imsteve

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by imsteve 19y ago
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
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by imsteve 19y ago
Indeed.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Oh I see, jealousy will solve all economic problems.
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by imsteve 19y ago
I did after the first two years.
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by imsteve 19y ago
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?
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by imsteve 19y ago
Didn't for several of my sisters, FYI.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Hah. That's an oddly specific match for our dilemma. Have you ever used it? I am at the same juncture now.
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by imsteve 19y ago
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 a
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by imsteve 19y ago
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
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by imsteve 19y ago
When an execution is as incredibly simple as hot or not -- that counts as part of the idea!!
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by imsteve 19y ago
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 ad
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by imsteve 19y ago
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
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by imsteve 19y ago
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.
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by imsteve 19y ago
More tough for some of us who are broke and have no car to do this all within one day.
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by imsteve 19y ago
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 i
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by imsteve 19y ago
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."
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by imsteve 19y ago
"halo effect."
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by imsteve 19y ago
....and still only half of it would be good advice.
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by imsteve 19y ago
> You may not write any data to the drive or disassemble the drive. What the heck?
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by imsteve 19y ago
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
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by imsteve 19y ago
My view is that startups aren't easy because there are no natural forces to guide you. Not customers, not markets, nothing. All can mislead. And I've become distrustful of one line advice.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Just what I was about to say.
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by imsteve 19y ago
> Get a travel visa and a sham marriage. It's difficult for me to say that I support this but immigration regulations are so rediculous and I have seen this technique used very successfully several times so I must say that I agree. This
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by imsteve 19y ago
They say it's for creating the company. In most forms of incorporation you need to put down an address. I ran into the same problem.
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by imsteve 19y ago
The less you exercise, the less your body needs to recover. So you can balance your health and sleep time depending on your goals.
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by imsteve 19y ago
I'm actually trying to make lists of the best programming music now. First, I'm collecting databases of all the music I can find. The electronic genres are the most elusive... I have a database listing about 16MM tracks and mixes now. Once
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by imsteve 19y ago
The internet radio stations I listen to for programming music require each mix (song) to be between 45 and 90 minutes, not fade or do other distracting effects, and a couple other basic rules that make it quite good for programming.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Seconded.
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by imsteve 19y ago
Bet they'll still arrest you for using it...
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by imsteve 19y ago
TC commentors are a//holes. Well I think this is a decent product. This problem area has definitely been in need of a decent solution.

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