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by jdavid 18y ago
pick the worst name you can think of, it will make it easier to change it. after a few changes you will know when you have the right one. mediocre names tend to stick around too long.
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by jdavid 18y ago
i think you should go where your passion is.if you are board with php, you might be willing to put more hours in to another language. you will find that the more languages you know the easier it is to switch. i also think you should keep in
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by jdavid 18y ago
i would appreciate it if someone would come up with a feature branding organization, like energy star, or consumer reports for INTERNET providers. in the end these large corporations are going to find a way to do what they want, unless act
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by jdavid 18y ago
there are some direct connection things you could do if you were using adobe's servers, but at this point flash should be a much more flexible webtool than java.
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by jdavid 18y ago
its in the UDP packets. because there are now TCP and UDP packets someone could build a p2p network.
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by jdavid 18y ago
i would say that bitTorrent's are better performing than an overloaded client server transmission. at least you have a fighting chance, i would say thats pretty good QoS
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by jdavid 18y ago
I am excited about the typography and the new graphics engine. i wonder if their font engine is faster than ours is already in flash.
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by jdavid 18y ago
this can be solved by using a real ISP that does not oversell as much, instead of cheap comcast,timewarner, or att
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by jdavid 18y ago
i agree, but they will also want you to run a pilot to see how it goes.
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by jdavid 18y ago
on a failed startup of mine, i redid my taxes 3 years after i closed the company. i received $25k as a refund, and it cost me $4k for the accounting. good accounting is WORTH IT. had i used that firm in the first place i might have saved
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by jdavid 18y ago
i would much rather be ranked against FF users, than IE users. I suspect that I have more in common with FF users, and that my interest in designing a good site will better resonate with them.
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Ask YC: PHP6?
8 points by jdavid 18y ago|23 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
i think the problem with twitter is that they did not use a real time architecture, like email, irc, or some other messaging platform. instead i think they write each page dynamically off of a db call based on who subscribed where. ie, yo
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by jdavid 18y ago
when i was in college i created the site, icantspelldostoevsky.com. it was kind of a play on words, there was never a correct way to spell dostoevsky, and since he was an existential man, the site was meant as a philosophical discussion pla
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by jdavid 18y ago
i wish there was a mouse technology based on that. it would be sooooo cool to have your laptop just sense your movement to the left and right of it, as if you had two mice. but, what am i , thinking that would require someone to do someth
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by jdavid 18y ago
does anyone use one of these? http://www.amazon.com/C51-A04031-Laser-Virtual-Keyboard/dp/B...
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by jdavid 18y ago
i have one of these keyboards for my living room pc, it has the same spacing as a laptop keyboard, however mine has some strange & tiny backspace, for which i tend to hit the \ key instead. i highly recommend it, but maybe not for hack
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by jdavid 18y ago
why use a plain model M i sooooooo want one of these http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml
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by jdavid 18y ago
a thought: why are you ok coding alone, but with marketing you feel like you need someone around? i wonder if it has anything to do with confidence? when i am doing something i know. being alone is fun, because i feel productive. when i
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by jdavid 18y ago
streety, my point was to point out the irony of the situation to his roommate, i am sure they will work it out. This film class seems like a great class, both of them are learning something. I also think that the roommates father is trying
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by jdavid 18y ago
there are a couple of ways to look at it, but you first need to figure out what you are selling. in the case of myspace, they were creating a place for people without web skills and money to have a social website, it was geocities2.0 and i
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by jdavid 18y ago
lawyers charge $150-thousands of dollars per hour. For you to get legal council on this would require an expense of more than $400. If they want you to sign a 17 page legal document, ask for 17 * $650 an hour for your lawyer to read it a
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by jdavid 18y ago
a perfect example of a nearly french movie, where existential feelings get worse is CQ by roman coppola
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by jdavid 18y ago
http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2008/05/01/iventures10-sta... you should give it a shot, you have till the 15th of may to apply.
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by jdavid 18y ago
sweet post, i wanted to do that for a site i operate, who knows maybe i will put it in tonight.
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by jdavid 18y ago
jdavid.net for anyone that wants to read about my tech interests, rants, projects, startup life, and or some other personal adventures. i will be rethinking my blog in summer so any comments on what would interest folks like you would be of
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by jdavid 18y ago
thank you.
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Ask YC: living in Bay Area dorms?
5 points by jdavid 18y ago|2 comments
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by jdavid 18y ago
drinko, have you thought about putting this on Google App Engine? it would cut your server costs out, and if you are using dJango, that probably means that you are using python, which Google Apps Runs on. Google claims that an app engine a
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by jdavid 18y ago
you maybe right, every time someone left on one of our projects, we forfeited the code. ...and we are developers, it was always easier for us to take what we learned from the previous code, and then to design something simpler and more ele

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