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by larrys 11y ago
What I'd like to see is a "Show HN: I built a working core memory".
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by larrys 11y ago
With a Porsche Macan S (which has terrible gas mileage) I can see a noticeable difference whereby in cold weather temperature (doesn't auto idle much) vs. warm weather I see about 2 mpg difference in city driving. Haven't done any
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by larrys 11y ago
I don't disagree with what you are saying and I probably should have not used the word "definition" in that sentence. However the reason I used "definition" was because what comes to mind with SCOTUS and porn,[1] th
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by larrys 11y ago
The startup scene has it's own definition of startup. Some, but not necessarily all of the following apply: 1) Younger people 2) Educated (can be self taught) 3) College grads or dropped out of college to do a startup 4) Have more to g
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by larrys 11y ago
"But in industries with slim margins, you see more cutthroat behavior." Absolutely. Not to mention in business and industries which are being operated by typically older people who have families and are in fear of losing their job
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by larrys 11y ago
"As I've written before, one of the things that has surprised me most about startups is how few of the most successful founders are like that. Maybe successful people in other industries are; I don't know; but not startup fou
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by larrys 11y ago
Wish I could say but probably not a good idea to give out that info. It was an East Coast team though.
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by larrys 11y ago
I deal in this industry. It's not always about needing the money or not needing it. It about gambling that the that offer of 1 million actually could be 2 million. You'd be surprised at how even ordinary people think when they ge
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by larrys 11y ago
I actually sold a team domain to MLB. They didn't approach through Cahn (and the fact that his name appears is a PR coup for him) but through a corporate registrar iirc was CSC who does some name recovery for big brands.
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by larrys 11y ago
I think many people are missing perhaps the real issue with appearing on a list like this (even if wrongly accused so to speak). By appearing on the list you raise suspicions and those suspicions could very well cause someone (spouse, girlf
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by larrys 11y ago
The key point: "Network Solutions gave away perhaps hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names last year. They weren’t just offered for free; They were placed in customer accounts on an opt-out basis. "
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Verisign presses Network Solutions for details on .XYZ registrations(domainnamewire.com)
3 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
"and poor execution is why they don't" Luck and timing no doubt play a very important role in addition to simply poor execution. Also even excellent execution doesn't take into account how the market will respond to wha
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by larrys 11y ago
Yeah but actually would have been better if they had registered the domain some time ago,let it bake for some time, and then put up the shutdown page and watch as HN commenters questions but took them somewhat seriously.
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by larrys 11y ago
Could also be security cameras in addition to what others mentioned.
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by larrys 11y ago
Failing to see at $3 delivery charge how anyone can afford to do these deliveries with wear and tear on a car and so on.
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by larrys 11y ago
"look at all of the fancy marketing they've done" They are trying to be Apple even the design seems close to what Apple might do at least to my eye. The thing is Apple does this and gets business because there was a core of i
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by larrys 11y ago
They use 20 years and in the past I have heard that the average time for home ownership is typically 7 years. I don't know the true figure today (wasn't able to find it when I just searched) but for most people a 20 year payback i
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by larrys 11y ago
The above, even if true, ignores the fact that if you love what you do (whether it be business or programming) not working or being involved is simply not as nice a life for certain types of people. Working toward and earning what you event
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How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates (1999)(philip.greenspun.com)
58 points by larrys 11y ago|48 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Exactly. Also having that family meant he could take risks that others couldn't simply because he knew the family would bail him out (personally, not the company) if things didn't work out. About his family, at least according to
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by larrys 11y ago
Microsoft may have been bootstrapped (I will go with what you are saying without verifying) however it also had the backing and full faith and credit of a somewhat wealthy and connected family.
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by larrys 11y ago
Non issue to me. Typical media and security professionals hyperbole. I have car insurance for my Porsche . According to the list it's vulnerable. Chance of getting stolen? Quite small. If it does insurance pays in my case the full val
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Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?(quora.com)
4 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
A good question but keep in mind that in addition to the deletion it is a tape that is about 42 years old as well and has further degraded.
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by larrys 11y ago
"They spend so much time on it that they do not have time to govern effectively." Not really. A bit like saying "if I don't let my kid watch football they will have more time to study!". If they didn't spend ti
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by larrys 11y ago
Yeah but a great way publicity wise for the people featured that invested in the "underpriced" company to lift the stock price.
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by larrys 11y ago
"you realize that the things that were important to you when you were younger weren't that important after all." On the other hand nothing wrong with having aspirations and if people didn't have aspirations many things i
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Pope security measures excessive, some experts say(philly.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Also, this article says about Obama's father "His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya" which differs from what the wikipedia page says about his father "senior economic analyst in the Ministry of

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