markm

Voted you up. Something else to consider when applying to Waterloo is the ridiculously high male to female ratio. If applying to Waterloo I'd recommend trying to take some shared credit courses with Wilfred Laurier students across the street.

(Not sure if CS and Eng allow that, you might have to complain a bit)

markm··on Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college?

This is a great rule regardless of working in a start-up.

markm··on How not to approach an investor

I still say it's a low class move to laugh at this guys expense.

markm··on How not to approach an investor

It takes a certain level of courage to ask someone for money. And whoever this is put on a false sense of bravado and yes he got burned. But it should also take some self restraint to not post this crap on your blog, especially if you're a VC.

markm··on Ask YC: Projects that inspire you

Seconded, I love wufoos design. I needed to set up a simple form for http://facebookcontest.com/contact.html and wufoo just flowed.

markm··on Ask YC: Projects that inspire you

I just spent 5 minutes of my life on http://littlegreatideas.com/willyou/index.php

A good one I found today was http://www.zoomii.ca

Sometimes if I've been working on facebook apps for a while I'll go back to my own site and smile.

markm··on Ask YC: Abandon my new corporate job to build my startup?

Facebook is one example where it was coded in undergrad, took off, and finally the founder switched to full time over the summer.

markm··on Y Combinator diaries

This is one the biggest PR scores you can achieve in Canada. The Globe and Mail is one of the most reputable newspapers in the region.

That said, I have personal antipathy towards this particular newspaper for some shoddy political pieces and I look forward to the day old media is transformed with social attributes.

markm··on IP

My two cents:

The days of bands with 100 million fans will be replaced with one hundred bands having 1 million fans each.

And a few bands will have 1 billion fans in a 'flattening the curve' type motion where a band's talent is reflected by their popularity.

markm··on I'm curious, Hackers, what do you think of the reddit redesign?

Agreed. At least buy readit.com as well.

markm··on Ask YC: Widget for allowing visitors to import Gmail Address Book?

Octazen.com

markm··on Y Combinator Ad

I just put an ad2.html at the end of the URL on a hunch.

markm··on Ask YC: When did you start having interesting ideas?

My interesting ideas in life always came when there were girls around I wanted to impress. As I get older, they come not so often. I read that the most inspired works of Romantic and Classical composers were all written before age 25 with a big exception being Beethoven's and Mozart's final symphonies. It's believed the inspiration behind those symphonies was brought on by the illnesses that killed them.

markm··on Y Combinator Ad

For kicks, a slightly darker orange: http://ycombinator.com/ad2.html

markm··on Ask HN: What are some good biographies to read?

These might not be biographies but they are good non fiction.

It's not about the bike, my journey back to life. - Lance Armstrong

Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman! - R. Feynman

Into thin air - J. Krakauer

markm··on [dead]

I think pg should let someone run Hacker News as their YC idea with the % equity for YC would being significantly increased. If the founder also released quarterly numbers and CPM rates we could all benefit from being part of the start-up in a meaningful way. This would achieve the intended benefit of allowing pg to focus more on the start-ups.

markm··on Ask YC : do you write your own blog? or you get help from someone else?

You've gotta work with what you got. If you don't try to hide the fact that it's a foreign written blog then people will be a lot more forgiving in regards to the grammar.

markm··on Ask YC: Where do you get international startup news?

Canada: http://www.startupnorth.ca/

markm··on Ask YC: Can anyone recommend a good startup lawyer?

This is why we need Search.YC. So much good, old information on the site falls into oblivion after two or three days.

[searchyc.com by chengmi and alaskamiller is a great tool]

markm··on Can we save posts on Hacker news ...

Upper right.

markm··on Reasons Why Video Comments Will Work

It's good to hear positive titles like that. Up voted.

markm··on YC startup looking for rockstar designer

Whenever I read about a stealth mode start-up I always have a 'omg they're doing the same thing we're doing' moment.

Does that happen to anyone else?

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