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by larrys 12y ago
It's a good advertisement for Marc and it serves a marketing purpose of continuing to get him media exposure which is good and keeps him on the radar of entrepreneurs and other VC's and burnishes his image more in the media. So h
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by larrys 12y ago
I got bogged down the other day with 29 somewhat long emails in one day back and forth for a negotiating project that I took on for a VC firm who I've dealt with before. Handholding and explaing to all parties on issues that weren&#x2
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by larrys 12y ago
I know they charge by time I was wondering what the typical charges are that are linked to emails. For example if you email a question to your attorney and he emails back a 1 paragraph or 1 sentence response does that show up in billing as
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by larrys 12y ago
This is a truly impressive undertaking. However I wonder if there could potentially exist some trademark infringement on YC (regardless of whether they care or would even pursue any potential infringement.) Part of the logo colors are simil
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Ask HN: What do startups pay business attorneys for emails?
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by larrys 12y ago
"One of the problems with being poor is that you might not be able to afford lawyers to contest a suit over a non-compete. " But even if you have money that doesn't mean it makes economic sense to pay for an attorney's t
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by larrys 12y ago
Would add another dimension to car vs. smoke alarms. [1] Smoke alarms are loud and typically near you (think about the one that goes off in the kitchen because of burning pizza in the oven). So you have to react or you are paralyzed. You fa
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by larrys 12y ago
It was really cool and fun even though a simple green terminal screen. I had one in front of me and one in back of me. The one in back was typically logged in as root. (Was an office with a lock and a small enough place that I didn't h
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by larrys 12y ago
" The goal is to make something people want, not to impress YC." As they say "agree in part deny in part". One of the advantages perhaps is not so much impressing YC. It's not tripping any alarms that say "this
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by larrys 12y ago
One of the women, Lorinda Cherry raced rally cars as a hobby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry Here's an interview with her that I just dug up: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike&#x
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by larrys 12y ago
I owned an AT&T 3b2/400 multi user system in 1985 running Unix System V. Came with a bound set of loose leaf manuals (might have been about 10 of them iirc). [1] I learned pretty much everything I needed from those manuals. https:
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by larrys 12y ago
The put in a tremendous amount of effort and it paid off in the end. However reading this I was thinking "what if they put the same dedication and effort into doing a more traditional business endeavor. Kind of in the same way when yo
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by larrys 12y ago
Where did I say or why did you get the impression that I was "complaining"?
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by larrys 12y ago
On a new Porsche 911 (had two of them recently) snow tires cost me $1800 [1] (it actually does a nice job in the snow with them) and the first oil change was something like $400 or so at the dealer. I sold the second one recently (got a Por
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by larrys 12y ago
I want someone to explain HN's obsession with anything Tesla related. Is it the technology, the disruption or just Elon Musk's involvement? I understand articles appear that get upvoted I'm just wondering why this type of new
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by larrys 12y ago
"This implies that you're able to take a description of what software should do, implement it in code, have that code actually work at accomplishing the objective, and deliver it in a fashion instantly consumable to your clients.
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by larrys 12y ago
Well first there is more than printing there is distribution and paper cost, power etc but I'm guessing you are wrapping that all into "printing facility" anyway. But here's the thing. Printing is somewhat efficient if y
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by larrys 12y ago
" The same is true of the philosophy and Italian studies departments" If I may ask what kind of job can one get graduating with those degrees that will pay for the massive tuition bill? What is the expected pay for having a degree
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by larrys 12y ago
"Do you also consider rolling up the windows to be intrusion?" Yes definitely. Really no different than if you would want someone to enter your house to close your windows. Now you might say "well what if it can be done from
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by larrys 12y ago
Article should be flagged as "2012" in the title.
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by larrys 12y ago
"could some benevolent person use the bug to cause remote systems to run something like " That's not benevolent that's intrusion. Nobody has the right to take it upon themselves to determine what someone else should be d
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by larrys 12y ago
Very interesting. It might be an idea to do some post mortems on the failed drives. [1] Why not take apart some failed drives and see what you can find out as to why they failed vs. ones that did not. Perhaps info that might be of interest
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by larrys 12y ago
So for example if you don't run web servers that are front facing on the internet (and you trust your (for example) intranet) then does this become an "asap" rather than a "drop everything"? "is potentially an
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by larrys 12y ago
"If you are responsible for the security of any system, this is your immediate, drop-everything priority." Why don't you explain in plain english exactly why you feel this is the case? "Drop-everything" in other wor
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by larrys 12y ago
A good question that so far nobody has answered (as of right now).
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by larrys 12y ago
I think that looks good but I have to tell you that the idea of committing data to what appears to be one person who could get "hit by a bus" worries me. I'd like to see on sites like that some kind of continuity plan. Unless
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by larrys 12y ago
Question (not a statement). Doesn't encrypting the drive also prevent you from recovering some of the information on the disk by way of drive recovery utilities? So for example you might want to encrypt something super sensitive (which
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by larrys 12y ago
Would be interesting to see a post on what your burn-in procedure is.
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by larrys 12y ago
Question for the OP here (or for anyone else). Do you burn in new drives before using? I typically will take any new drive and do some type of stress test [1] on it for 18 to 24 hours to see if it fails with that initial constant use. [1] C
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by larrys 12y ago
"They're never replaced because regular consumers statistically don't ask for replacement and simply eat the loss?" There is another paradox as well. Some people won't ask for replacement because assuming you have t

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