larrys

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1981.
by larrys 14y ago
The more you do things like that the idea becomes balkanized and you move further from your intention which is nice, simple, easy to remember and understand.
1982.
by larrys 14y ago
"And then you can frame it and do all sorts of other creative/cutesy stuff." Restaurants do that frequently with their first sale. (Cynically: The other $$ end up in their pockets, untaxed).
1983.
by larrys 14y ago
"Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Paul Buchheit, Ron Conway, Ronny Conway, Chris Dixon, Ben Horowitz, Ash Patel, Geoff Ralston, Joshua Schachter, Harj Taggar, Albert Wenger, and Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this." So we can assume that the
1984.
by larrys 14y ago
"They used to be my goto publisher. " Tim Oreilly is distracted and is missing the hunger of the early years. This happens to most people when they age and if it doesn't it's the exception. It also happens to businesses as well. They become
1985.
by larrys 14y ago
OP makes valid points but there is value to having your "ticket punched" by a major publisher vs. self publishing. That may change but it still has value today. It's not all about money or how many are sold. Being vetted and accepted by a m
1986.
by larrys 14y ago
"For the last month, I've been analyzing jokes from different comedians, looking for the root of why they're funny." Don't forget to take into account the skill, voice, tone, cadence and delivery of the joke. The same exact words said by di
1987.
by larrys 14y ago
"I look at Clerky as kind of a stim pack for the company-lawyer relationship" If clerky is good and allows lawyers to focus on charging for the things they are good at while avoiding things that they make little money at then you should att
1988.
by larrys 14y ago
"That advantage is compounded when it's the structure that happens to be used by a whole bunch of YC companies, since YC has a lot of experience pounding corporations into a shape that is acceptable for next funding rounds." There is nothin
1989.
by larrys 14y ago
"law is simply too big and complex to be reduced to simple recurring steps in any important area. " Agree. I'm not a lawyer and I have no relatives that are lawyers, and nothing to gain by raining on the clerky parade at all. That said I've
1990.
by larrys 14y ago
"But what would a good measure be?" I think it's important to realize in answering that question a few things. a) The answer to the question isn't digital (black and white) it's analog. It's a matter of degree and relative to the thing bein
1991.
by larrys 14y ago
Except for one thing. The "dude" with the movie page could be someone who fully intends to actually sell the domain when the right buyer comes along. People already do this type of thing. Put up a "kinda sorta page" that looks and quacks li
1992.
by larrys 14y ago
"domain squatter behavior is damaging to those that would make beneficial use of the domain name space." How would you propose to determine beneficial use of a domain name? For example let's say the domain "pifflesnort.com" was taken by som
1993.
by larrys 14y ago
"The point is not to have ONE company own and control an extension (like .com) and all the domains in it." This has already happened. Afilias controls .info. Public Interest Registry controls .org. (Afilias actually runs the backend operati
1994.
by larrys 14y ago
You are talking about "domain tasting". It was closed because it wasn't good for the registry operators (once again Verisign in the case of .com and .net). That said there is a cost. A registrar needs to keep money on deposit with the regis
1995.
by larrys 14y ago
"In short, domains are being bought up and not used, and the commons is ruined." How are "the commons" ruined? Domains (as a business) has been going on since domains were available and some people recognized they would have value and bough
1996.
by larrys 14y ago
"I would love to give something back to you but I am not sure what that should be." I would worry about creating an obligation that would require you to have anxiety and other issues by not being able to fulfill the obligation. While it's n
1997.
by larrys 14y ago
"We can be old geezers together" Not only that but it's like Nero is fiddling while Rome burns. North Korea is building up an arsenal to strike the US. And our best and brightest are solving big problems like this.
1998.
by larrys 14y ago
Thanks. Which usb graphic card do you use and are you happy with it?
1999.
by larrys 14y ago
"A few power users will complain, but most won’t care: by that time, most former Mac Pro customers will have already switched away." This is a statement that is general and without any basis at all. Where does the OP come off writing "most
2000.
by larrys 14y ago
On your plans: "What happens if I go over my plan? If you go over your plan by 20%, we simply charge you for the next tier for that month only. We'll then revert you back to your the plan you last selected." Very nice but the general idea w
2001.
by larrys 14y ago
"She's a young aspiring writer living" Which makes you wonder what parts are true in the story and what parts are enhanced for dramatic effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey NYT also has a similar piece weekly called "Modern Lov
2002.
by larrys 14y ago
"getting a response that's designed to get you to stop complaining from a false sense of achievement" I'm also sure they bend over backward to find a reason to agree with something just so they can say they are agreeing with some petitions
2003.
by larrys 14y ago
"you'd know that opening that dialog is frequently the hardest step." How true and essentially the value of "connections" I would add. They get the person (you are "selling" to) to at least listen to what you have to say and consider it and
2004.
by larrys 14y ago
"Yes, they were a fairly recent invention and will probably be gone soon." What do you mean by "recent"? They have existed for perhaps more than 100 years and before that there wasn't the type of work where they were needed and so they didn
2005.
by larrys 14y ago
"As a customer you should care that their service is geographically distributed" Don't agree. If you own the data center you have more control over it. We had a case where the UPS systems in a data center had bad batteries and equipment wen
2006.
by larrys 14y ago
What do you mean "of course it's a team" because "uptime is a fundamental part of their business"? That's an assumption on your part. Many negative events happen because of assumptions people make and things they take for granted. I ask a v
2007.
by larrys 14y ago
The question remains how many people actually are monitoring the network in order to call the first responders. Is it one person, two or five? And my use of "not impressive" was in reply to someone who said "impressive" but more importantly
2008.
by larrys 14y ago
It's not an issue of whether they can get backup or not. (And I don't agree with that anyway a night guard can call 911 and get the police pretty quick.) The issue is whether there is a single person monitoring the network or several or eve
2009.
by larrys 14y ago
"The small team" Didn't see this when I posted my comment. So there is a team monitoring not a single person?
2010.
by larrys 14y ago
But this is not impressive: "Someone from our operations team is monitoring our network 24/7." "Someone" seems to indicate "1 person". Not "people are monitoring" but "someone". That's it, one person monitors the network? Like the single ni

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