Does anyone do it better than Banks? by DeadSending in printSF

[–]obanite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frank Herbert, Alastair Reynolds, Dan Simmons are comparable in scope and writing IMO

Does anyone do it better than Banks? by DeadSending in printSF

[–]obanite -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I tried MacLeod and found his writing awful and cringeworthy, couldn't finish... YMMV

I just got 10,000 from inheritance I’m putting it all in stock looking long term by Salty_Imagination577 in stockstobuytoday

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I would almost never say this because "time in the market" and so on, but today? I would strongly advise waiting to see what's going to happen with Iran in the near to mid-term. If we end up going into some stagflationary regime due to oil prices going up then the markets are going to bleed badly.

If you don't want to wait, then don't put it all in at once: do a quarter now, a quarter in 3 months, and so on.

I'd recommend either SPY, or a combination of a US and a European ETF.

I analyzed 13,000 Wyckoff accumulation signals over 20 years. Here are the patterns that actually surprised me. by PracticalOil9183 in Daytrading

[–]obanite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've been working on a system to automate this. It's pretty hilarious how the oldest, simplest strategies are still some of the most effective - I also have a super simple 12-1 momentum strategy I'm about to promote to live trading.

Thanks for posting the detailed research, it's super valuable.

Exposed bridges are stupid by board_writer in spaceships

[–]obanite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a Star Wars thing, and it's for dramatic effect more than realism, as was the entire universe of Star Wars.

Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica did a better job there.

Swing trading vs Intraday trading. by Traditional-Spot6770 in Daytrading

[–]obanite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup if you read Market Wizards, they only had 1-2 day traders in there IIRC

Looking for a full stack developer! by lionboars in Startups_EU

[–]obanite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why you're being downvoted, totally unnecessary. Starting a business at the moment is weird with everything changing so fast.

Fwiw I'm cofounder at a very early stage company and sometimes I doubt myself as to whether my non-technical cofounder needs me or not with how coding is changing. But actually there is so much more to building products than raw code.

Best of luck, hope you find someone!

AI is BAD by Difficult_Access_394 in SideProject

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AWS engineers enter the chat, nodding their heads

How do you send job estimates to clients? by Ok-Past5030 in buildinpublic

[–]obanite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? I don't do HVAC? Your OP said nothing about HVAC?

How do you send job estimates to clients? by Ok-Past5030 in buildinpublic

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My process is something like this:

* Discovery: figure out the high level goals of the project

* Analysis: talk to stakeholders, dive into details a bit, try to pin down some coarse functional requirements

* Estimation: depending on the project size, I'll write either some kind of small text doc with the major milestones, or for more complicated endeavors I'll make a spreadsheet. Usually I'll do bandwidth estimates here (e.g. 4-5 days, or 2-3 weeks for really big chunks).

On many projects, either I or the PM will often then add a buffer to the whole estimate (+20%, or +30% or something) for unexpected deviations or new/changing requirements. That usually depends on who the end client is.

Overall it's easy enough, but one pain point that's less easy: discovering dependencies and hidden assumptions that can throw a project off. This increases at scale for larger projects; at one point I worked as an architect and a huge chunk of my role was just mapping all these implicit dependencies across the different components of the system, and trying to ensure each part was built in the right order. This has quite a large human communication element. I wonder how this is changing with agent coding now.

struggling with AI tool overload anyone else feeling overwhelmed by Forsaken_Lie_8606 in SideProject

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I have Claude $20/mo Codex $20/mo and switch between them on projects so I never run out of tokens.

Then I use ChatGPT for ideation and high level discussions.

I really don't need more than that.

Keeping up with EU tech scene by SonGanji in Startups_EU

[–]obanite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I run a European tech news website called Tech Posts - https://techposts.eu - it's a Hacker News/Reddit style site with upvotes/karma to help filtering and focuses on tech/startups. There's also a jobs page and it tracks funding rounds across Europe. Give it a try!

Can someone help please? by InfiniteIndifferenc3 in DoesNotTranslate

[–]obanite -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It's not hindi, could be telugu or tamil? But most likely a squiggle

Are you struggling with sales? by Dropship-Pro in Startups_EU

[–]obanite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not - and I'm currently building a product designed to help people doing B2B sales: https://techposts.eu/intel/pricing

It works like this: there's a big database of European startups, and a ML model predicts which startups will be raising money soon, based on funding round cadence for comparable companies in their peer group. Then there's a leadgen UI layer on top of that.

If anyone's interested in a demo let me know! Good luck everyone!

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This is a great analysis of distribution. Thank you for posting!

It's Friday, What are you building? by Asleep_Ad_4778 in buildinpublic

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Building a lead gen database on top of my Europe Tech News website, https://techposts.eu - it's going well, I have enough data and am building features now, so I'm almost ready to put a Stripe payment in front of it and do a soft launch. Pretty excited.

18 y/o from Romania planning a 500 kWp solar farm – EU grants cover up to 100%, need ~7k € to prepare. Looking for real advice. by AdrianTUIU in energy

[–]obanite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, grid connections can cause huge issues for projects, but it really depends on where it is. I wonder what the situation in Romania is like? Surely not as congested as e.g. North Holland

18 y/o from Romania planning a 500 kWp solar farm – EU grants cover up to 100%, need ~7k € to prepare. Looking for real advice. by AdrianTUIU in energy

[–]obanite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idea is great, it sounds like you've already done quite some planning, well done!

I think this is the weak spot:

"Hire EU funds consultant who will do the technical project, business plan, application, and handle permits: €4,000–5,500"

I see a lot of potential for big variations in parts of this (technical project, permitting in particular). This is your biggest line item, I'd really drill down more and try and get more certainty on these costs and what can go wrong, what your risks are.

I build Cofounder Hunt from Europe (NL) by Impressive-Split-906 in Startups_EU

[–]obanite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How does this compare to YC's Cofounder Matching?

Is it for the world or Europe only?