Building something like this has been my dream for the last 6 years or so. "Hacker Hostel" (That name is already taken, though). The "I'm an accentric billio

Building something like this has been my dream for the last 6 years or so. "Hacker Hostel" (That name is already taken, though). The "I'm an accentric billionaire" fantasy of mine is basically to build this, except to run it as an invite-only non-profit. Makes me happy to hear that I'm not alone in this thinking :) (Because it does sound a bit like I'm wanting to build a hippie commune when I describe this to people). To expand on the fantasy a little bit: "To apply to hacker hostel, send us a puzzle, that's your application. It doesn't matter if you've never touched a computer before, or if you just finished your PhD. If you get accepted, you can come out and live here for 1 semester, during which time you're free to create whatever you want. We'll fund the supplies, we've got a workshop, just build, and share whatever knowledge you have with the other people that are here. If, while you're here, you build the next big thing, and are suddenly swimming in cash, good for you! We don't own your IP, although if you would donate to our trust, we'd really appreciate it." Personally, I see a problem with the current cycle of: go to school -> go to college -> get a job -> CAT PICTURES/Financial Services/Advertising! I hate that. If I have have the means, I plan on breaking it. And stuff I'm doing now: I keep a server that doesn't get any of my personal projects on it. Any time one of my friends posts to facebook or tells me that they want to learn to program computers, or that they have an idea they want to do, I give them an account on the box, and offer to build it with them, or to teach them python [the language that I know]. (Now I'm ranting, it's the tea I had for lunch, I think). It makes me really sad that I can sit here and look at this computer with an almost total understanding of what is happening with it, and how to make it do whatever I want, and that the majority of my friends can't. We [programmers] are all supermen. I've noticed that in the last year, a lot of us are trying really hard to give that gift to everybody else (code academy, khan academy, etc.), and that really makes me happy :).