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mmx

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About mmx

Hi I'm Randy

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    Comment #4681182

    Growing up I was one of five kids and my parents could do this if they wanted, as we were aged 4-16. I think I'm a few years from this being possible as my 5 year old daughter is i…

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    Comment #4681123

    Oh man, where do I start. I had my first kid when I was 21, to say it was unplanned is an understatement, but marriage soon followed and things have really worked out the last 6 ye…

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    Comment #4614139

    I'm not sure a tweet metric like that means much once you realize the news "Beyoncé Reveals Baby Bump" resulted in 8,868 tweets a second, which is about 10.6 million tweets every 2…

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    Comment #4614043

    The ZBoard idea blows my mind, such a simple idea I can't believe wasn't created before now. Nicely done.

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    Comment #4613579

    I own the website drugcite.com, I instantly checked it after reading your comment. Seizures of this size really scare me for false positive reasons

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    Comment #4462456

    Although I might not agree with the iPad comparison, that's a really great idea I'd buy into.

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    Comment #4196342

    Over a year ago we created a really simple iGoogle gadget connected to our site that for some reason picked up steam, I really hate to see this go since I know a lot of our users h…

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    Comment #4049448

    Got me, should have read the comments first. I'll add this my slide deck for possible investors, should score me some funds.

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    Comment #3822640

    I currently run an entire startup in my garage, this includes routers, webserver, database servers, UPS's, etc, all hand built by the way. I work on it with 3 other guys who live 4…

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    Comment #3646338

    Your other projects are impressive as well, are you a one man team for all of them? Also thanks for the insight, this info isn't commonly shared with other startups, I appreciate i…

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    Comment #3646300

    This news couldn't come at a better time, we've been building a side effect database for almost 2 years using big data sets from several different sources. It's functional and a fe…

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    Comment #3625517

    I've been noticing a lot of health related submissions lately on HN including my own. The future is looking bright in this industry, hopefully we can get more collaboration to brin…

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    Comment #3625481

    This is a valid point. I think a couple of things will help resolve this: 1.) time on market, and 2.) letting the public know our credentials. I can assure you the backers of this …

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    Comment #3625423

    The members of our group all work day jobs doing medical informatics, so we're more or less medical data geeks who identified a hole in the medical informatics field and exploited …

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    Comment #3625374

    Here's an actual link: http://www.drugcite.com/

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    Show HN: See drug side effects reported to the FDA by people like you.

    Hi everyone, We've been building this for a little over a year now and we're interested in getting some feedback. To explain where this data comes from, one of the primary ways tha…

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    Comment #3622429

    I was impressed with the Atrix (Phone that docked into a thin laptop) when it was released. I still believe it's before its time but I'm happy to see where things are going. I'd lo…

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    Comment #3586054

    Thanks for the link. This will come in handy since were moving to 520's across the board including our database servers eventually.

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    Comment #3585739

    I can't express how happy I am to see this post. I made to decision to move all our database servers to Intel 510's 120gb months ago and it was difficult to find any data on long t…

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    Comment #3463227

    I like to think that payments like this go to relatives or business partners at a different company. I only like to think that because the alternative is actually harder for me to …

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    Comment #3396371

    Congress has a 9% approval rating, so why won't this change? Because people hate Congress, but they like their Congressman. We need an education revolution in this country and the …

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    Comment #3396130

    We currently use two hand built servers that are clones of each other behind a firewall. We've replaced them recently with much faster machines, sticking our databases and indexes …

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    Comment #3298202

    Good advice. I'm currently looking into starting a blog to give insight to our company, your comment would be a great addition to this guys blog post though.

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    Comment #3253579

    Hi HN, we've been working on this for the better part of 2 years and feel it's almost ready for both Doctors & Consumers. We have many tools in development that will allow users to…

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