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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 internation…

Hi nicko. Do you have an email address I could ping you on. Would love to quiz you about your experience :)

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 par…

> 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 wh…

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 hom…

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 sto…

Perhaps, but I would have put understanding the risks within the scope of understanding the instruments.

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 tr…

Thanks for all those essays Joel. They gave me a flying head start into how software development should be done when I got started.

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 …

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.

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…

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 f…

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 th…

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 pla…

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 …

Sunshine? Gotta love that entrepreneurial optimism there Tom!

Now just need an iphone friendly page...

Hey guys, I was thinking the other day that I would love to read a book that was essentially a catalogue of all known business models (not just web startups) with examples and disc…

Rogue is on the iPhone. Nethack and Dwarf Fortress would be amazing. Does anyone have any inside info?

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 fu…

Anyone else here been following Chris Crawford's adventures into interactive fiction in trying to get away from the rule based approaches?

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 a…