larrys

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by larrys 11y ago
Hey. I also hate being in the limelight. But if it's good for business I get over it and have. Just like I get over many things that I need to do in business to make it work. (I have cleaned toilets and done grunt work and still take o
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by larrys 11y ago
Well perhaps she learned a lesson that if you are going to "lead" with a tasty vignette like that the rest of your message will be lost. So it's a lesson learned, right? Next interview she would perhaps not do the same thing
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by larrys 11y ago
So you are saying that she figured that out after 1 bad interview and didn't know it about the press prior to hiring a PR firm?
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by larrys 11y ago
For a business purposes, part of the benefit of "that family thing" is that it would tend to make employees less likely to jump ship because of a personal connection and bond. This is also the reason why in business (the reverse
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by larrys 11y ago
"After that she told the PR firm to stop." Oh wow I disagree with this totally. One reporter gives a bad slant to a story and that is enough to make you give up on setting up and getting other PR? What am I missing here? Anyone wh
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by larrys 11y ago
To get past the paywall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
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The Rise of the College Crybullies(wsj.com)
30 points by larrys 11y ago|35 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
The issue is not liability. It's whether there is a leg to stand on to get sued for this. In this case there is a leg to stand on to get sued. And in that case it's time and money to defend, assuming insurance does not cover this
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by larrys 11y ago
"then their professional liability insurance would protect them from the fall-out of sloppy workmanship" Assumes the homeowner checks that the insurance for the professional is valid at the point the repair is made. Of course nobo
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by larrys 11y ago
Back in the early to mid 90's the root DNS servers were also left in unlocked rooms of some Universities according to stories that I read around that time. Also for .info domains when they first came out I happen to be at the headquar
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by larrys 11y ago
"What is the actual risk here, how many people have been bitten by this sort of thing and what was the resulting damage?" Exactly. And what I essentially typically say is "the scope of the problem has not been defined".
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by larrys 11y ago
I posted this and wanted to put the word "flawed" before "poll". Mainly because this got front page mention on the WSJ website but if you read how the poll was done it's clearly suspect in it's methodology.
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Donald Trump, Marco Rubio Won GOP Debate, Poll Finds(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|2 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
I actually don't like the sliders for that matter. I'd prefer side by side (especially because of the point that you are making).
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by larrys 11y ago
In case you miss the thread here at HN that mentions you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526572
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by larrys 11y ago
"just the ability needed to put together a shell pipeline to get a job done, or a twenty-line script to automate some tedious task. Imagine how much that would change everyday life." Well unfortunately like learning a foreign lang
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by larrys 11y ago
"who believe it is in their best interests to cultivate a populace with unquestioning deference to authority" The populace doesn't ask questions. They simply parrot what a few outspoken people with a mouthpiece tell them to d
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by larrys 11y ago
I can't figure out if you are being downvoted because you made a joke or because you used the word "torture" in vain.
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by larrys 11y ago
The quote I always seem to remember from that movie is: "New guy puking his guts out".
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by larrys 11y ago
Noting he was flagged 36 days ago. At what threshold does someone gets banned? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10297957
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by larrys 11y ago
Counter-point to your counter-point! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Vendor_Pre...
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by larrys 11y ago
Free to me doesn't matter. By one definition a vendor is a company that supplies goods. Some definitions go further to say that they "sell" the goods. However there is nothing to indicate in any definition of vendor that mone
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Meet the Lawyer Who's Putting Uber on Trial(wsj.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
I wonder what controls they have to prevent someone who gets dinged with bad ratings (as a landlord) from reposting the same exact property. After all it would be trivial to post with an address and unit "1705a" and then if a prob
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Nine billion company names(economist.com)
1 points by larrys 11y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Oh also the DNS wasn't resolving and we use google 8.8.8.8 DNS servers.
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by larrys 11y ago
It worked a bit later for me when I tried (maybe a half hour later) and it works now. (Nice photos!)
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by larrys 11y ago
Well the issue appears to be settled it was Aaron Cheung: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467925
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Why Is Rackspace Supporting Amazon Web Services?(blog.rackspace.com)
3 points by larrys 11y ago|1 comments
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by larrys 11y ago
Yeah I always forget that. Btw, dns for (aaronbrethorstphotography.com) in your profile isn't resolving.

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