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Your acceptance is based entirely on your idea (even though ideas are worth "nothing," heh) and your past projects. So learn some lisp to score brownie points a
by timg 19y ago
Your acceptance is based entirely on your idea (even though ideas are worth "nothing," heh) and your past projects. So learn some lisp to score brownie points and outsource a resume-filler project of your design to some cheep foreigners. You'll be ready to go.
As for hacking in general. The only way to learn is to create real programs. Books are a very small part of learning. I wouldn't recommend any.
Oh and don't tell the YC guys that you are hardly a hacker. They wont like that.
- SwellJoe 19y agoAs for not telling the YC guys...they'll notice. You won't have to tell them. Ideas don't matter (except to show that you're thinking hard about solving a real problem for someone). You want to have a working demo to show them.
- timg 19y agoheh. Was joking. Still, I think that toying around with other's code in order to make it do something new is an excellent and fun way to learn a new language. SwellJoe: Nice comment at the top of this page, most agreeable one here.
- litepost 19y agothe bogus elitism in this community is truly astounding, symptoms of a deeply-held inferiority complex
- SwellJoe 19y agoCould you clarify how that relates to the parent? (The parent was wrong on at least two counts, but not due to bogus elitism that I could detect.)
- litepost 19y ago"Oh and don't tell the YC guys that you are hardly a hacker. They wont like that." The definition of "hacker" is somewhat arbitrary but is nonetheless given inflated status by the majority of this community, it seems. (I could be mistaken, of course.)