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RSS is still awesome. Some tips for trying it in 2022(medium.com)
10 points by adsyoung 5y ago|1 comments
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by adsyoung 15y ago
My favourite travel startup is Adioso.com because they focus on simply finding you the cheapest flight whether you are looking to go somewhere specific or just anywhere international. Direct and to the point, no pointless social features.
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by adsyoung 16y ago
Hi nicko. Do you have an email address I could ping you on. Would love to quiz you about your experience :)
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by adsyoung 16y ago
I read something once that said you should do as many deals as possible. In theory, whenever you do a deal (a good deal), you are getting something you want and so is the other party. So the more deals you do, the more progress you are maki
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by adsyoung 16y ago
> You write that like it's unusual. It's not - it's how life works. True. How about substantially more so than usual? > If you want more return, you have to play against someone who thinks that you're incorrect and is willing to pay
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by adsyoung 16y ago
Right, so they didn't really understand the risks involved. It's not like thousands of people woke up one morning and independently, by coincidence, decided to default on their homes. It's a long complex causal chain, with snow-balling effe
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by adsyoung 16y ago
Nice one. For me the big takeaway from all of this has definitely been that when things get too complex, all sorts of things that we rely on for the system to function properly stop working. In particular, the hiding of risk removes a lot o
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by adsyoung 16y ago
Perhaps, but I would have put understanding the risks within the scope of understanding the instruments.
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by adsyoung 16y ago
And yet a lot of the interviews I've heard about the crisis indicate a lot of the people dealing in them and rating them did not understand them. Telling people that they should try harder is unlikely to solve the problem in the future I th
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Thanks for all those essays Joel. They gave me a flying head start into how software development should be done when I got started.
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by adsyoung 17y ago
As someone who, like you, is trying to figure out the right thing to do in Melbourne, it's hard to say isn't it. On the one hand things seem so ridiculous in terms of debt. On the other hand we have strong population growth and demand here
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Agreed, I wish the world had more like him. Even when wrong, he's wrong in interesting ways and we end up learning something new.
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Aside from the censorship issues (I know which end of that spectrum Senator Conroy sits and I can't imagine him moving), I cannot believe they are going ahead with a plan that they have been told repeatedly will fail. From the tv debate hel
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Thanks. I agree, although perhaps you underestimate your ability to influence some of the top recruiters in the world? I'm just trying to understand where the criticism is coming from because I don't get it.
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Joel, on a slight tangent...we've been seeing all sorts of Jeff and Joel bashing posts lately, which personally I don't get why people get so worked up. If I had to take a guess though, it would be that as you guys get more and more success
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by adsyoung 17y ago
That's certainly an interesting take. Would you say the same thing about poor people that are earning their living as a result of war or other things that negatively impact the planet as a whole?
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by adsyoung 17y ago
How exactly is stating that a product has less impact on the environment in any way political? Is there a brand of politics I'm not aware of that says that building piles of toxic waste is a good thing?
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Sunshine? Gotta love that entrepreneurial optimism there Tom!
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NetHack arrives on the iPhone(toucharcade.com)
2 points by adsyoung 17y ago|0 comments
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Now just need an iphone friendly page...
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Ask HN: Catalogue of business models
8 points by adsyoung 17y ago|2 comments
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Rogue is on the iPhone. Nethack and Dwarf Fortress would be amazing. Does anyone have any inside info?
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by adsyoung 17y ago
I agree. Even if he is right in his approach, he could really do with being teamed up with someone who has a personality as strong as his and is much better at the aesthetic and fun part. The sad thing about BOP2K is that for all the potent
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Anyone else here been following Chris Crawford's adventures into interactive fiction in trying to get away from the rule based approaches?
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Yeah doing some more thought on the issue I reached the same conclusion. It would be great if someone could prove that I am consistent enough in what I can control and my body is also producing a roughly consistent random factor on top of t
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Maybe not a great deal but there is something going on there. Discussing basketball in terms of coin flips which takes skill and technique out of the equation is definetely missing something key or so it would seem to the player. If you can
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by adsyoung 17y ago
I've been playing 2-3 times a week for 18 years at a high grade. I have no doubt its much less of a variable in the NBA but I am suggesting it is a variable that rarely gets mentioned in that there a number of definitions people could take
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by adsyoung 17y ago
Just to add to that, the other variable that I recognise as a player is your feel for the weight of the ball at any given time or night. Sometimes it feels like you're just guessing how hard to shoot and other times it feels like you could
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by adsyoung 17y ago
These articles always bug me some what as they usually leave out the issue of technique. There are certainly times when I start heaving the ball at the ring with a lot less focus on technique and without taking the time to set my feet corre
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by adsyoung 17y ago
a) Is it working? If not, why? b) Do you think you know how to do it better? If yes to both then do it. If no to a) then you'd want to be fairly confident that they got it wrong in some way and didn't just prove it to be a bad idea.

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