geoffc

40 yrs of coding as well. It's a joy.

This was my experience until I started using a fitbit to get an accurate daily burn count. It showed that I was setting my calorie count way too low, hence the hunger issue. If I eat the fitbit daily burn minus 500 calories I lose 1 lb a week with no hunger issues.

The plain joy of solving problems via code. I'm 55 and wake up every day with another set of problems to code against, it never gets old. You can also make a lot of money along the way if you take some risks.

Companies with great products rarely go bankrupt in my experience (while the product is great of course).

I exit when I either no longer love the product or see a replacement product I like better. I have my accounts at Fidelity and my 10 year RoR is 33% vs 9.78% for the S&P 500 (31% going back to 2003 when I consolidated accounts there).

What I like about the approach is that product is a leading indicator and can be judged by anyone. The financials and stock price seem to trail the product by 1-3 years on both the upside and downside.

BTW I fully agree with the original premise of the thread and think if you try actively trade on financials, timing etc. as a part timer you will get smoked by the pros, sooner or later.

My product tastes are pretty mainstream, nothing obscure. In the early days I liked Windows and Netware as I did a lot of consulting work with them and had good runs with them. I sat out the dotcom boom and bust as I was putting all my cash into my gigs. In the internet era I liked the business Saas'es (SFDC, N, HUBS, BOX) because I believe in and understand that industry. I was amazed by OSX the first time I tried it so bought Apple. I bought Amazon, Google and SIRI pretty early when I saw what heavy users of the products me and my family were. I was blown away by the first Tesla I saw and bought that. I like the latest fitbits so I just bought some of that, let's see what happens to that. I don't look at the price or financials on either the entrance or exit so on the negative side I sold Apple a few years ago and missed the last half of the run.

For the last 30 years I have bought stock in tech products I use and like and hold it until I no longer like the product. This simple strategy has dramatically outperformed the indexes. In hindsight the last 30 years have been great for tech so maybe I just got lucky on my industry selection.

OpenAir, Ambrahealth

I recently switch from a Macbook to the Asus Chrome flipbook and am happy with the following workflow. I enabled developer mode and installed Chromebrew, vim, git, rsync and tmux. I git checkout my projects locally and edit in vim/tmux and then rsync the changes to a cloud server for compilation and testing.

Just this weekend I retired my old Macbook and switched my dev environment to an Asus flipbook and preemptible VM's on google cloud. For offline work I boot linux from a usb-c flashdrive. Getting my VPNs working and eliminating Ctrl+w from my workflow was the hardest part.

Google has created the full ecosystem (phone, laptop, apps) to compete against the MS and Apple stacks. It's still a rougher experience, but for me, it has crossed the good enough threshold.

55 yo and have run close to daily for 45 of them with minimal injuries. I land on my forefoot and then put the heel down softly, the shoe makes little difference other than an overly high heel prohibits that movement.

CTO at ambrahealth.com here, once you get the CD you can create a free account at our site and upload the MRI for cloud viewing and sharing. A lot of providers are starting to use our service to electronically share the images with patients instead of CD's.

Nicely done, very slick, you have nailed a lot of the pain points of VDI. Shameless plug but at leostreamdesktops.com and leostream.com we have been in the VDI market for over a decade with a MSP and enterprise focus. Good luck on the venture, these are exciting times for VDI!

Slow SSH session is usually a DNS issue.

My personal experience jibes with this. For many years I struggled to stay around 200lbs on a low fat diet. A year ago I tried the whole 30 and since then have easily stayed on a no grains or sugar diet and my weight is rock steady at 175 with no effort. I have always exercised a lot (15-25 miles a week running plus other activities) so no changes there and my blood work (cholesterol etc.) are good on both diets. Wish I had discovered this 20 years ago but happy I figured it out.

Congrats to the MedXT team they built a beautiful DICOM viewer and had a good cap structure which makes this a win/win for them and Box. Box now has an Saas offering into the most on-premise space in enterprise IT.

An age old debate and both are great! I used Emacs for a decade plus and on a whim spent a vacation re-programming my fingers for Vim and stuck with it as it felt slightly faster, not sure it really makes a difference :-)

I can vouch for the real world performance. Phil has used Purescript to dramatically improve the performance of our medical image viewer. It's pretty impressive stuff.

For me the answer is simple. If I eat 2500 calories a day of vegetables, nuts, meat, eggs and fruit I have trouble finishing it all. If I eat 2500 calories with grains and sugar included I'm starving at the end of the day and it takes every ounce of will power not to eat 3000 calories. It might well be calories in, calories out but what I eat makes it dramatically harder or easier to regulate the calories in.

Same problem with the seals in New England. They are cute and protected and exploding in population with negative effects on the fish stock. Canada restarted seal hunting to protect the cod fishery and it's working for them.

Agreed! I use a lot of Saas services and tarsnap is insanely cheap for the value it provides.

While I'm at it, a feature I would love to see in tarsnap is server side pruning of old archives so I can remove the delete permissions from my production keys and not have to setup a secondary pruning server.

Yay, this is a big step towards making DaaS a reality. The Teradici PCoIP client they use improves the user experience a lot, especially for video. Now just waiting for an API so we can incorporate Workspaces into Leostreamdesktops.com as another DaaS option.

A very cool idea. A meat space analogy I recently saw in South Africa is a rapidly growing farm supply company that automatically gives the farmers stock based on purchase levels, it has taken over from the old co-op system.

This one hits home. 25 years ago I zigged into the water filtration business when I should have zagged in the bottled water business. I had the choice and never saw that businesses would pay so much to have water trucked to them. Doh!

The judge is an America hero. The NSL's are Orwellian. I just donated to the EFF, please do likewise.

At some point Dominos Pizza or the like is going to take bitcoins for web orders and it will go mainstream. Zero transactions fees and no charge backs make it a no brainer for a big class of normal, nonillict online transactions.

mid eighties till 1992 on Qedit, Emacs till 2002 then VIM to the present, no desire to switch for the next decade of coding :-)

Selling OpenAir was a very positive experience. It gave me three things. A tremendous sense of accomplishment, financial security and most importantly the freedom to go back to the most exciting and difficult part of business, building startups from scratch.

I wouldn't kick yourself too much. The jury is still very much out on the Sendhub business model.

FWIW, I have a blog about it at http://gcrawshaw.posterous.com/ycombinator-vs-the-telcos

Wow! Powerful validation of the value of the team vs. the idea. Game changing move by YC.