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My Ship Just Sunk

Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford

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.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2016, @10:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 29 2016, @10:09AM (#352209)

    GNU Manifesto [gnu.org]Software wants to be Free.

    Stop being greedy. Stop trying to sell software.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @03:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @03:07PM (#352640)

    Silly troll, do some reading. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling [gnu.org]

    Quote [W]e encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday May 30 2016, @08:38PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday May 30 2016, @08:38PM (#352749) Homepage Journal

    I'm the only one who is ever going to possess this code.

    No, I sell it's output. Have A Nice Day!

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2016, @01:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 31 2016, @01:12AM (#352845)

      Information wants to be free, dude. It's immoral to charge money for intangibles. I'm sure that's written somewhere, right next to Jesus hates usury.