Hacker News: geoffc

New comment by geoffc in "40 Years of Programming"

geoffc — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:40:02 +0000

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

New comment by geoffc in "Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment"

geoffc — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:46:53 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Ask HN: What keeps you going?"

geoffc — Tue, 08 May 2018 21:32:38 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude"

geoffc — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:36:44 +0000

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

New comment by geoffc in "Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude"

geoffc — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:34:45 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude"

geoffc — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:28:00 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude"

geoffc — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:04:46 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Perl 6 Optimism"

geoffc — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:16:16 +0000

OpenAir, Ambrahealth

New comment by geoffc in "Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your primary machine?"

geoffc — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:31:54 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Chrome Enterprise"

geoffc — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:13:03 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "We Evolved to Run But We're Doing It Wrong"

geoffc — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 01:37:56 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Open Sourcing My Personal Medical Record"

geoffc — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:36:24 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser"

geoffc — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:29:03 +0000

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!

New comment by geoffc in "Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?"

geoffc — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:59:39 +0000

Slow SSH session is usually a DNS issue.

New comment by geoffc in "What If Obesity Is Nobody’s Fault?"

geoffc — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 23:55:59 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Box acquires MedXT"

geoffc — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:07:39 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "From Vim to Emacs"

geoffc — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:37:04 +0000

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 :-)

New comment by geoffc in "PureScript: a statically typed language which compiles to JavaScript"

geoffc — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:06:42 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "Hard Science About Diet"

geoffc — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:05:13 +0000

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.

New comment by geoffc in "We don't eat swans"

geoffc — Fri, 09 May 2014 23:43:48 +0000

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.