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Now this is embarrassing.
Just now I discovered quite a serious bug in the software I'm working on.
I'm quite certain the general concept is valid, but my implementation is buggy.
This is something I can fix but that twenty grand I thought I made last week just flew out the window.
I will give you one little taste: in 2001-2002 I worked on a database kernel for a Bahamian hedge fund. It's now a core component of a huge windows executable that trades a basket of 1000 commodities futures on the Chicago Board of Trade. It's consistently able to beat the best funds managers.
My invention isn't trading commodities but it's a conceptually similar program.
(I don't know how they fared with the 2007 subprime meltdown. My guess is that the fund's owner would have known to get out of the market, he's a real shrewd guy.)
My ship isn't at the dock yet but I think it's still headed in my general direction.
In any case I'm doing something more mentally challenging than reloading SN all day long.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Saturday May 28 2016, @11:40PM
Enjoy. I actually find it interesting tracking down bugs. Still hope it works out.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 29 2016, @12:29AM
I still expect to make money, but the money I thought I just made was fictitious.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday May 29 2016, @01:46AM
Fictitious money has very little use for us normal citizens.
(Score: 3, Funny) by pixeldyne on Monday May 30 2016, @12:42AM
I'd still rather have fictitious money than fictitious debt. I know it doesn't make sense, it doesn't have to 😃