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by jdavid 18y ago
They are making a full motion movie. Supposedly the downside is they cased Spike as Keano Reaves. (i guess when i think about a 'film nior' space-cyber-punk-black-belt, i do not think about NEO)
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by jdavid 18y ago
I think they could make a whole series of prequels to the 5th element. I would love to see the adventures of "Corban Dallas"
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by jdavid 18y ago
october sky is AWESOME! And did anyone else find it really sexual when Jenifer Jason-Leigh was plugging Jude Law in? Don't forget the 13th Floor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor ) Let me know if you spot the 3dFx vs Power
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by jdavid 18y ago
I named my ubuntu box Jarvis that day, after seeing it twice. ;-)
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by jdavid 18y ago
When I was young, I thought mechanical engineering would be my ticket to the space race, but after seeing the movie hackers for the 1st time on the engineering floor in college, I thought hacking was COOOOL. I know it sounds lame, but I hav
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by jdavid 18y ago
other funding sources in Chicago, are Mason Wells, and http://www.portageventures.com/ Follow http://techcocktail.com/ if you want to see the tech vibe in ChiTown.
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by jdavid 18y ago
Milwaukee! It's a laidback city between Madison, WI (super liberal) and Chicago ( liberal ), and Milwaukee is a nice mix in between, which i would label progressive. Milwaukee has a great place called http://bucketworks.org which is a "fi
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by jdavid 18y ago
Idea 4, which is much like Idea 3. ========================================= Make Open Source viable for the "medical industry." There are numerous problems with deploying an opensource application environment when it is involved in the ca
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Ask HN: Y Combinator Wiki?
2 points by jdavid 18y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: good interview questions?
4 points by jdavid 18y ago|4 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
this is good news, i think. not that AFF, is a great business, but simply adding to the IPO count will help others do the same. i am still of the opinion that a majority of the funds in the hedge markets had cash conserved during the down
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by jdavid 18y ago
these people baffle me. if you do what you love, you will be better at it, and you will work harder at it. this guy does not want to work because he wants to hang out with his friends, when in reality if he had different people to entertain
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Ask YC: Saving Health Care.
5 points by jdavid 18y ago|3 comments
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Ask YC: Saving Inspiration
16 points by jdavid 18y ago|11 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
argh,... this is why VC firms don't agree to confidentiality. since its a 100m fund, they should give the 75 of us they breached with $25k-$100k as an i'm sorry.
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by jdavid 18y ago
I was just thinking this morning that if we had 10 or 12 companies that were all competing against each other maybe a few of them would have made some different decisions about what markets to search for. I think breaking up the company is
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by jdavid 18y ago
Have you ever heard of JIT Manufacturing? or just in time manufacturing? The process was DEVELOPED by the Japanese in the 80's to compete with the American giants. The Japanese do not produce a car, until they know it is needed. It took
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Ask YC: To save GM or not?
22 points by jdavid 18y ago|73 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
does anyone else think the hairless one looks like kevin spacey?
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by jdavid 18y ago
so for the most part i don't think i can answer in detail, but in public situations hi5's response has been that they have a dedicated pool of servers running the upload, and they store the file on a static server. once that server fills u
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by jdavid 18y ago
you should try couchsurfering.com i have friends that it has worked well for them. there are also some entrepreneurial clubs on there.
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Ask YC:a better way to save American Auto
3 points by jdavid 18y ago|14 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
where are you located? currently our interface is all in flash, but we have thought about a browser only option that might work on the iPhone or android as a web page. we have also talked about a potential plugin architecture to make it eas
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by jdavid 18y ago
sometimes you just want to feel heard.
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by jdavid 18y ago
its surprising that people continually choose arguments that are mono cultural. its a big world out there and societies have existed for millennia in a number of ways. its just hard to fathom that in a country that honors the freedom of r
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by jdavid 18y ago
i am all for the balance transfer tax of 0.3% its not game-able and its fair TO EVERYONE. i don't like tax policy that discriminates.
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by jdavid 18y ago
@scudco, you are trying to explain freedom to a domesticated person that has never experienced freedom. i feel like i am explaining the same arguments over and over to people that believe the must be mastered or complete chaos will ensue.
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by jdavid 18y ago
I unfortunately do not believe that is sufficient value in arguing about something that is so personal to people. A president's first concern should be to the sovereignty of a Nation (economy, education, infrastructure, trade, military), an
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by jdavid 18y ago
Ron Paul was the first. Obama copied much of what he was doing and brought it off line.
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by jdavid 18y ago
I have renewed hope in my startup SocialHelix we have had some new and interesting interest. Plus I know how I want to build the backend now. Graph services are tough.

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