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Please don't assume the OP is male or not solving technical challenges. She's a YC founder recently profiled in a technical magazine (PCB Design - see: http://w

• bsder 10y ago
  > Please don't assume the OP is male or not solving technical challenges. She's a YC founder recently profiled in a technical magazine (PCB Design - see: http://www.iconnect007.com/index.php/article/100587/ http://www.iconnect007.com/index.php/article/100587/). 1) Press coverage does not automatically imply either vision or competency. See: Theranos. 2) Do not assume that I do not have the bonafides to critique properly just because I am willing to have my rudeness pointed out. I've probably been fighting with EDA tools longer than she has been alive. And I ran a group which had a budget of more than $70 million for EDA tools. I assure you I have very strong opinions about EDA tools that are backed up by very hard won experience. And one of the many of those opinions is that not once did any engineer with experience ever say "Gee, we really need somebody else to manage our parts or footprints." TO A PERSON they all said "We'll do it. Anybody else will screw it up." So, quite certainly, I have enough vision of the field to deem it "not a technical challenge". You can feel free to disagree, but you're going to have to bring some experience or data to convince me. And, in case you think I'm being unfair, I can assure you that I ripped several layers of upper managers at Altium a new one for buying Octopart instead of fixing their tool.