jmatthews

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by jmatthews 13y ago
Ahh, when determined as a percentage of msrp the field gets murky. But 10% of a $20,000 msrp is markedly different than 10% of a $70,000 msrp. In raw dollars higher msrps depreciate by a much larger whole dollar amount, which would be refle
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by jmatthews 13y ago
20 years in the auto industry on the retail side. I'd be happy to consult for free and dig deeper if I liked the direction of the project. jmatthews005@gmail.com
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by jmatthews 13y ago
Most used car models are based on retailing a high percentage of dealer trades as they are the highest margin source of inbound vehicles. Easy source checks are any research on CarMax, a light review of any of Pollacks books(Velocity, Veloc
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by jmatthews 13y ago
Luxury brands depreciate at a higher per-day-per-mile amount than non-luxury brands. A trivial amount of research will prove this out. No disrespect intended.
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by jmatthews 13y ago
The new hotness in the auto business is used car only stores. So not EVERY dealer would suffer from your proposed hardship. Further, the way the market segments some people only consider new cars. It's as much habit or bias as it is an
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by jmatthews 13y ago
Was about to say it deploys to Linux but I assume the editor doesn't run on Linux. Having a couple of decades alternating between serious game development and just dabbling I can't stress enough how big the delta between Unity and
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by jmatthews 13y ago
I'm a Unity fan-boy. Deploys to almost every modern platform and uses a "code-once" approach so porting from Android to IPhone to PC to Linux is largely straightforward. It lets you code in a subset of javascript or c# 3.0 an
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by jmatthews 13y ago
"You are overhead — until and if you ever deliver." - That's a very "engineery" statement. History is littered with engineers that build great things and never convert them to commercial success. This is a two-fold
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by jmatthews 13y ago
I'm not sure you could back that up with case studies. Most companies are disrupted because they focus too narrowly. They also tend to think they're in the "tool" business when they grew successful as a solution business
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by jmatthews 13y ago
I'd like to recommend the book "Flow" as it deals with this issue but I can't do it in good conscience. If you are willing to pick out a few grains from a lot of chaff you may be able to mine out a decent treatment of th
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by jmatthews 13y ago
may not be new, but is new to me. The bounty system lacks any teeth but I love the aggregation of ideas.
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by jmatthews 13y ago
Perhaps parallel to your point but not only does compilation take time but development takes even more time. The article essentially compares mutable and immutable values, and their effect on compilation and cycles. Sure the type system is
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by jmatthews 13y ago
Great write up, and an interesting use of existing libraries to transform tech into art.
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by jmatthews 13y ago
I respectfully disagree with the major premise of your post. In every decent hacker there is a bit of masochist. Toolchain development is always the least glamorous role in the company and one of the most important. In the game industry you
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Ask HN - How to research a stem cell doctor
1 points by jmatthews 13y ago|1 comments
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by jmatthews 14y ago
May want to rethink your proposed hurdles. Printers are too small is purely a function of utility. If the use case changes the technology will change. There's not even a technical hurdle to bridge. It's simply form following function. Your
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by jmatthews 15y ago
I meant that given your app works within the restrictions of GAE you get the benefit of a lot of brainpower from men with long beards. Maybe the association was temporal as I'd just finished watching an IO presentation about how to scheme d
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by jmatthews 15y ago
Just reading his run up regarding their distributed server technology it read to me like a brief ad for AppEngine. I'm thinking about all of the hardcore neuron work that went in to their infrastructure and how I'm getting a competing produ
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by jmatthews 16y ago
I've been faced with a similar design choice on my current project and it's not as simple as "adding a layer" or progressively developing. If you plan to implement what is more traditionally a native app rather than a typical website then y
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Ask HN: Generic Search Traffic on GAE with dynamic content.
2 points by jmatthews 16y ago|0 comments
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by jmatthews 16y ago
Which brings up another issue with the study. If you use the "rational actors" canard of Econ101. Everyone asked is trying to maximize their economic utility. So the opportunity cost of inaction beats action. The study should at least requi
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by jmatthews 16y ago
There's a flaw in the entire data set. I would "kill whitey" or the "blackman" to save the "victim group" but I would know that it was morally wrong. It doesn't test morality, it tests your response to the situation. Thus my moral code is a