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haha.... it is like my CS professor. We had to submit our programming assignments before midnight, and if it was more than a minute late, we would get a 0. N
by ardit33 19y ago
haha.... it is like my CS professor. We had to submit our programming assignments before midnight, and if it was more than a minute late, we would get a 0. Needless to say that 90% of people waited until last minute to submit, and his little server will crash often (and you would hear screams from students not being able to submit). Programmers are some of the bigest procrastinators, ever.
So, he decided to give 4 points bonus if somebody submited at least 24hrs before. That actually worked, as more people started submiting earlier.
So, pg, maybe you need to give some incentives, or at least look at earlier sumissions more favoribly.
- pg 19y agoPeople who apply early do have an advantage, because we read their applications and sometimes suggest changes that would improve their chances.
- pmjordan 19y agoAlso, if you only get 2-3 submissions/day early on, those submissions might stick in the YCers' minds for longer. I suspect even the best attempt at giving all submissions a fair review doesn't quite work out if you've got hundreds of submissions to go through in a week. It doesn't sound like it's an instant decision. (with that in mind, expect my name to turn up in the first lot of winter applications)
- edw519 19y ago"maybe you need to give some incentives" Am I the only one who noticed how bizarre that statement is? If you need incentives to apply to YC, maybe you shouldn't apply. AFAIC, if you don't make it in time for this or anything else, tough. (Don't mean to sound so harsh, but welcome to the reality of the business world. Hitting tonight's deadline is probably the easiest thing you'll have to do in the next 6 months.)
- randallsquared 19y agoI think they meant "incentive to not apply late" rather than "incentive to apply at all".
- edw519 19y agoSo did I.
- jackdied 19y agoAnd that reminds me of my CS professors who used file timestamps to determine if you submitted by midnight. The TAs were the ones who checked the assignments and they got around to it .. eventually. Clever man that he was the prof gimped the "touch" binary on that system to accept no arguments. Sadly for him Stevens includes source for a simple touch program in "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment"