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by jdavid 18y ago
right now yahoo has no store front feature which is why sumgMug charges $150. Adding a store front and allowing custom skins for your flickr page would offer more value to photographers and not require raising rates on pro accounts. I wou
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by jdavid 18y ago
the Mozilla foundation made $250million from the Google search bar and spread FF campaign.
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by jdavid 18y ago
unfortunately Yahoo has yet to learn that 'Caja' sucks. I just talked to some people at myspace yesterday and they are pulling Caja, just as Google Gadgets did and anyone else who has played with the technology. It really makes app develo
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by jdavid 18y ago
IBM reinvented itself in the 80s and 90s and came back strong with a drastically different culture. It is probably one of the coolest comeback stories second to Apple. The paring is that IBM does not have a content or distribution play op
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by jdavid 18y ago
Way to be someone that contributes to the 80s like recession, in a bullish economy these tactics will work, but in a down economy firing people will not boost the stock price. It will not improve Yahoo's brand, and it will hardly help them
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by jdavid 18y ago
i am just asking Yahoo to draw revenue from what they are GOOD at. They are a content distributor with a Great brand. They are not a search engine, and they do not have a fantastic Ad business. This would allow them to generate revenue o
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A 4 point plan to save Yahoo
13 points by jdavid 18y ago|24 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
i feel that way about my current contract job, but i have a few other notes coming from the perspective of someone who has lead teams. 'risky code sucks up tons of time' i don't think i have ever been on a project when expectations could re
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by jdavid 18y ago
i would like to know 1. how many sites before mine they were at 2. how happy i made the user 3. how angry i made the user 4. a full detail of their computer specs. so i can set my expectations on site performance
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by jdavid 18y ago
there is no reason not to explore this line of thinking, however, there would be an even greater likelihood that someone would want to steal a planes reactor to make some sort of bomb. i think it would be safer to have the nuclear reactors
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by jdavid 18y ago
seems like gates is gearing up to take advantage of some of those Obama tax credits.
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by jdavid 18y ago
i think the best thing about tables design is that you can design something to work on multiple platforms and to flow better. when using tables you are stuck to the resolution you are designing for, but in a good table-less design you can a
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by jdavid 18y ago
ok, step one skip the great idea thing. the reality is that the internet is a large enough for competitors in any market. step 2 is build something you know well, it will make it easier to copy and you might find a few things to innovate
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by jdavid 18y ago
Nintendo is pretty sick, with like $500k in profit per employee and $2.5 million in revenue per employee. http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/31/fortune-nintendo-is-beatin... We should all aspire to build companies like Nintendo, that are not
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by jdavid 18y ago
sometimes the only way to change something, requires that it first gets out of control. its hard to create a revolution against nothing.
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by jdavid 18y ago
i have been wanting to see an opensource media player that can compete with the zune and or ipod. using android would be a good OS for it and make apps portable so the largest difference would be if the mobile phone was installed or turned
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by jdavid 18y ago
I think LOC is a better measure of complexity than productivity. and complexity hits you in maintability, growth, performance, and ultimately cost.
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by jdavid 18y ago
i think IDE has a big role in this, with Visual Studio i feel so much more productive, but it also puts so much information at my finger tips, and programing in C# or VB.net were really pattern based. programing raw javascript and dealing w
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by jdavid 18y ago
when i closed the doors on one of my business ventures i did the same for the employees that were honest with me. the other ones just left before hand anyways. today we still talk and one day my friend and former employee says he will rep
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Ask YC:going to Flash Camp?
3 points by jdavid 18y ago|1 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
this can be really great if you are starting a company and it is in pre ipo growth mode, somethimes you have to pay tax on shares that are not sellable.
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by jdavid 18y ago
the money has to go somewhere, and alot of people are telling you to park it somewhere for 5 years. what better place is there to park some equity than in a new startup?
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by jdavid 18y ago
well, now we all know that at page 3 you thought we should all read it. did you read past page 3?
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by jdavid 18y ago
doh, i actually was hoping that iceland was more shielded from this than japan. maybe, if they go through this first, they will be the first to succeed post Credit Crisis.
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by jdavid 18y ago
Ok, i have used both in both open social environments and large corporate websites. // // ==MooTools== -very simple, very light, almost minimalistic -the community is more on the "creative" and "artist" side of things, the site just looks
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by jdavid 18y ago
ummmm, just a note, did everyone notice ALL of the icons on the header of this site?
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Ask YC: clustering in Glassfishv2
1 points by jdavid 18y ago|0 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
it is however hard to be the NORM and to be PASSIONATE. the norm is the mean, its the center of a bell curve. it would be like running around and shouting, "i love to be human," but wait,... normal people don't do that. normal people are b
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by jdavid 18y ago
arjungmenon, email me i understand were you are comming from, but my advice would be to not worry about the girls. 1. if you are on this site you want to start a company, and i have yet to have a girlfriend that accepts my non traditional l
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by jdavid 18y ago
here are some notes on getting your own ec2 hadoop single computer cluster upd, these are rough Getting hadoop and hbase running in single server mode I am going to track my progress and take some notes on how a newb to the linux world woul

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