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I feel like if you cut off time programming and spend that time working on building hype you might be able to earn a bunch more of customers earlier, which might turn out to be the difference between not needing external funds and needing them. Or the difference between being able to getting them and not getting them, if that's what you want.

Anyway best of luck!
I have never met a person who suggests comparison shopping for health care who has actually been seriously ill.

I had required emergency care 3 times before the age of 21.

If you have had a major illness requiring serious care (e.g., heart disease, cancer, organ failure, stroke), please talk about exactly how you would have comparison shopped for the best bargain in hospitals.

If somebody isn't immediately dying and mentally unable, the relatives or caretaker can take care of comparison shopping or they can just buy the service from the nearest hospital.

Whatever they choose, will determine the price of the service that they pay for. If everyone is provided insurance, we will all pay an arm and a leg and the hospital get to make extravagant profit due to price insensitivity.

The healthcare system anywhere in the world can't save everybody or care for everybody. There will be some rationing of some kind. It could be long waiting line, denial of care for certain individuals, or based on ability to pay. This is the reality of all systems in the world. The only alternative is to be ruthless in improving efficiency, reliability and cost of a healthcare system so that those dilemma can't happen.
Solar and windpower are currently inadequate, but that doesn't always have to be the case, especially if we can develop grid-scale liquid metal batteries like this:

http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_...
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There are several other issues than just that.

Haskell's bondage-and-discipline insistence on functional purity makes it very difficult to mix multiple kinds of effects. If you only use one kind of effect, There's a Monad for That (and you probably don't even have to understand monads!), but once you want to use multiple kinds, you suddenly need to really understand monad machinery (transformers, combinators, etc.). And if you're avoiding monads and comonads, you have to use entirely separate purely-functional data structures.

In addition, Haskell's strong emphasis on statically-determined behavior over run-time decision making creates a language prone to unextensible software. It's not that functional programming and static typing are not useful; it's that industrial programming can take much better of object-oriented and dynamic features, specifically the modularity and extensibility of classes and virtual methods, than of functional and static features. Haskell is suitable for code that you write once, perfectly, but industry needs a language for software you write again and again, never quite right but good enough to ship.
This is pretty well regarded advice in dating circles, where it is important not to waste your life chasing dead ends on dealbreakers.
You just described the climax of the movie Independence Day.
And this whole continent is now sinking financially. I believe it's somehow related.
Good luck achieving your sprint deliverable when all you have is some ideas!

That's one of my main misgivings about a hard-line agile approach. It is good for shops focused on engineering simple problems or doing routine technical work. It breaks down completely in more research-driven domains.

The hard problems are the ones where you bang your head against the wall with no tangible progress, simply exploring the problem domain until you can get some traction, find a way to solve it, but often your first few attempts lead to a sub-optimal solution you'd hate to commit to.

Agile says go with it, fix it later. This is why we get stuck with crappy standards we'd all want to go back in time to fix.

Some things require a more artistic approach where you grind away at the thing until it's actually solid.

If Haskell is pure mathematics then there's no way you can shoehorn that into an agile box.
Kind of an unfair comparision... Coffeescript compiles to Javascript. Sure, GHC Haskell might have once compiled to C but no one was expected to actually read the C code.

Reading the Javascript code is pretty much unavoidable with Coffeescript because debugging utilities don't exist for it at all.
True on the Western Front, where US air superiority was indeed total; less so on the Eastern Front, where the Soviet air force was essentially wiped out in 1941 and took years to rebuild, so the great tank battles, like Kursk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk), took place in a contested air environment.
That's called the Five Whys in business school, root cause analysis in engineering, and life with a two year old.
I believe surgery can be made cheaper through scaling surgery operation. This will in turn increase the reliability of surgeons as they become more experienced in surgery.

In some case, cheaper actually means better surgeon. Obviously, this won't work as well for surgery procedure that are more exotic.

This is already true in heart surgery:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125875892887958111.html
So, basically, nobody uses haskell because nobody uses haskell.
Apparently reading comprehension is not one of your skills.

Have you had a major illness requiring serious care? Apparently not. But you still answered the question. You know why that's relevant? Because you quite literally have no idea what you're talking about. Because you didn't and can't talk about how you would have fit comparison shopping in the busy schedule that goes with not dying.

The notion that somebody is going to say, "Hey, I'm going to see if I can get a discount on dealing with my impending kidney failure" is so far from the reality of what's reasonable in a hospital setting that I don't know where to begin. Other than saying that I should have learned by now not to try to have rational conversations with fundamentalists, be they biblical, Freudian, Marxist, or free-market fundamentalists.
I love Haskell, I've been programming on it for about 5 years ,never professionally of course, but Haskell is just hard for everyone.

Look, what's a Monad?

Is it a "wrapper around function invocations"? (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OnMonads)

Or "a parameterized type which is an instance of the Monad type class, which defines >>= along with a few other operators. In layman's terms, a monad is just a type for which the >>= operation is defined" (http://stackoverflow.com/a/194207/29253) this definition is so bad, starting by the fact that a class aint what you think it is if you come from Python or Ruby.

Most people would just wait for "Learn Haskell The Hard Way" to finally understand some of its concepts that get overcomplicated by Haskellers because they want to be the only ones understanding it. I'm generalizing of course, but sometimes it feels that way, at least to me, since I don't have a CS or Math background.
I write useful and novel software. I'm doing that right now in Haskell.

It's also deployed to Heroku. You wouldn't know it's written in Haskell if I didn't tell you.

Saying that X (CoffeeScript) proponents make more useful/novel software than Y (Haskell) proponents is pretty crazy.
Poi?
So, I'm building a radiation therapy machine, and I want to make sure the software controlling it dispenses the right amount of radiation, not 100 times the right amount of radiation, because that level will kill the patient. And my problem is that my programming language isn't agile enough?
Why was Rhode Island trying "to jump start a video game industry in Rhode Island" by investing in only one company? Why not fund 3000 smaller videogame companies?

They could have given $250,000 to 300 videogame companies, or $2.5 million each to 30 companies.
Indeed, smalltalk is object oriented.
Thanks for the advice.Can you please point me towards where I can find some knowledge about building hype.I have seen some companies do this (Recent Example - LightTable).

In my case my product is really different and I dont know how I can get people to understand what it is without actually getting them to play with it.My belief is that my MVP will be the best tool for building hype.
Interesting, but irrelevant. There are all sorts of good approaches to cost containment in medicine. The blog "The Incidental Economist" covers them regularly. None of them rely on seriously ill people pulling out the Sunday supplement and seeing who has the best deal this week on heart bypass surgery.
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My approach (if you haven't already) would be to essentially get pre-sales. Cold call potential customers, or talk to people, with your 30-second elevator pitch. Get to the point where people tell you they want to buy your product as soon as it's available-then build, iterate, etc.
Warren Buffet also freely admits he doesn't understand making money on the the Internet well enough to invest in it or short it.
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I said no such thing. I said coffeescript proponents don't whine about it. There's a culture in mainstream open source about "getting things done". People make stuff and show it off, and the value is what they made, not how they did it.

Haskell lacks that culture, as evidenced by the premise behind this question.
I often try the trendy languages and tools, just to see what the fuss is about. It's astonishing how fast these things seem to flame out and cycle. Like "people" magazine for technology or something.

Programming fads do occasionally provide something new for my toolkit - the functional programming craze led me to "High Order Perl", and git wound up making more sense to me than cvs or svn ever did.
Actually, agile methodologies are good for situations where the problem itself (and even customer base) is in flux and not fully known (ie consumer facing web startups). Agile methodologies help lay a roadmap to facilitate communication and prioritization to/from developer, project management, and the customer(s).

The solution may or may not be difficult, but finding the right problem to solve is paramount.

The quality of the solution is often a product of the quality of the people working on the problem. Oh, and don't run out of money :-)
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It turns out that purely functional data structures are useful anyway as a solution to concurrency, though.
Medicare is pretty good proof that the government can infact do a decent job of health care. At least compared to private insurance.
The article talks about a family of 4 with 4 macs, 4 iPads, 4 IPhones. We're well into the 1% territory there.

My Adult spouse an I have two iPhones and share an iPad. Sharing the one account (and thereby sharing applications) is great.
For people without serious pre-existing conditions, health insurance is nothing but an extra cost. The insurance industry depends on the healthy to subsidize the sick.

For healthy people, it's usually cheaper to pay your doctor dentist and other specialists in cash...well, if you are healthy, you don't usually need to see any specialists.
It goes back to their battles with Microsoft over the graphical desktop. Apple's hypersensitivity to perceived copying has been baked into their company DNA.
This guy spent 24 years at Ivy League schools, and "never learned that there are smart people who don’t go to elite colleges, often precisely for reasons of class"?!

The fault, dear OP, lies not in the stars but in yourself that you are an arrogant, academic douchebag.

> There is something wrong with the smugness and self-congratulation that elite schools connive at from the moment the fat envelopes come in the mail. From orientation to graduation, the message is implicit in every tone of voice and tilt of the head, every old-school tradition, every article in the student paper, every speech from the dean. The message is: You have arrived. Welcome to the club.

False. That was the message you decided to take away from all the pomp and circumstance of the occasion. Ever been to orientation at a less-than-Elite institution? It's full of the same self-congratulatory, self-important crap. The problem is that OP decided to eat all the BS they were serving up, because he already saw himself as better than other people.

Then he goes from being simply wrong to being meta-wrong, that is, he negates his incorrect generality that "Elite Education Produces Better People", hoping that two wrongs make a right:

> Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, or even lazy people.

False, or incoherent. If OP refuses to define "valuable", or defines it in some utterly wishy-washy subjective way, then this statement is non-sensical. If OP defines the "value" of a person in common terms such as utility of services rendered to others in society, then this statement is demonstrably false.

If 24 years at Yale and Columbia can't give him pause when committing this sort of logical blunder, then I'm not sending my kid to Yale or Columbia.
Have you had a major illness requiring serious care? Apparently not. But you still answered the question. You know why that's relevant? Because you quite literally have no idea what you're talking about. Because you didn't and can't talk about how you would have fit comparison shopping in the busy schedule that goes with not dying.

Emergency care is serious care. I was rushed to the hospital. Is that's not "serious care"?

The notion that somebody is going to say, "Hey, I'm going to see if I can get a discount on dealing with my impending kidney failure" is so far from the reality of what's reasonable in a hospital setting that I don't know where to begin. Other than saying that I should have learned by now not to try to have rational conversations with fundamentalists, be they biblical, Freudian, Marxist, or free-market fundamentalists

Never mind. I guess you're right. In some circumstance, when you're healthy, you could comparison shop. When you're very ill, you can't comparison shop as well, due to mental state of mind. Still, I think my economic reasoning is not entirely without merit.

<strike>You obviously felt that your anecdote have more weight than my economic reasoning. Just because you don't comparison shop in your situation doesn't mean other people won't. Ever heard of medical tourism?</strike>
As a foreigner, I can't understand why the U.S. has no public free healthcare for all. Its one of the basic rights and one of the first obligations of a government. All governments should provide free and public healthcare and education. Here in Brazil we have a pretty bad government and yet we have those. And if you're seriously injured and it is an emergency, you can go to any private hospital and they are forced by law to treat you and payment is decided later. Sometimes U.S. policies scares me...
It seems there are many sides and superiority swung every other month. I only know from what a history buff's knowledge rubs off on me.

Anyhow, not sure the veracity of the following link, but it provides some different opinion: http://operationbarbarossa.net/Myth-Busters/MythBusters2.htm...

Essentially, with a production run in the 55,000 range, it's no wonder it has able to overwhelm the enemy. Not unlike when Russian generals sent barely armed men against the enemy to face automatic weapons. They had the numbers.
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There is way too much latency to play properly.
I don't have a number, but the exotics that are used in space applications may never pay back their production energy. But it takes a lot of extension cords to reach geosynchronous orbit.
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Hey guys,

I've been reading Margaret Cheney's "Tesla: Man out of time", which is a wonderful biography of the prolific inventor Nikola Tesla, and there were two quotes that really blew my mind and I thought you guys would appreciate it.

At one point, Tesla's lab catches on fire and burns down, and all his equipment and notes are destroyed. He is devastated, and later on he says that the "loss could not be measured," but Charles Dana of the New York Sun had this to say on the topic:

* "The destruction of Nikola Tesla's workshop, with its wonderful contents, is something more than a private calamity. It is a misfortune to the whole world. It is not in any degree an exaggeration to say that the men living at this time who are more important to the human race than this young gentleman can be counted on the fingers of one hand; perhaps on the thumb of one hand." *

That's insane. Can you imagine working on the kind of things that put you at the pinnacle of people "more important to the human race"! That is absolutely insane. I look at the kind of stuff posted here and on TC/Endgadget and those kind of sites, and most of the stuff we read about doesn't even come close to the kinds of things Tesla was working on. In today's world, what are the things that are "most important to the human race"? How do you even judge that?

The other tremendous quote was by Tesla himself. A reporter was interviewing him when he dropped this gem:

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success…Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

I think when you have those kind of feelings, you know you're on to something. A real inspiration to all of us.
Does the neighbor also block out all the harmful EM radiation that floods from sunrise to sunset?
If you want to be cruel, mention that cordless phones and microwaves emit at similar frequencies as wifi.
Ehhh... I can see the argument, but it seems to me to be precisely on par with that you can put arbitrary text inside a <a> tag. Which means a link which looks like http://www.amazon.com might not actually go there. Some people confuse this, some don't, but many have been 'trained' by spam to check the address on mouse-over.
I know quite a few people that use Scala in place of Haskell just because it runs on the JVM.

Interoperability matters.
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Yes, because agile methodologies kill people, puppies and hate freedom.

Seriously though, in situations where lives are dependent on the solution working correctly, the process that is used to build the solution needs to take into account human error and have rigorous testing.

i.e. I also wouldn't trust a person who "though about and can 'prove'" a solution in Haskell to control that radiation machine without extensive testing.
Should I be reading something out of this comment other than a totally ridiculous insult? I would flag it and move on if it wasn't coming from someone whose contributions I normally enjoy.

- You seem to be saying that Haskell people are per capita less productive (or more "whiny?") than people writing in other languages. I have no idea why you think this is true, because I don't know any good way to even find out how many people know Haskell. Please show even the slightest bit of evidence.

- Are you kidding me? Go Google "coffeescript usage" (better yet: "why coffeescript") and see page after page of people writing why they're using Coffeescript, why they're not using Coffeescript, asking if anyone else is using Coffeescript, telling people to use Coffeescript, ad infinitum. People like to talk about who is using every single piece of technology on this planet.
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No, it's just easier to obtain than chicken wire but has similar metal content for signal scrambling, and plastic insulation to avoid scratch damage to skin.
I have been learning Haskell off and on for the last few weeks, and I can already see the elegance of it. It's given me some perception about how I can improve my code on more mainstream languages.

I'll probably continue writing toy code with Haskell, but which is the most popular programming language that encourages a functional programming paradigm?
Not everyone wants the cheapest thing possible without caring who made it or how it was made.

Tariffs are not to punish China because they stole wind tech, that is something that should be properly resolved in Chinese courts, but somehow I doubt that the US company is going to find proper restitution there. It's just an illustration of how unfriendly China can be to US competition. Copy tech & then go home & hide behind a convoluted & foreigner unfriendly court system.

The central Chinese government will do what it thinks is best for itself. This may involve squashing human rights, lax worker safety, destroying their environment, manipulating markets with currency(regardless of where the Yuan is right now) or raw materials. China is not above doing what it takes to benefit it's own manufacturers. I don't see why the US should not investigate benefiting it's own manufacturers as well. You could say that people will suffer because they won't get super cheap solar panels made under questionable circumstances, but honestly more people need to look beyond the price tag & at the "true costs".
In app development terms it is akin to having to say hit #1 on the app store and hold it for months to get a decent return.

I think Age Of Conan was an interesting case, launched with big publicity and was quiet good. Things outside the introductory areas though weren't fully fleshed out and there were some big bugs. In the first couple of months they lost most of the user base, one you start a decline in an MMO network effects take hold.

They have put an extraordinary amount of work into the game since this point, building a great game, and had success with the free to play model. Still though, the biggest impact on where they are now was these first few weeks.
Not less per capita, but far far less capita.
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Please name a few products that adhere to that principal :)
Network effects are hyper-exponential. I don't have citation for this, but it would explain why most things don't get mainstream attention even if they are good.
So it's an unfair comparison in favor of Coffeescript because Coffeescript has inadequate tools? I don't see the rationale here. Especially since the vast majority of javascript out there is minified, especially when it has been generated by something like Coffeescript. Nobody is expected to actually read the minified code.
Health care is not a public good (in the economic sense of the word). To be a public good it has to be non-rival and non-excludable. It is definitely rival (the surgeon can't operate on two people at once). And, it is only non-excudable to the extent that society won't let people die just because they aren't able to pay.

There are plenty of reasons to think health care will not be efficiently produced by the market (adverse selection in health insurance is one). But, the reason the government will do such a bad job isn't that we have "stupid partisan assholes". It's that the incentives for government bureaucratic are all screwed up (see public choice theory). The problem is deeper than politics.