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by tynan 13y ago
Not yet-- will be adding these. Bookmark and check back in a couple weeks!
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by tynan 13y ago
Thanks for the link-- I'm the creator of the site and I appreciate it.
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by tynan 13y ago
I don't look like a "poor bloke who has trouble talking to people" because I learned pickup and learned how to talk to people. I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and be taken under the wings of th
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by tynan 13y ago
It is me, but it was taken probably around 2005, when I was 24. Funny how much things change over the years...
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Just a quick thanks to HN
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by tynan 13y ago
Yeah... this is my 12th cruise or so now. I really love them. For a while I was going twice a year pretty regularly. The cruise aggregator started as a way for me to find the best prices (because cruisehotsheet.com went down), and I decided
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by tynan 13y ago
Thank you!
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by tynan 13y ago
Thank you! I actually redesigned it to be simpler on the flight over to where the cruise started.
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by tynan 13y ago
Will be writing that post very soon... I don't normally submit my own posts to HN, but I will submit that one if no one else does.
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by tynan 13y ago
Thank you. I love you, too.
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by tynan 13y ago
Original author here... I wrote the post in transit between those ports. On cruises you go to a lot of ports... this particular one ends up in Florida (Florence to Florida, with 8 stops or so)
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by tynan 13y ago
Author of the post, confirmed asshole, here. In most cruise ships you do not tip for anything until the end, and it is a flat rate. Enjoy.
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by tynan 13y ago
I'm the creator of this site... I tried some algorithms to build something like this. The problem is that there are peak seasons that make the price crazy expensive. To be on contiguous ships all year, the best price seemed to be aroun
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by tynan 13y ago
Scraping from a few sources and coallating the data. Hoping I make some money of commissions to fund buying access to good data.
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by tynan 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. This was just a weekend project, so I have a lot of improvements to make, but not a ton of spare time to dedicate to them. I'll get there, though. The low price is double occupancy-- a few people have gotten st
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by tynan 13y ago
It's intended to compete directly with hosted Wordpress. You can import directly from Wordpress XML, too.
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by tynan 13y ago
I forget exactly what we paid, but it was ~$7500, I think. Expensive, but we figured that it would build some trust and wouldn't be an embarrassing domain to have in your blog title (sett.com/alec vs superblog9000.com/alec).
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by tynan 13y ago
Sett ( http://sett.com ) It's a new blogging platform that helps people build audiences. Our oldest users (1 year) have seen roughly 100% increase in daily traffic, twice as many comments, etc. My personal blog has doubled da
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by tynan 13y ago
It's really poorly written, but here's what I wrote about it 8 years ago: http://tynan.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool
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by tynan 13y ago
To be fair, I never got the penguin :(
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by tynan 13y ago
Haha, thanks. I had a great time communal living in school. Everyone involved in the island is trustworthy, fair, reasonable, etc., so I think it will be good. We also outlined ways to deal with disputes in advance.
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by tynan 13y ago
Not really. Did as much research as I could, and most of the value of the island to me is having a group of friends with an island to build up by our own designs. Also, we did check it out before wiring the money. If it was burnt down or so
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by tynan 13y ago
I think the plan my friend was using was Rogers iPad plan... data only, but it was really reasonable.
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by tynan 13y ago
Awesome idea, thanks!
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by tynan 13y ago
We saw an unusually high amount of cemeteries on the way to the island... if the zombies rise up, we are totally screwed.
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by tynan 13y ago
I've seen those-- would prefer something with windows, and it would need to be able to withstand some pretty serious weather (maybe those can... haven't researched). Thinking probably a 30' yurt for the communal building, and
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by tynan 13y ago
Thanks! That's definitely the highlight reel!
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by tynan 13y ago
Thanks-- this is all very good relevant advice. Hadn't thought about digesting composter at all, but that's a great idea. I don't mind too much if people respectfully visit the island when we're not there. We told the re
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by tynan 13y ago
Yeah, but it's my ONLY island.
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by tynan 13y ago
VERY useful site-- thank you!

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