Wait, what?
How is this even possible?
Elan

A text editor, terminal compiler, and very old fashioned programming techniques. The entire programming was hand typed before a single compile, and then everything compiled at once. Frankly it is not possible for most of the world now. You would need a team of 10 programmers working for 6 months, lots of version controls, and even then typically the system would be filled with problems after these 6 months, have incoherencies and so on.

This is a fun hobby, my real job - which involves ludicrously more concentration - is composing classical music.

In the old days, programmers would write a complex computer game alone in far shorter time than what the Hollywood-like teams produce today. Some hardcore programmers reading this - not the ones taught at university but the ones who start coding aged 10-14 so that it becomes a second language - will understand this completely.

I will let everyone here in on a more pleasant secret. My very first post on the TMF boards was a question about Mechanical Investing in 1999, and I remember extremely clearly how helpful you were Elan. Back then it was TMFElan. I worked with Elan, Kuperman, MoeBruin, they were great guys and great days. You have really been so consistent and wonderful over all these years Elan.

So what I wanted to conclude sounds far fetched but it is perfectly realistic, if you get the epistemology right. Without Elan answering me so especially diligently back in 1999, I might not have been such frequently collaborator with our MI research in the late 90s and early 2000s. At least if the latter was true, then the result would be certain - this new shrewdom.com board would not exist.

So there you have it. This post is dedicated wholeheartedly to Elan.

- Manlobbi