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by jdavid 16y ago
Ok, did you listen to the bill? Paul is not just trying to revert airport security, he is trying to introduce legislation that removes immunity from the government for anything that a citizen would not have. The problem with Paul is he is a
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by jdavid 16y ago
This will likely appeal to the identi.ca and diaspora crowd, but will not appeal to the facebook crowd. there are two problems with OpenID. #1 the UX has been killed by committee more than once. ( i should know I worked on it. ) #2
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by jdavid 16y ago
in even 3 months that employee has formed social bonds with a lot of people in the company. keeping everyone happy is good business. if someone is not working out, you should act quickly rather than slowly.
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by jdavid 16y ago
You should use "Offer HN:"
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by jdavid 16y ago
Dunbar's number is real. However the truth of the number is from research of Apes. I am excited for Path, but until it works on Palm Pre and Android, it just wont be for me and my friends.
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by jdavid 16y ago
It would be nice if the Fed was putting this much effort into lowering the interest rate on credit cards, and other actual consumer fees, that could effect buying power for computers, technology software, and Christmas. Restoring the housin
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Ask HN: SVYC vs. BostonYC?
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by jdavid 16y ago
@pg, i think the average is a bad way of doing it. it discourages people from commenting on low-traffic, or old threads. the game becomes that of other threaded comment systems where you get more up votes on heavily traffic-ed threads. it
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by jdavid 16y ago
I think the accessibility of steampunk is what makes it so popular. Popular like say a fantasy novel of orcs, elves, and fairies. Charles seems to lump steampunk in with science fiction the way Starwars fans seem to think that Starwars has
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Open HN: The Default is Social
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by jdavid 16y ago
yeah, that happens when heroku can't respond.
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by jdavid 16y ago
i guess you could say that, but the language select is performed by dial tones only. more accurately it's a dialtone menu system with a transcription callback to an conference call of one. the largest amount of error happens with the trans
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by jdavid 16y ago
we could call someone back, if we can't modify the call. hmm? I wonder if there is a call back if the modify call fails.
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by jdavid 16y ago
Any other hackers go to Failcon?
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by jdavid 16y ago
dude, remember this is 4 hours work, in a hackday environment with weak wifi. api's were breaking left and right, but the good folks at apigee, heroku and twilio were responsive. i guess twilio does not handle 301 redirects for audio files
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Show HN: 415-483-1860 twilio-translator
21 points by jdavid 16y ago|13 comments
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by jdavid 16y ago
anyone else figure out that cable channels were blocked with bandpass filters when they were a kid? #freeHBO
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by jdavid 16y ago
1st, what made macs awesome is how well they target multiple platforms. having access to apple, linux and windows user on one device was awesome. 2nd, chrome and firefox will still auto download flash, so really what this does is it makes s
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by jdavid 16y ago
I suppose these are good questions for a potential co-founder. I wonder if one could check a box on their application to add it to the co-founder pool?
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by jdavid 16y ago
Questions #Determination " maybe you should ask for a time when you saw something through, something that was tough, and at your core hard to do. basically what was your last marathon?" # flexibility " when were your basic assumptions c
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by jdavid 16y ago
#naughtiness if you are looking for a less than kosher time a founder hacked the system. maybe you should ask for that. i know personally would have put a more vulnerable answer up there.
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by jdavid 16y ago
#friendship Maybe you should ask, if you don't have a co-founder, why? And what would you look for in a good 1st hire/ partner?
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by jdavid 16y ago
If this is a joke, then it's a riot. Else do not read into this, this is not javascript.
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by jdavid 16y ago
(jk, but) Apple buying Tesla, would be bold, big and .... very interesting. BMW would shit their pants. Which would you rather have, an Apple Power Roadster, or an M5?
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by jdavid 16y ago
link? i'd love to see the journalism on this.
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by jdavid 16y ago
nVidia is a good buy, but i doubt they would sell. nVidia's stock is at $11 a share and if people were buying more new computers, it would be at $45, if nVidia enters... the CPU market, I think they will hit between $75-100 a share. AMD is
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by jdavid 16y ago
as some have pointed out to me over the years, market caps, do not include all private equity. some of these companies might have private equity that is not included in the public stock price. secondly, when a company with a solid stock pr
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by jdavid 16y ago
i try not to work for car salesmen and in such a case it would be hard for such a person to fit into the company. @philwelch, it falls into the category of anti-patterns. the idea is that because it's open and part of the process, its not
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by jdavid 16y ago
this is pricing to the market versus within the company. I guess i should have specified that employees should only price against others in a company. also salaries above $200k are silly. there are much better ways to fiscally reward a so
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by jdavid 16y ago
There might however be a huge advantage for 'underpaid' employee's to know they are not paid well. if pay equates to skill, or productivity, which in America is the general idea, then underpaid employees are under performing ones. Companies

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