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imr··on Ask HN: Review my startup, FleshEatingZipper
Is the name a reference to something? I must be getting old.
imr··on 20 Million-Dollar Businesses You've Never Heard Of
Last one is impressive. At $7000 a day the guy only has to work 143 days to reach a million per year.
imr··on Will.i.am named Intel's director of creative innovation
This is not a good reaction to missing the mobile CPU market.
imr··on Oldest surviving BBC site
It does have its advantages like a fast load time. You won't find many modern news sites without the social media clutter.
imr··on Five IC makers join $3B 'capex club'
TI may be scaling back due to the costs of keeping up. It would not be unexpected for them to go fabless. The thinking is that 3 organizations will continue manufacturing logic chips: Intel, TSMC, and GlobalFoundries.
imr··on Vischeck simulates what an image/website looks like to a color blind person
Interesting idea, but the website feature appears to not work with links.
imr··on To Attract the Next Google, New York City Seeks to Create an Engineering School
What is RPI?
imr··on Complain about bad drivers by license plate
Kind of like zapatag.com

Both could use some help in the design department.

imr··on Ask PG: No queries to winter YC 2011 applicants?
I don't know the answer, but I am right there with you. Solidarity!

I submitted days or weeks before the deadline and have not heard anything.

imr··on How I Snuck Into The Ivy League. And You Can Too.
Columbia has lots of ways to enroll. I did the 3+2 engineering program, and I was far from Ivy League material when I left high school.
imr··on If Apple Spun Off The Mac Business, It Would Be #110 On The Fortune 500
It is an interesting stat, but who would spin it off with that kind of growth? It would cut into their vertical integration since people still do work on desktop computers.
imr··on Why the obsession with EXIT strategies?
>Microsoft, Oracle, or Google

All IPOs, which are getting scarce. Certainly some founders are kept around for a long period of time, but if you never take investor money, who is going to force you out?

imr··on Why the obsession with EXIT strategies?
If investors are obsessed about it, entrepreneurs have to at least have an interest in exit strategies, and one picked out to placate their potential investors.

Don't take investor money if you want to work on one company for your entire career.

imr··on Confessions of a Used-Book Salesman
It is perfectly respectable to make the market more efficient, but elements of the marketplace (the elderly man and "No electronic devices allowed" sign) make him feel bad about it.
imr··on Sick PCs should be banned from the net says Microsoft
What would be really great is if the companies responsible (i.e. Operating System and desktop software vendors) for bad code were required to foot the bill of quarantine and clean up.
imr··on Debit cards replacing credit cards on college campuses
This scheme is very confusing for someone who used loan money to pay tuition directly. Why not just get a debit card from your bank or credit union? Is there some sort of barrier to entry, besides minimum deposits, that I do not know about?
imr··on Wife-beating and slavery were once acceptable: How will the future judge us?
The major changes you mention are from 40+ years ago. Social security is only played with when there is a funding problem on the horizon. I don't see what is changing for the better.
imr··on Wife-beating and slavery were once acceptable: How will the future judge us?
These are things that should change, however future generations will only judge us on the ones that progressive politicians are able to legislate away. The rest will be just as normal for future generations.

The good money is on environmental change. There are already tax incentives and other programs for that. How society treats both the young (education) and old (retirement and end of life decisions) will never change.

imr··on What 'Waiting For Superman' Got Wrong
The author of this article gets it wrong. The movie does not glorify lotteries, where students are chosen at random for a better publicly funded school. The audience wants all the featured students to get into the charter schools. Their dreams are discussed and their parents shown putting in work to get them into the lottery.

Another sad fact is that there are lotteries at all. We really need to be asking ourselves why our tax dollars are being used to promote a system where parents and students feel that they have to be one of the lucky ones.

imr··on Ask HN:Who's Looking For a Cofounder? (October 2010 Edition)
I am looking for someone to work on an online electronic design automation platform. A background in electrical engineering would be helpful.
imr··on Ask HN: Have any of you filed "$0" in your Tax return?
You need to consider capital gains and interest on bank accounts, so the form might not be all "$0".

Make sure you file your state income tax form, if your state does that.

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