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by adsyoung 18y ago
I enjoyed the abstraction layer argument but I can't figure out what point Joel is trying to make about the lone MicroISV developer. Don't do it? Don't do it unless you can afford to hire a layer of sales and marketing at some stage? Do it,
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Absolutely, although I'm struggling to find a good famous quote to support this point of view.
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Is there anyone who doesn't believe that it works though? i.e. It won't lead to a reasonable positive return? Believing that it works means simply accepting the average return of the market through index funds as you said, which sounds reas
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Do you believe it to be truly efficient or just the most effective hypothesis? For example perhaps where it is inefficient this is indistinguishable and highly random therefore not terribly useful?
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out. I was deliberately trying to avoid the land of acronymns and unnecessary complexity though. I find it interesting that almost all of the most truly interesting and valueable things I have read were written in plai
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by adsyoung 18y ago
It's a good suggestion but not so applicable to the strategies I listed for the average investor above I think. These are all long term strategies. Finding the next Google or working hard to find the rare highly valueable opportunity, somet
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Point taken, they are absolutely philosophies. That was a sloppy question, it's getting late here. I was curious if people more knowledgeable than myself on this topic took genuine exception to these philosophies and had others to add to th
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Ask HN: Models for investing in the stock market...
8 points by adsyoung 18y ago|15 comments
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by adsyoung 18y ago
I was more of a panzer general fan. Is that all there was to squad leader's gameplay? I just moved them into cover and then fired back and forth turn after turn hoping for a hit which very rarely came.
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Yep, still has the ability to induce motion sickness. My thumbs are slightly too big for the controls it seems but I'm glad they didn't use tilt controls, that really doesn't work for me.
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by adsyoung 18y ago
That's true, although recently I've been hearing a number of so called important people saying that the whole computer/internet thing is done and is settling down to incremental innovation at about the pace of the rest of the economy from h
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Me too. It's more that there seems to be fewer and fewer startups worth telling less geeky people about as in "Here, this may be useful or interesting to you." Don't know if I'm the only one noticing this.
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by adsyoung 18y ago
I've really noticed a slow down in truly interesting startups over the past years/months due to a personal metric of mine. I'm finding fewer and fewer interesting announcements to share via google reader to all my slightly less techie frien
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Why Designing Interactivity Is Hard - Chris Crawford(erasmatazz.com)
1 points by adsyoung 18y ago|0 comments
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by adsyoung 18y ago
My pet theory is that if people weren't able to to spend time setting up complex and impressive looking spreadsheets they would be bored out of their minds.
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by adsyoung 18y ago
To address your idea specifically, I definitely think something like that is possible. If the formulas and data where separated such that one spreadsheet could inherit formulas from a master etc. There is so much variation in engineering th
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Do you have something particular in mind? Its an interesting opportunity and problem. All the solutions I have been considering and working on are in custom applications specific to the problem domain of aerospace. The general one size fits
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Yes to all of those and that's part of what we try and do. There are also many models/ideas from programming that are applicable to the way engineering should be done I feel, such as don't repeat yourself, reducing dependencies etc There ar
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Well the thing to remember is that everything is checked twice and there's a 1.5 safety factor on top to protect against mistakes but the state of the industry is poor. Engineers often get away with creating monstrous spreadsheets that are
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Yeah...we do most aircraft structural analysis in excel. It scares the hell out of me.
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Yes, an update would be great if you're around Joel? Aside from Joel and Clay Shirky ( http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html ) does anyone have any other must read links on this type of thing?
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Ask HN: Does anyone know a good way of reviewing code on the iphone?
2 points by adsyoung 18y ago|1 comments
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Me too actually. When I first started coming here I had barely written a line of code and was rapidly discovering my chosen career path of aerospace engineer was boring the hell out of me and not what I thought it would be. Then all of a su
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Ask HN: What have you learned from Hacker News?
32 points by adsyoung 18y ago|18 comments
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by adsyoung 18y ago
So annoying we don't have mint in Australia I hate doing the finances manually. Is anyone here able to describe how their interface to your bank account works in more detail? I haven't heard a great explanation of it. Part of me is still am
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by adsyoung 18y ago
I keep thinking something useful could be achieved without getting too formal or needing something as strict and complex as Prolog. Looking at how well a site like Stack Overflow is working gives me hope of a happy medium between rigor and
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by adsyoung 18y ago
To go into a bit more detail of this likely pipe dream... One approach could be to have a group of site moderators who make it their mission to, as Paul said, keep their identities as small as possible and simply judge the logic and biases
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Well yes, except that wikipedia doesn't lead to new and interesting conclusions as far as I'm aware. It does a good job of converging on good truthiness for a lot of things but avoids the harder stuff for which these types of problems make
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by adsyoung 18y ago
Its posts like this and Paul's "How to Disagree" that remind me of an idea that I keep coming back to again and again. I've often wondered what would be possible in terms of designing a website that aims to moderate debate in a way that le
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by adsyoung 18y ago
I'm aerospace turned hacker myself. Just curious, are there any others about in the same boat?

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