Fusion 360 for both CAD and CAM, and specifically, a lot of great machining knowledge, including a lot of stuff on tormach CNC: https://www.youtube.com/user/saunixcomp
Maybe I've been working with too many millennials lately, but personally, I wish more people I worked with were perfectionists! My subjective observation is overall commitment to quality has generally decrease over the last decade of my career.
I know I have OCD tendencies, and I've found that if I can harness it properly (mostly by just being aware of when I am in a obsessive state) I can really internalize the topic at hand and add the new knowledge/skill to my everyday repertoire.
Are you sure its not Millennials but instead your expectations? Perhaps they are at their desks wondering why you are so commited to low value details.
I worked with one guy once where he wanted the "ultimate flexibility" and every data model object basically became a database table with the columns 'key' and 'value'. Trying to think of everything ahead of time has its own problems...
I wrote a few indicators on Tradestation back in the mid 2000's and had a similar result after using them with an automated trading strategy, albeit less loss (somewhere around $10k). I was trading on 3-1 margin and closed all positions before the end of the day. Very stressful, I too let emotion interrupt trades, etc. Fun to develop, painful to execute. I'm much happier creating startups! =)
I've always loved minimalist websites and text. Typography was my favorite style in my graphic design classes. Like Pixel Art I feel like these things can be implemented very well but get a bad rap for being "retro" or "dated".
How is this different than securities sold on public stock markets? If you hold a large position in a nasdaq 100 stock and drop a large sell order on the ECN's, you are surely going to see a similar (albeit not as dramatic) phenomenon. Does that mean the market cap of stocks shouldn't be used to assess value?
The public stock market is highly regulated, which makes price manipulation and insider trading more difficult as it is illegal and suspicious trades will be investigated. The ETH market is completely unregulated, hence the risk of manipulation is much higher.
Also, NASDAQ stocks represent the underlying value (as well as future revenue expectations) of a real-world company, hence short-selling your stock to manipulate the price (usually) doesn't make much sense if the fundamentals of the underlying company are good, as investors that are optimistic about the future of the company will happily buy the stock that you sell. Of course there are situations where large funds speculate against companies or even governments, but this is (usually) only possible if there is a fundamental issue in the underlying asset such as a nation in a deep recession or debt crisis.
For ETH there is currently no underlying asset that would have a value in the real world and which could serve as an "anchor of trust" for an investor. It should therefore be much easier to manipulate and speculate against ETH as there is little external information beyond the exchange rate that other investors have as a basis for their valuation. Also, as of now there is no large economic process that depends on the existence and functioning of ETH, hence there would be very little external pressure to keep the currency alive if people started speculating against it.
For most cryptocurrencies, the initial developers / creators are similar to the founders of a publicly traded company in the sense that they possess a large fraction of the shares of the company / number of coins. What's different is that there is little for the "crypto-shareholders" to hold on to their coins in case of a sharp price drop, as there is no underlying asset that their coins represent. Economically, they are highly incentivized to "cash out" as soon as they think that the price has reached its maximum value (and this is what I expect will happen with many crypto-currencies as soon as the market cools down). With shares this is different as ownership of the share allows you to continuously extract value from the underlying company in the form of dividends, hence the incentive for selling your shares is much smaller even if you think that the share price has reached its maximum.
I would therefore be very cautious about long-term investments in ETH, as there is no safety net and no guarantor behind the value. And while this is great for gambling, it does not provide a viable platform to build real world applications on top of (in my opinion).
My startup has a spark card and being able to get the amazon gift cards as the 2% bonus was great, but unfortunately for some reason amazon gift cards are no longer available as one of the gift card options. Had to start getting home depot and target cards instead :/.
