JacobAldridge

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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
TIL ! Let's hope that doesn't come back to haunt me...
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Yeah, I debated that before posting. It’s all already public information, and I know it won’t do too much from an Op Sec perspective but I planned to edit the post once the discussion drops off the front page.
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
When I got my first phone number (circa 2000?), I asked for something memorable. The operator rattled off 0427 151 181, which sounded fine enough. Then he pointed out it was my birthday - 15/11/81. I think that’s pretty nifty, but
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
There was a nice little side-discussion about Chesterton's Fence on here recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31340408 (that's the parent comment that adds a little context). In my work as a business ad
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I’ve dived into and achieved a range of things that make me happy, from parenthood to best-selling books. The one that most people want to hear more about is my Guinness World record for non-stop movie watching - https://jacobald
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
An interesting note right at the end, so in case anyone missed it: this same launch is believed to be the source of 5 titanium "spaceballs" that fell onto New Zealand in 1972. While the odds are low of any space debris hitting lan
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I don't doubt that coffee and caffeine can exacerbate some things. For me though, no (or at least, not yet). And I'm a fairly heavy coffee drinker (maybe not by HN standards?) - especially since adding fatherhood to the mix, I&#x2
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Perhaps not tech-stack specific, but I've built my business career being the 'deep generalist'. From a visual perspective, we often think of the Specialist as Narrow-but-Deep, and the Generalist as Wide-but-Shallow. That&#x27
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
In 2008 it had only recently changed names from 'Startup News', and YC was giving startup founders $6,000 each (+ $6,000) to do the program - this week I read about someone doing a pre-seed raise of $1.2 million!
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I share that story quite often, as an example of practical thinking to manage a manager.
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Did anybody else have an issue with "She wants to see a 10% growth?", and then Excel autofills the following quarters linearly (+$100 / $200 / $300) not exponentially (+10%)? Never extrapolate your cells from just 2 fiel
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Yes - if I'm interpreting that rapidly-changing GIF correctly, where previously people were drawn to the brand name now their eyes focused on "100% Orange" ... which completely commoditizes the contents. "I couldn't
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
On a similar theme, I often think of Victor Frankl - "Between action and reaction, there is choice." Another one I like: "A Founder spends a few years doing what most people won't, so they can spend the rest of their lif
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Ask HN: What are some good sources of data that most people don't know about?
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I most commonly apply Chesterton's Fence in the context of new employees / managers. In that instance, it's more about naivety or ego ("I know better"), and less about needing to read the ancient runes to fully unde
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
An aside, but one of my more fun small pranks involved two fortune cookies in the office circa 2007. I extracted the real fortunes, and inserted two of my own. When a friend dropped by, I handed him one and took the other. His fortune read
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
> I always wonder how many words have an etymology which predates written use significantly due to the "class" of people who use that word I studied a bit of Shakespeare at university, and my awesome lecturer ( https:/&#x2
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I momentarily thought "Me too", but it turns out there was a kid about 10 year younger than my dad who went to the same-named school at the same time but in a different State. So ultimately all that searching his name revealed was
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
Nice that some sites better remember ancient history than I do!
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I'm still waiting for the business use case that recommends .rodeo If you want to be global, avoid most country-specific domains, but there are a few exceptions that seem to have achieved traction - .io is tech-trendy, .tv was big for
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
I have a similar 'rule' (advising to small businesses) - as a company scales from 1 to 12 to 35 to 120 to 1000 people [1], they move through different phases. So I see a lot of my clients in the 12-35 person 'Process' ph
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by JacobAldridge 4y ago
"Crypto-Soros" is an excellent reference; I believe some of the Pound's fundamental weakness stemmed from a period of high inflation and low interest rates.
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by JacobAldridge 5y ago
My understanding of “foreign sourced” is that it usually applies to things like pensions, dividends, rental income. If you’re working, the source of the income is where you do the work - not saying you can’t fly under the radar and not pay
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by JacobAldridge 5y ago
As someone with barely enough knowledge to be dangerous who has been learning more of late, can I just confirm you’re talking about Hal Finney? Or someone else?
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by JacobAldridge 5y ago
I’m in Australia, so comparatively it’s also not far from Watford.
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by JacobAldridge 5y ago
UnifiedAR | Full-time | North America Account Manager | Remote https://www.unifiedar.com/ At UnifiedAR we’re making Interactive Print (Augmented Reality) easy for our Print and Agency partners, providing a simple SaaS platf
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by JacobAldridge 5y ago
Not even close! You can lose tax residency the say you leave ... or you can be overseas for years on end, and still be an Australian tax resident (did that myself for example!). The ATO is notorious for being one of the hardest tax system
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by JacobAldridge 6y ago
For my 8th birthday I was gifted about $30 total from a few relatives, juuust enough (iirc) to buy an annual subscription to MAD Magazine. My mother talked me out of it (or basically told me I wasn’t allowed). One of the very few regrets in
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by JacobAldridge 6y ago
If you’re making Software Engineer money, I understand that the Foreign Tax Credit (FTC) is almost always going to be better than the Foreign Earned Income Exemption (FEIE) which is hard to revoke as your income increases.
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by JacobAldridge 6y ago
I watched “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970) for the first time last weekend. Turns out the film was made in Yugoslavia (Croatia today) because the Yugoslav army still used WWII-era Sherman tanks, which were part of the plot so could be cheaply access

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