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Welcome x 11
- davidw 11y agoDarn, I thought they were setting a trend in windowing systems away from Mac... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
- dantiberian 11y agoWhat's the purpose of the YC software team?
- sandslash 11y agoA lot of things! They're making some amazing software for applications and all the data that comes with it, internal tools for office hours and events, and ongoing improvements to our security and infrastructure, just to name a few things without going into too much detail. They're also there to listen to all of us complain about not having this-or-that feature :)
- andrewstuart2 11y agoHaha, I definitely thought this was going to be about investments in the X Window System, not 11 different people joining YC.
- thegigaraptor 11y agoI thought the exact same thing.
- ajarmst 11y agoYep. I was thinking "X11 again? Is X.Org forking?"
- taude 11y agohaaaa. me too.
- jhardcastle 11y agoWelcome * 11 instead, perhaps?
- evincarofautumn 11y agoWelcome × 11. There have been some developments in character sets since the 60s, not that you’d know from our programming languages.
- pmilot 11y agoSadly, there has been comparatively few developments in keyboard hardware and input schemes since the 60s.
- kuschku 11y agoHuh? On DE-International that is on [AltGr]+[Shift]+[,]: ×
- kalsk 11y agoThat doesn't look very different from the letter x though, I think I'd still prefer the asterisk even if there was a × button on my keyboard.
- teddyh 11y agoThere has been a × key on the normal PC keyboard since 1986, on the numeric keypad section.
- Coding_Cat 11y ago[citation needed] I'm looking at my 1992 Model M right now and it has just a "*", unless you count "+" as a lopsided "×".
- teddyh 11y ago
- dang 11y agoWe added a space to the title with a dismaying feeling that it would not be enough.
- cperciva 11y agoMy immediate reaction when I saw this on twitter: "YC is funding x11? But I thought it was Xorg now...".
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- ones_and_zeros 11y agoA few Loopt and ImagineK12 alum being brought in to the tent. What's the connection?
- birken 11y agoSam Altman was a co-founder and the CEO of Loopt
- jobowoo 11y agoYC and ImagineK12 merged (http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/y-combinator-absorbs-edtech-accelerator-imagine-k12-creating-specialized-vertical/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/y-combinator-absorbs-edtech...). Geoff is/was a partner at both YC and ImagineK12.
- ori_b 11y ago"Well, that's a funny way to spell X11"
- pcmaffey 11y agoDid YC research ever find someone for the universal income study?
- 1123581321 11y agoWill someone please explain what is an associate at YC compared to traditional firms?
- buechs 11y agoBrad has a more traditional Associate role since he's on a finance team (Continuity). I'm responsible for the day-to-day of the founders in the current batch and keep my finger on the pulse of our alumni community (in associate-speak, on our portfolio companies). There's very little financial modeling for me (thank god) and a lot of figuring out how to 1/ scale our resources and 2/ make our growing network feel connected.
- nodesocket 11y agoSince Sam has taken over at the helm, the expansion of YC including adding partners and employees has been dramatic. The YC website got an overhaul, added (the macro), created YC fellowship and Y Research. It seems like Sam's vision for YC is much larger than PG's was. While under PG, YC kept things small, specific, and focused. Don't get me wrong, I think Sam is doing an absolutely fantastic job. However there is a stark contrast in scale, speed, and vision.
- cperciva 11y agoI agree that there has been a big difference, but I think you may have cause and effect backwards. I was under the impression that PG handed over the reins largely because YC was growing and he wasn't interested in running a large organization.
- mathattack 11y agoYes - Sam was hired to scale it.
- nhebb 11y ago"Chris Clark [...] was Mayor of Mountain View.View" Is that a typo or a file name? Hmmm, I might just add "Creator of the Universe.txt" to my resume.
- ChrisArgyle 11y agoMaybe its a cross product? If we assume "Welcome" is a 2x1 matrix and "11" is shorthand for [1 1]
- Matetricks 11y agoCongrats to all the IK12 folks! Can't wait to see more of your amazing work as part of YC.
- vmorgulis 11y agoI'd like to have more details about YC research and YC software.
- mavsman 11y agoCongrats to Tom Brady on venturing into the VC world!
- bitwize 11y agoI was like "Welcome X11? You mean there's someone at YC who hasn't boarded the Wayland hypetrain?"
- hkmurakami 11y agoI had two contrasting reactions/thoughts. The first was that these additions seem excellent and that YC will be much more capable and robust by virtue of them. The second was a reflection on the criticism written against VC in the press for investing in "their buddies' companies" (ex: a16z partners investing in their friends' --who are experienced entrepreneurs with big visions-- companies) and whether we will see a narrative in the future against the common practice of VC firms hiring what can be seen from the outside as "their friends". (personally I think the practice makes sense since you've often worked with them before and know their character and abilities)
- throwaway1214 11y agoConfusing or misleading titles aside, YC has made literally billions of dollars off of free software and the under- or unpaid labor that produces it. They absolutely should be patronizing free software projects, perhaps not X11/X.org/Wayland, but certainly outfits like the Debian, OpenBSD, or FreeBSD foundations that make their startups possible. Instead of laughing at ourselves for having misread a title as suggesting that YC might actually contribute something back, we should be publicly shaming them for not doing so and being an open source free-rider.
- bifrost 11y agoHi, I'm Tom, one of the folks joining. I actually work a fair amount with FreeBSD and its surrounding organizations and have helped several projects get financial backing including paying for code updates. You can look forward to more updates as time goes on :)