure [for example] has much "in the wild" use yet).

Programming language development is valuable because it exposes programmers to new ways of thinking about problems, but it's tough to translate that into monetary value in a world full of stable, time-tested alternatives.

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."

This is a great tutorial. Over the past few months I've been struggling with getting a "barebones" app up and running with Clojure. Leiningen has really come into its own in 2010 and tutorials like this will be great for people who need a basic template in order to bootstrap them into the whole experience.