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imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Why a School Banned Legos

What's your problem with property ownership? You want to make it so that if people actually work hard then everything gets taken from them anyway?

You're not talking about evening the score, you're talking about inhibiting people from ever getting ahead again.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Why a School Banned Legos

Indeed.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Why a School Banned Legos

Oh I see, jealousy will solve all economic problems.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Take that Harvard! Stanford drops tuition for students.

I did after the first two years.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Take that Harvard! Stanford drops tuition for students.

I don't know how much you paid for your school -- but with math like that I'm sure you paid too much.

But anyway, how the heck can you blame the kid if the parents are tight with their money?

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Take that Harvard! Stanford drops tuition for students.

Didn't for several of my sisters, FYI.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Finding a Website Designer

Hah. That's an oddly specific match for our dilemma. Have you ever used it?

I am at the same juncture now.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

I'm sorry if you don't understand how this relates to startups. It does.

I know of very few founders who didn't move to a new place for their startup. Understanding how the qualities of a region affect the prosperity of its companies will aide you greatly when weighing the costs and benefits of moving for your startup and where to move to.

Prior to what I have learned through HN, I may have moved back to Europe without giving it a second thought. Pull your head out of the compiler for a minute to see how location will affect your hacking career.

Reddit content is funny pictures, useless politics, inflammatory youtube, and misleading headlines. This is none of those.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Take that Harvard! Stanford drops tuition for students.

1. If your parents make 100k+ but don't want to spend it on your education, you're screwed.

2. If you're not a spoiled only child and your parents have to divide that money up then you're screwed.

#1 angers me especially. Parents I know don't do that anymore, especially when colleges rape us with such obscene tuitions while doing relatively little to improve the education.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Slam Dunk Startups?

When an execution is as incredibly simple as hot or not -- that counts as part of the idea!!

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Slam Dunk Startups?

You can't really call vastly different sites the same idea. This train wreck totally misses the "I would show this to my friends design" aspect of the idea:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010202080600/http://amihot.com/

And you've got to admit that the basic idea alone totally carried the hotornot site.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Slam Dunk Startups?

From what I can tell, those sites are totally different as far as first impressions. Plus, hotornot got the most brandable domain in the history of the internet.

edit: archive.org confirms it. You've got to be kidding me if you think those sites are remotely similar except for one tiny feature.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Slam Dunk Startups?

Damn, I was going to say hotornot, but you already did. There have been thousands of other startups though that have had first mover advantage work for them in a huge way.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)

More tough for some of us who are broke and have no car to do this all within one day.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Another YC "Clone": Launchbox Opens Applications

Hell yeah the more the merrier. There's no way tiny yc can support the huge number of capable people out there who's talents are going to waste. That's becoming more obvious every cycle.

Edit: unless they really screw it up and scare away investors. Still, I am impatient to see angel funding to less well-connected people expand at a higher rate. Even risks considered, I welcome the yc clones.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Girls & Math: How It Works

Engineers needed to know more math where I went to school.

I'm sure the mathematicians among us may disagree with my definition of "math."

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: Users don't like creative founders, right?

"halo effect."

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: 10 web trends that should die - article is from 2005 but could have been written today

....and still only half of it would be good advice.

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: The Great Zero Challenge

> You may not write any data to the drive or disassemble the drive.

What the heck?

imsteve | 18 years ago | on: The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

I'm not saying that you should ignore this data or not release early. I have though, have seen customers be very wrong. I'd say they tend to see only short term goals, not long term. At worst, your product will become a design by committee disaster.