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by larrys 13y ago
All of your history is essentially correct. I owned a company in this business in the early 80's (started it right out of college btw.) We bought the first linotronic ($80k, driven by a Mac running Pagemaker 1.0) in our city so essenti
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by larrys 13y ago
"Sounds like a phototypesetter:" You are correct. I owned one type - Itek Quadritek (another was Compugraphic). The fonts were essentially plastic disks. At the time (early 80's) each font was $40 (80's) dollars. I later
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by larrys 13y ago
"it's newsworthy because it's Sean Parker" Newsworthy to Techcrunch? Anything related to a "celeb" in this business to Techcrunch would be newsworthy. But I would say this would be of interest even to the WSJ
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by larrys 13y ago
On that page all I'm getting is text: "Pricing Tour Support Sign up Login" No links. View source code shows html though. This is on ffox latest and safari latest.
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by larrys 13y ago
I didn't read it. My reaction was to the statement which I replied to. I would take that either as a summary of the document or your conclusion on the document. Is it necessary to only comment after a full reading and understanding of
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by larrys 13y ago
"It’s currently owned by someone named “denis bider”, who presumably just likes to domain-squat on other people’s product names and provide links. " Another slam against squatters as usual. I really really wish people would stop w
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by larrys 13y ago
That is about as helpful as telling people that they can't trust food that they didn't grow themselves. Has no relevance in the modern world where unfortunately you can't easily grow your own food. In other words pick your po
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by larrys 13y ago
"Systematic hard work can get you results in academia. From what I understand about show-biz, it requires a lot more than just talent and hard work." Agree (in that what you are saying makes sense. I don't have unfortunately
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by larrys 13y ago
"While there are lots of tactics, there is no one true silver bullet. " I'm old enough to have worked with Coldwell Banker when they rolled out their commercial real estate operations on the East Coast (they had been only a w
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by larrys 13y ago
I've seen that but just took another look. No doubt they should have the dates on the pages otherwise it's hard to get the full effect.
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by larrys 13y ago
This is the type of post that appears on HN from time to time that reminds me of the days in the 50's and 60's when college students apparently would compete to write to Dear Abby with a story believable enough to get published. [
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by larrys 13y ago
"Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly
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by larrys 13y ago
This is a typical article that everyone here will feast on. Another of a long list of "the answer to your problems" to make people who are in a rut feel better about themselves. For the last time "work" and the amount of
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by larrys 13y ago
"The fact that you unnecessarily called Schneiers current occupation as 'sad', imo, tends to support this rationalisation." Let me give you the perspective of someone who is outside the security business but knows a good
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by larrys 13y ago
Yeah exactly. It's a nuance thing. Hard to give a one size fits all for this. But by saying "I have some time open on X" you force the other person to say "that's no good how about y" at which point, assuming y
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by larrys 13y ago
"Create artificial urgency by compressing your meetings." Urgency. Yes. The above stands out as being true from my experience in any type of negotiation at all. It's the opposite of the "time kills all deals". Ever
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by larrys 13y ago
"And don't waste money (as an early startup) on filing for trademark protection - because US trademark law respects common law use (ie, if you used it first, you are protected, even if you didn't file for protection). Registe
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by larrys 13y ago
I agree with that thought. In fact at times I have purchased OEM hard drives through the Apple store instead of on Amazon. My theory being that a manufacturer would (and this is important) be more likely to send their "A" produc
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by larrys 13y ago
I wondering how many people on HN own a Tesla? HN appears to have true love for any story surrounding Tesla.
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by larrys 13y ago
Not a question but a suggestion. At this type of pricing (1% - seems very inexpensive) you should be selling into larger property owners. Such as condo associations where you pitch it as a controlled way for the association to make money an
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by larrys 13y ago
"However, they struggle to organize cleaning, keys, change of linens etc." Sounds like something that YC backed homejoy could get involved in solving. That's my keiretsu of the day. [1] https://www.homejoy.com&#x2F
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by larrys 13y ago
Just verified that this is not the case with dns records done through the domain manager at mediatemple.net May be the case elsewhere (just no time right now to test this). I would have started this reply by saying "not true" but
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by larrys 13y ago
Check the firewall settings.
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by larrys 13y ago
"The way I decide which one to write is that one starts to write itself in my head." As someone who only comments in two places on the web (HN and at another place that I'd rather not mention) that is exactly how it works wh
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by larrys 13y ago
"Books in the pipeline?" An opinion column in a well respected publication has the ability to wield more influence. Books are hit or miss and ephemeral.
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by larrys 13y ago
"Now I'll be able to focus most of my attention on writing again." Sounds to me as if you have bigger ambitions in that area than just writing essays.
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by larrys 13y ago
Will also add that (for lack of a better way to put it and sorry if this offends) "penis envy". That is reading about the money that is made by others and their success and also seeing how others in the group react to that success
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by larrys 13y ago
Another vote here for Ally. Been using them for years. Pick up the phones right away; website works well; easy transfers and the interest rates paid on deposit products are decent. Additionally when your cd's expire they kick an extra
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by larrys 13y ago
"the man turned down 6 figure offers" I'm in this business. It's quite common to claim things like that. And being offered a sum of money and actually closing a deal are two different things anyway. That said they did ge
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by larrys 13y ago
"even when there were better offers from domain flippers during the time" It's quite common in the domain business to claim that you have offers that you have turned down. I would take that with a grain of salt. By the way wh

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