seanwoods

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by seanwoods 5y ago
Not all geothermal systems are closed loop. I have an open-loop geothermal system at my house on Cape Cod, MA. It uses the same water pump I use for my domestic water, runs it through the heat pump, and discharges back to the aquifer via
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Google Is Eating Apple's Ecosystem for Lunch(char.gd)
60 points by seanwoods 9y ago|48 comments
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by seanwoods 10y ago
couple good ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZqq-zAkGy4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FeZe5P803c
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Winter's Hated 4PM Sunsets May Become a Thing of the Past in Boston(bloomberg.com)
1 points by seanwoods 10y ago|0 comments
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by seanwoods 11y ago
Reminds me of: http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql
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by seanwoods 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
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by seanwoods 12y ago
When I say "they" I don't mean the doctors, I mean the hospital administration. They operate on a different set of incentives and motivating factors. The doctors are usually not involved in the process in a very substantive
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by seanwoods 12y ago
I am defining "unconventional" from the point of view of the physician...when compared with the common medications he/she prescribes. An outlier, in other words. Generally in a setting like the Emergency Department, which i
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by seanwoods 12y ago
One problem with most pharmacy dictionaries (e.g. First DataBank) is that it's optimized for pharmacists, not physicians. The docs want to say "give ${x} units of substance ${y}" but they can't do that because their lis
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by seanwoods 12y ago
The problem in healthcare is humans and organizations, not software. There is no will to conform to standards and foster interoperability. You can rant about it all you want, but that's the reality. The status quo exists for a reason
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by seanwoods 12y ago
I just want to second this comment. Focus on solving problems no matter what the technology is. Also, HN talks a lot about web apps, as if they are the only apps out there. Don't get me wrong, I prefer writing software for the web,
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by seanwoods 12y ago
I recently discovered Ugarit and although I haven't used it at all, it traces its lineage back to Venti (and also Git). Not sure how mature it is, but might interest some: https://www.kitten-technologies.co.uk/project&#
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by seanwoods 12y ago
This article makes it much more complicated than it needs to be. It tries to be all things to all people. In practice you're going to have to sacrifice some functionality for the sake of usability and your own sanity. When I add a CS
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by seanwoods 12y ago
I actually think the OP's suggestion is the most elegant of everything I've seen here. It's a matter of aesthetics.
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by seanwoods 13y ago
The topic of CTEs was recently discussed (with much vigor) on the SQLite users mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@sqlite.org/msg8119...
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by seanwoods 13y ago
I think this is exactly right. Often people rush to conclusions in favor of the new and shiny, but Python is a great language that works pretty darn well at the moment, even in v2.7, giving the community the freedom to fully vet their idea
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by seanwoods 13y ago
Reminds me of "the highest level feature of C" http://prog21.dadgum.com/166.html "The possibilities when compiling a switch are much more varied. It can result in a trivial series of if..else statements. It c
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by seanwoods 13y ago
I agree. This is stupid and immature.
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by seanwoods 13y ago
Appreciate the response. The problem is that the new process introduces another click where you have to select the document format. In iWork '09, you click the menu, then drag to word, then a menu opens. so 1-2 clicks vs. extra clic
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by seanwoods 13y ago
I'm disappointed not to see the "Share" menu make it into this list. In iWork '09, there's a "Share" menu. It has a few different output formats (PDF, Word, etc). When you click an output format, it expo
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by seanwoods 13y ago
I would love a combination Raspberry Pi/hard drive enclosure. This way you could tote the two around in one handy container. I'm thinking 3D printing companies could handle this "easily" -- at least for prototype??
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by seanwoods 13y ago
I blame the companies providing these services more than the consumers who sign up for them.
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by seanwoods 13y ago
At my company, we write new MUMPS code all the time. Some of this is sanely written ANSI standard MUMPS, some uses the Caché extensions. There are techniques and strategies for containing legacy code which are pretty well known in the comm
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by seanwoods 13y ago
Came here to plug the GT.M version of MUMPS, which is really great. It uses the underlying UNIX system as much as possible (so, for example, your routines are not stored in the database!) http://tinco.pair.com/bhaskar/
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by seanwoods 13y ago
You're referring to legacy MUMPS code. It's possible to write it more expressively (why do you think the examples on Wikipedia are like that?) People don't usually capture that nuance, sadly because many people don't c
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by seanwoods 13y ago
I feel like this article could have been written with half as many words and 2/3 fewer lofty concepts.
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by seanwoods 13y ago
I agree with most of this except the part about sessions. I'll assume OP does not want session ID/token garbage in the URI, to which I answer with a resounding "Amen!" It's super annoying how a once-simple Blogger blog now takes at least 3
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by seanwoods 13y ago
+1 for Pick. I've met several people who were/are Pick devotees. Also heard stories about how Dick Pick was kind of crazy.
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by seanwoods 13y ago
Agreed. It seems that the trajectory from 2.0 to 3.0 was much, much slower than the one from 3.0 to 4.0 (at least judging by data points so far). Anyone know of any reason for this?
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by seanwoods 13y ago
It's relatively straightforward to extract data from MUMPS. Epic (and many other vendors) just won't let you do it. Also, it would be nice if people didn't always associate MUMPS with that Daily WTF post. How about linking to the Wikipedi

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