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by larrys 12y ago
Which makes me think of a saying. One that I remember. "Sophia Loren without a nose is not Sophia Loren". Here's another one "if my grandmother had balls she'd be my grandfather". The point is PG wrote it so ju
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by larrys 12y ago
"What use is it to read all these books if I remember so little from them?" Well for one things it gives you pleasure. You could also say "what's the point of listening to music" or "what's the point of wa
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by larrys 12y ago
"The same book would get compiled differently at different points in your life. Which means it is very much worth reading important books multiple times. " I also find that this rings true with movies as well.
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"Is my electricity company being unfair because they offer discounts during low usage hours?" I agree with your point. Here though is how a typical person thinks from what I have found and observed. 1) It's ok to offer a disc
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by larrys 12y ago
"It's about making sure lawmakers understand your narrative." Agree. And what most people don't realize, that I have found out personally, [1] is that lawmakers (and/or their staff) are more than willing to listen t
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Video of the Week: The Bubble Question(avc.com)
7 points by larrys 12y ago|0 comments
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"can never be linked enough times" Off topic question here. Does an archive.org article get cached so that when it's linked to it comes up faster? Or does it display at the same speed of a random archive.org page? That page c
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by larrys 12y ago
"Oh, if only those merchants weren't so savvy. But the surrounding local tech boom certainly hadn't been lost on them. According to Mickiewicz, when he approached them to make a deal, they laughed, saying they'd expected
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Stalking That Dream.Com: True Tales from the Frontlines of the URL Wars(inc.com)
2 points by larrys 12y ago|1 comments
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Key to what you are saying (I agree) is that by starting to write something (even a shell script) you get instant feedback and reinforcement. If you are spending time understand a framework you don't get to that part as quickly. While
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Cancer’s Super-Survivors: How Immunotherapy Is Transforming Oncology(online.wsj.com)
75 points by larrys 12y ago|13 comments
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by larrys 12y ago
"I’m Glad I’m not a Touch-Typist." Have to disagree with this 100%. A touch typist can always hunt and peck if they want to or need to for some reason (would love to have a reason for this being a benefit though). Being able to to
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by larrys 12y ago
Thanks for that. Question though. The first book you listed (which got excellent amazon reviews as well) was published in 2008. Typically I've been biased into thinking that a book had to be somewhat recent. Obviously this isn't t
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by larrys 12y ago
Having literally deciding to learn java last week for no particular purpose other than having enough understanding to be able to comprehend our software (which is written primarily in java) and prevent brain deterioration, I'm encourag
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They should remove the privacy protection from whois and state on the site exactly who is behind it. Why should people trust the site and how do they know there isn't a hidden agenda in promoting certain providers? (This was a somewhat
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They are savvy but they don't know what they don't know.
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"I've stuck around in jobs because of the people when better ones were available." But is that really in your best interest? The way this is stated this is how it breaks down: - I have a better job opportunity (all things equ
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by larrys 12y ago
"The 20% fee seems ridiculously high." In one sense it is high but in another it's not. If you consider the amount of time it would take a typical contractor, say an electrician, to land a job if this comes in as more pre qua
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"Either way, I would steer clear of doing any business with Amazon, unless you are fine with the fact that you aren't building yourself a business. You are building up amazon's" The type of people that will use this (an
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by larrys 12y ago
I learned today what a jellybean part was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%E2%80%93Machine "cheap and multitudinous commodity parts, each with a processor, memory, and a fast communication interface" This remi
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by larrys 12y ago
"Two other bay area places that have changed a lot are Frys" One of my fondest memories when I was out in SV in the early 90's was Frys and Weird Stuff Warehouse. I think I first heard of WSW and Fry's in a book written
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" I would also devote a small section of each store to used/recycled/surplus stuff. " You are talking about something that sounds in a way like "Weird Stuff Warehouse" loved that store. http://www.we
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by larrys 12y ago
Nice bashing of a company fighting for their life. Point being it's easy if you are awash in profitability to do the right things, hire the best people in management, pay for the top consultants. [1] And of course give people massages
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by larrys 12y ago
Want to point out that this was Wharton a long time ago way before the Internet (we had the arpanet) and way before entrepreneurship became fashionable as it is today. I will further clarify what I said as well because it really relates to
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I'm not a programmer but I can "do some stuff" and that "stuff" has made money for me. I got involved early back in the days of teletypes and then green Dec VT100's. The whole idea of sitting in front of a term
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by larrys 12y ago
"Craigslist DNS redirected due to hacked registrar " Not correct. Registrar wasn't hacked their account at the particular registrar was compromised.
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"My guess is this is putting pressure on Whole Foods' growth strategy." Agree. And it will be interesting to see the exact product mix of that store is vs. the one that is located where I am. My guess (in addition to what the
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by larrys 12y ago
"an 18,000-square-foot Whole Foods." 18,000 is actually small for a supermarket and in fact the average Whole Foods is 38,000 square feet: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/w
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I think that's similar but different. In those communities what others think in the community is very important. As a result parents like nothing more than to "elevate" themselves by bragging about what their child has done.
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Agree but then doesn't that make it all relative? For example let's take someone that is a local judge. She/he is "high achieving" enough to go to law school and be elected or appointed a judge. But they want their

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