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Widget Graphics Platform Benchmarks (Flash, js, silverlight, java, JavaFX)(bubblemark.com)
2 points by jdavid 19y ago|0 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
I found this from 4braham in Madison, WI. the framework videos make it look exactly like rails, but in PHP. i think its pretty neat, but if i was going to use it i would still have to abstract a custom MODEL for it, because we are using S
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Hacker Foundation && Hacker Spaces(hackerfoundation.org)
13 points by jdavid 19y ago|0 comments
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Railslike PHP Framework: Code Igniter(codeigniter.com)
13 points by jdavid 19y ago|33 comments
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Milwaukee is now 5th fastest growing startup hub.(jsonline.com)
6 points by jdavid 19y ago|0 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
this brings up a point.. do we need a YC hacker housing feed? We are moving from the Midwest and are interested in meeting as many people out there as possible. I have been trying Roommates.com now for a while, but many people there are n
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by jdavid 19y ago
there is only one reason to sell a business, YOU WANT OUT. if you are profitable and you want out, you have to ask; "will this enable me to do my next activity?" if not, then don't sell yet you are much better off growing your business. if
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by jdavid 19y ago
you have to ask what is riskier a bunch of guys and gals fighting for their first chance, or a bank full of big wigs that have f'd up and are trying to refinance? Most recessions are caused by over production or over speculation of some so
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by jdavid 19y ago
my grandma can, but she does not have an account on hacker news. actually my great great grandfather made a fortune in the depression, well, immediately after it.
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by jdavid 19y ago
i doubt we would have seen 7-8% unemployment. the US wines when unemployment reaches 4%. Typically in recessions large companies lay people off to protect share price and free up cash. It's just an excuse to shareholders to let go some o
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by jdavid 19y ago
My family had stock in Montana Power before the decided to become a Fiber company in 2001. the stock price was 70+ and 2 months later it was trading for cents.
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by jdavid 19y ago
$2/share might be what it takes for JPMorgan to guarantee a profit. I wonder what the real market value is of Bear Stearns is, at $2 a share and a market value in 12 months of $10 a share sounds like a great investment for JPMorgan, and wil
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by jdavid 19y ago
or worse some bonehead warmonger. war and sinking economies have some strange correlation.
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by jdavid 19y ago
Summary: replacing HTML with flash is lame. its like making a movie out of a videogame, or a book just because you can. if you are going to adapt something for a new media, you should do it because you can provide an exponentially better in
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by jdavid 19y ago
you are a startup, the only market analysis you need are sales. overtime update your business plan with things you find on the web, and compare them to your sales figures. the only customers you should trust are the ones willing to actuall
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by jdavid 19y ago
this looked interesting too http://thrudb.org/
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by jdavid 19y ago
the problem with simple ideas for aws, is that you need to either pay via data, bandwidth or instance hours. i would love to pay for process hours on some software. i wish there was standard way for aws customers to exchange services based
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by jdavid 19y ago
unlike pg suggests that good hackers have good grammar, i can't spell, even though i was in advanced english. written language is not like code at all. i am finding it easier to learn Japanese than i did English.
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by jdavid 19y ago
where should we play?
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by jdavid 19y ago
i have a 4 player chess board.
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by jdavid 19y ago
i have always wanted to write an AI for GO, maybe after this company i can play around with ideas like that.
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by jdavid 19y ago
i am good at chess... (thanks dad) but that does not make it fun to play. i actually like "settlers" a lot right now. "tides of iron" is pretty cool "B5 CCG" is a blast to play twice a year but my all time favorite is RISK
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by jdavid 19y ago
"payment details" i am a paying customer of s3 and ec2. are you suggesting i should have a simpleDB account?
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by jdavid 19y ago
thats what i would like to know. i am still waiting on access to the beta. are you up with doing an S3 version? it looks like a cool path would be: # support s3 # support some cache (memcache/ThruDB) # support SimpleDB with cache
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by jdavid 19y ago
this is a little more complicated/ costly then i care to implement on a new site. Yes the site is on ec2, but i think i am going to seriously avoid MySQL in aws. if a server crashes your log files are not valid, because the virtual machin
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ThruDB accelerate aws.S3 or other cross system calls(trac.thrudb.org)
1 points by jdavid 19y ago|0 comments
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Ask YC: how is SimpleDB?
6 points by jdavid 19y ago|12 comments
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Ask YC:how do you do Sessions on EC2?
4 points by jdavid 19y ago|12 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
to sum it up, create a place for them to have fun, and they will find you.
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by jdavid 19y ago
I meet half of my current core team, buy not building a startup, but by building my local tech community. I started a casual think tank, Fireseedgroup.net to help focus the community on tech related projects. When barcamps started up, well

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