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by jdavid 16y ago
I met with Greg this week for lunch. He seems like a really nice guy and Dropcam is up to some great stuff.
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by jdavid 16y ago
I was hopping that this would lead to us sending out plenty of extra-solar-system probes so we could perform more wacky measurements like the pioneer ones. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/vanishing-dimensio... I think the only q
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by jdavid 16y ago
a few reasons WebOS is not done yet. * pre 3 will be fast, really fast * touch-to-share WebOS enabled devices can touch and share files. * somehow drobox is tied into WebOS 3 * Unity Union - Unity Technologies will help you port your game.
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by jdavid 16y ago
If there is one thing apple is right about people won't buy tablets based on specs. I do think they will buy on features. I think the touchpad has a quad-core chip in it from qualcom.
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by jdavid 16y ago
i disagree with that. life insurance is not a very liquid asset. it does not fight inflation and you can not leverage it very well. i looked into it quite a bit in my 20's and it just didn't make sense. i think it creates risk, you have
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by jdavid 16y ago
i think buffets point is to find people within your lifetime to hand the money over to. i think the inheritance taxes he is seeking would limit giving money to people in old age as a lottery. [quote] "Well, I tell them a couple thin
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by jdavid 16y ago
This was a stark contrast from having worked at hi5 just prior where I had a killer Macbook Pro, and (2) 1080p 22" displays. Sometimes while visiting dropboxes offices in those days I remember them having (2-4) 27" displays. Just a differ
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by jdavid 16y ago
I live in soma and would love to find a place to hack. find me on twitter. @jdavid
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by jdavid 16y ago
As an ex-MySpace ID MDP employee we had staging servers. There were like 2 or 3 different levels of test, of course, that might have been unique to our team.
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by jdavid 16y ago
Sorry, for being overly creative. "free parking" is a spot on monopoly where the rules specifically state that once a user lands on the 'free parking' space no money is received. however, in almost every monopoly game i have played, player
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by jdavid 16y ago
I worked at MySpace on the MDP ( MySpace Developer Platform ) team. My team, MySpaceID, was the one that implemented Oauth 1, 2, 2.0a and all of the external REST libraries. We worked closely with the activity streams team and the OpenSoc
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by jdavid 16y ago
The problem is that privacy is no longer the default. So instead of having it, now you don't and you have to prove why you need it. I think that's kinda why the constitution set the default to innocent. Too bad we don't really see that as
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by jdavid 16y ago
In the case of an emergency like this. I would think that most 60hz devices could work on 50hz, and most 50hz devices would work on 60hz. things that would get screwed up are devices that use the signal to time events. some high voltage s
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Share HN: Japan Pay it Forward(jdavid.net)
1 points by jdavid 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdavid 16y ago
A map of checkins for Sendai, JP region. http://checkin.to/cities/1118129#!/location/4d7e6959a2db1b17...
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[Map] Mashup of Japan's Earthquake Timeline ( hundreds of quakes )(lat.ms)
2 points by jdavid 16y ago|1 comments
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A complete list of CrossDomain/ inter-window Javascript Projects(code.google.com)
1 points by jdavid 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdavid 16y ago
I think WebOS will be like Steam is on PCs or like the Apple App store is on Mac based computers. In this case the purchasing and updating of apps will be consistent and easy to maintain, however they will still run side by side Photoshop
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by jdavid 16y ago
There are a number of data points these days behind the social wall that will never have access to a crawler.
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CSS Rounded Corners in IE6+ without images via IE's CSS Behaviors
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by jdavid 16y ago
i would love to have and iPad or TouchPad as a second display.
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by jdavid 16y ago
I think Pandora will go back into heavy losses if they raise money. I love Pandora as a service, but it's a far cry from being a Netflix. ( a long time paying customer of both ) Pandora's revenue is threatened by so much, RIAA contracts,
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CSS-3 XML Namespaces in jQuery(rfk.id.au)
8 points by jdavid 16y ago|0 comments
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HP using webOS for 100 million PC/ Laptops next year(digitaltrends.com)
3 points by jdavid 16y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: use YQL to get reddit stats via jsonp(developer.yahoo.com)
2 points by jdavid 16y ago|0 comments
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by jdavid 16y ago
a friend who i trust recommended just using varchar(255) to represent all IDs. any other comments?
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Ask HN: Building the Ultimate Social Login Table
2 points by jdavid 16y ago|1 comments
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by jdavid 16y ago
it's still interesting and something most people may not know about.
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Google can index AJAX apps via HTML #Fragments(code.google.com)
11 points by jdavid 16y ago|2 comments
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Twitter uses BitTorrent to push code updates. 40min 12sec(engineering.twitter.com)
10 points by jdavid 16y ago|1 comments

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