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by tomhoward 1y ago
This is what it became: https://volantio.com https://amadeus.com/en/airlines/products/volantio https://amadeus.com/en/blog/articles/creating-a-private-resa...
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by tomhoward 1y ago
I love to think that it’s your shared love of Custard that’s kept you and your wife together all this time! I too wrote for my campus newspaper - Monash Caulfield. I didn’t interview Custard (I did interview Snout, Earthmen and Atticus). Bu
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by tomhoward 1y ago
Well, Triple Z is an independent/community station, not ABC! I know that song/line well and remember mentions of Custard being “banned” by Triple Z in the band’s early days, but I can’t find any details. Do you know why they banne
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by tomhoward 1y ago
I suspect they had him in mind right from the start and even developed the character for him. Custard/McCormack are Brisbane-based and Bluey has been produced from a Brisbane studio since the very beginning. The writers/producers
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by tomhoward 1y ago
For those not aware… The voice actor for Bandit, Dave McCormack, was not previously known as an actor or voice artist, but he has been known in Australia since the early 90s as an indie rock band frontman. The band he fronted, Custard, star
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by tomhoward 2y ago
They’ve cranked up the fees for renewals. New registrations of .com domains are €11 whereas renewals are €32. Some long-tail TLDs are much much more. When you have as many domains (i.e. amazing future business opportunities!) as I do, that
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I felt a lump in my throat as it came to mind while I drove around today with my 4yo son in the back, thinking about how to give him a “good life”.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Indeed, though HN didn't use a database when it was first built. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515628
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Good on you for being willing to try improving. HN doesn’t really distinguish between “punching down” and “punching up”, and prefers to avoid “punching” at all. The guiding principle to keep top of mind is “intellectual curiosity”. There’s
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by tomhoward 2y ago
That’s not my argument at all. You’re responding to a straw man interpretation of what I wrote. I’m saying that for a country like the US, the idea that brain-draining the best from the rest of the world will have unmitigated positive outco
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I’m just saying every perceived benefit has some kind of cost or perverse consequence, eventually. Please feel free to point to a specific example of a policy that has been successfully implemented that contradicts this principle.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Yes of course but when articles like this (and the general policy/assumption in the US) just blankly asserts that we can just “brain-drain” our way back to prosperity and dominance, there isn’t much nuanced consideration of the limits,
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by tomhoward 2y ago
> This is basically an argument that China should become more like North Korea rather than the other way around. How exactly? I’m no pro-China advocate (I’m Australian and live with the mixed outcomes of our ties with China, and I have n
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I worry that all the replies to my comment will be claims about what percentage of the smartest and most productive people will want to move to the US in practice, thereby avoiding debating the central point. The first reply asserted that m
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I edited that sentence to be less absolutist, but still, isn't this essentially what this article and many people are advocating? Attracting all the smartest and most productive people in the world to move to the US? How is that a misc
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by tomhoward 2y ago
There's an implicit assumption in the article and the comments here that "brain drain the world" is a free lunch. But does anyone think through to the end-game of that? That when you drain the most smart/productive peopl
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I just deleted it from my phone, yesterday. I haven't actively used it in I don't know how many years; maybe briefly last year when traveling o/s and needing to make a landline call to a number back home, but other than that,
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Yeah it’s not a great explanation. To me (and I’m of the era they’re describing so I used it a lot) it’s simply that _blank is a reserved keyword that means open the link in a new, unnamed window. Other reserved keywords for “target” are
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Consider Melbourne if you prefer Northern CA climate and, well, other differences.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
It's not "castigating" or criticising potential users. It's advising founders not to waste resources attracting large numbers of visitors who are unlikely to be potential users, and instead do the hard work to attract an
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by tomhoward 2y ago
"...once it is updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System".
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by tomhoward 2y ago
It’s been a campaign of Mike Cernovich’s for a long time.
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by tomhoward 2y ago
The worry is not so much that they’ll steal your IP (good legal protection can prevent that), but those kinds of corporate VC funds are generally looking to invest in things that fit in with their own corporate strategy and plan. The invest
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I've seen it work once, but it was hard over the long term: LIFX (smart light globes) [1], which was launched on Kickstarter in 2012 by people working from the same co-working space and accelerator I was involved with then (so I kinda
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by tomhoward 2y ago
The founder was already super rich and proven. I don't know much about the details about how it got started (i.e., how much Palmer Luckey self-funded it in the early stages) but the fact that he'd already built/sold Oculus wa
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by tomhoward 2y ago
They also all got started several decades ago when there were huge new blue ocean opportunities to pursue and much less competition for capital. And other many competitors have failed along the way. (Remember Amiga, Wang, Gateway, many othe
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by tomhoward 2y ago
Investors are generally wanting to see little existing competition so that’s not really the issue. They’re more concerned with factors that will cause the company to self-destruct. Running out of money before hitting PMF and growth is the m
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by tomhoward 2y ago
That’s a big part of it. But mostly it’s that your dev+deploy+evaluate cycle is so much slower. With web software you can write a feature or bug-fix and push to prod in minutes - and repeat that many times a day. With hardware each equivale
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by tomhoward 2y ago
I don’t think it’s just a UK thing, or that it’s much easier to start a hardware startup in the USA. I think it’s more that the bar for getting a hardware startup off the ground is much higher than a software startup - everywhere in the wor
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by tomhoward 2y ago
This seems quite an accusatory comment! Taxpayer-funded TV stations aren’t showing major commercial sport in Australia or anywhere else, really. If it’s not exclusive to pay television, it’s on free-to-air commercial networks. These are ful

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