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by jdavid 19y ago
I have tried unsuccessfully several times.
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by jdavid 19y ago
The entrepreneur in me say, no, no, no, there has to be the perfect gem that fits this profile. But the "experienced" entrepreneur in me say this is totally right. FOUNDERS are founders and are with the idea from the start to the end. Foun
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by jdavid 19y ago
Apple is too good to merge with Sun who is too good for Apple. So you really think that round table could support those two CEOs? I think it is more likely for Apple to scoop up AMD. In 2 years Steve Jobs will need a reason for all Apple u
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by jdavid 19y ago
not really what i am looking for. i want something less grandma friendly and more hardcore friendly. where are the file trees for instance?
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by jdavid 19y ago
speaking of which i hate nautilus. any suggestions for something better. windows explorer sucks too, but its better than nautilus and finder.
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by jdavid 19y ago
pandora FTW! stations i created "rabbit in the moon" "hacker radio" "garbage" "fluke" any other cool strings to create stations off of?
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by jdavid 19y ago
to sometimes visit us in MKE. or us to visit in Chicago.
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by jdavid 19y ago
ok another question, is there a way to get tiled icons in for ubuntu's desktop? i don't like it when long filenames wrap around. (*X indicate image data) example XXXXXXX Title with extension.ext XXXXXXX file date XXXXXXX file size
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by jdavid 19y ago
EC2 and S3 rock. I sit on the ec2ubuntu google group http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu its a great group, and Eric Hammond created one of the best images i have seen yet. the original image was only ~100MB in size. Eric has done
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by jdavid 19y ago
this is important, because anyone with any degree of genuine curiosity will have at least seen a tar file in the context of compression. if you use winrar, tar files are included in the open file list. with any sense of curiosity and intu
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by jdavid 19y ago
uhmmmm as a windows user, tars are all over the place if you look for them, but then, i might have found them as a hacker.
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Opp YC: AWS hacker in midwest
3 points by jdavid 19y ago|2 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
i almost bought a macbook pro for the screen. mac makes it easy for you to get a non glossy high def display. you can now even get LED backlit which should give brighter whites, better contrast, and longer backlight life. the rest of the
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by jdavid 19y ago
are you actually claiming that apple and sun have anything in common?
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by jdavid 19y ago
sounds like the offer is 6M-9M to put things in perspective. @ 10M and 3% you earn $300k a year in interest. @ 10M and a good money market you earn 8-12% or $800k-$1.2M a year. If you only spend 250k a year you will grow your money very fa
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by jdavid 19y ago
crazy awesome response post. i do however think that if dubai wanted to fix anything on the list, it would happen with dictators speed.
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by jdavid 19y ago
I know that, you know that, and i think Dubai knows that, but i am wondering if they might go after it as another point of pride. We finally decided to make the move to Silicon Valley, not because of the money, but because of the networking
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Ask YC: Dubai - future Startup Hub
2 points by jdavid 19y ago|14 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
lol, i don't think that was the reason, because the gay men would have been smiling too.
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by jdavid 19y ago
So we have been doing some exploring after another investor in the midwest told us to just move to the valley for the networking alone. he may be right. after a few visits, i can say that living in SF, and playing in SF is just fine withou
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by jdavid 19y ago
a link to the 2 bedroom? we are moving out in april/may and we are looking for a 2 bedroom.
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Ask YC: anyone on kluster.com?(kluster.com)
2 points by jdavid 19y ago|1 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
Social Helix(all 4 of us) will be there. We will be demoing and talking hopefully with all of you. Then tomorrow Jon and I fly out to SF for the google hackethon.
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by jdavid 19y ago
hey, great job on that funding round.
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by jdavid 19y ago
Milwaukee, WI - We will be at techcocktail 7, you should come find us. we want to meet people that like to work on fun projects.
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by jdavid 19y ago
Ok, now that i think about it. Maybe a chemical response is more effective. What about having a risk, recovery time. If you post, you can have karma at risk, if it gets a few negative responses, it can recover, but if it gets 3 or more, the
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Ask YC: Lessons of an entreprenuer
2 points by jdavid 19y ago|0 comments
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by jdavid 19y ago
what about posts costing you karma? maybe the post is 1 karma, and each link in the post is an additional karma point. if it is a post of value, then you should earn at least more than 1 karma to replace it. it makes your post an investment
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by jdavid 19y ago
central America/Chicago even though i live in milwaukee
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by jdavid 19y ago
i don't think he meant long term procrastination, but rather daily procrastination. if you stay in bed, then you may need more sleep in your week. once i wake up, any additional sleep is usually meaningless, i find a nap after lunch to be

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