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by yannickt 15y ago
The challenge is identifying "someone like him" before the fact . But if you could do that, then you would know why he's been so successful and you'd be able to do it all by yourself. Most funds do not beat the market in the long term (&#6
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by yannickt 15y ago
I never advised anything of the sort. You're putting words in my mouth.
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by yannickt 15y ago
I did not lie, you seem to be the one with an axe to grind and you haven't proven anything. What I wrote about fees charged by index funds is perfectly accurate. For instance: - the Vanguard Total stock Market Index Fund charges 0.07%; -
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by yannickt 15y ago
This is a great point. Most people I know largely overestimate their risk tolerance, and go from aggressive to conservative at the first hint of a market crash.
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by yannickt 15y ago
"It is not difficult to beat the market, nor to do it over the long term." Yet most active fund managers, who I assume are not stupid, do not beat the market over the long term.
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I never said that it is dangerous to teach people about investing. I am saying that investing is about a lot more than stock picking. Since passive investors beat active investors after costs [1], I think it is better for the average invest
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This reads like a request for a startup to teach people how to pick stocks. I am not sure this would be particularly useful, and I fear it could be dangerous. There is plenty of evidence that the average investor, instead of obsessing over
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by yannickt 15y ago
The Express versions are not designed for multilanguage projects. For example, in the paid versions of VS, you can add C# and C++ projects to the same solution. You cannot add a C++ project to a Visual C# Express solution.
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by yannickt 15y ago
Solar Trillions, by Tony Seba. The book makes a strong case for seven market opportunities for solar energy. A great read that got me interested in clean tech.
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True, but if people spend more time in apps than browsing the web, then web apps might be harder to monetize than native apps on mobile devices.
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by yannickt 15y ago
It is not all sunshine and roses for the vast majority of businesses. Everything will eventually suck. I am not sure the world would be a better place if most engineers shifted to becoming business owners. People like Dave Cutler, Linus T
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by yannickt 15y ago
From her LinkedIn profile it looks like she is no longer there.
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He never said or implied that Joel is a TDD fan in the article. He also concedes that TDD might be a controversial practice in the first paragraph. In any case, the merits of any particular practice have little to do with the main thesis of
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by yannickt 15y ago
> All of these are tweaks The word "tweak" does not mean the same thing to hackers as it does to the general public. To the average person, "tweaking" means making minor modifications to an essentially finished product. This of course w
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by yannickt 15y ago
Why?
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The Amazon part was a very good bait though. Without it I think a lot fewer people would have read the entire thing.
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by yannickt 15y ago
What do politics have to do with it? He clearly cares about Google, or he wouldn't have bothered to write his post. Also, there are classes of problems that can realistically only be solved at a big company.
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by yannickt 15y ago
Why do you say that Bethesda is a terrible company? They always struck me as one of the few in the game industry that sort of "get it".
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by yannickt 15y ago
He actually said that "there is more opportunity for technical innovation [...] in gaming than practically anywhere else I can imagine". A modern game like Rage can stimulate one's intellect for a very long time. http://www.mytweetdreams.c
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His interviews after he received the gdc lifetime achievement award suggest otherwise.
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He needs Romero back. I think if these two were still working together, we would see some amazing games being made.
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by yannickt 15y ago
I don't think they license engines anymore. I just hope their tech makes it into Fallout 4 or whatever Bethesda (which is now under the same corporate umbrella as id) ends up calling it.
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I wouldn't say he's nuts per se, but he's comparing apples and oranges.
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"There was also too much of rehashing of things demoed during WWDC." I may be completely off-base, but I have a feeling that they dwelled on past accomplishments during the event on purpose . They assumed that Steve would be watching, and
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by yannickt 15y ago
Why do you think Google+ is a flop?
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I also wouldn't be surprised if its launch as an invite-only beta release was in part because of it pioneered large email storage.
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Basically be a domain expert, rather than an implementation technology expert.
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"Ballmer has proven that he handles the enterprise products just fine" He can milk the Office cash cow, but has he really driven innovation in the enterprise? Amazon is considered a pioneer of enterprise cloud computing, yet they started as
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by yannickt 15y ago
Not all large companies feed you kool aid, force you to attend pointless meetings or use shitty tools. And re: tools, this really has little to do with the company size, and sometimes you have to take shortcuts and use inelegant solutions t
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Blindly chasing dollar signs can lead to very bad career decisions.

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