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Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George
- brlewis 18y agoBorn at 04:44 on Saturday, 1/24. 8lbs. 10oz, according to April.
- JMiao 18y agoi was 8lbs 10 oz.
- dhouston 18y agocongrats pg and jessica! start teaching him python :)
- eugenejen 18y agoWhat! He should learn Arc. It is for the next 100 years designed by daddy.
- vaksel 18y agohow about starting with English?
- frisco 18y agoThat's a cool shift: asked his native language, he might have to think for a second between English vs Arc/CL/Python/so on for a second.
- kajecounterhack 18y agoWelcome to the world, Georgie! Man he's got the best choice of initials. GL for good luck, or GG for good game, haha. Watch, his first language is going to be leetspeek.
- jey 18y agoThey should teach him Lojban first! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_Hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_Hypothesis
- eyudkowsky 18y agoSapir-Whorf Hypothesis not taken all that seriously any more
- hs 18y agoi, for one, welcome our new li^H^H arc overlord
- staunch 18y agoCongratulations. Time to reset 'gg' and set the account aside: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gg http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gg
- ggruschow 18y agoHe should use a different name until he's old enough to understand what posting on the net means. Besides, gg is taken quickly on practically every site that it's allowed on. It's been that way since around 2000. The most annoying part is they're not all me anymore. The good news is that he has a whole TLD that's still pretty open http://nic.gg http://nic.gg The bad news is there's a generation of people that often think of G.G. Allin when they hear "GG".
- alexS 18y agoi'm really happy for you guys, this is great news!
- andreyf 18y agoCongrats! I'm also a new father - PG (and everyone else) could you share any general parenting advice, or give pointers to sources from which you seek advice on parenting? One I've found invaluable is Alfie Kohn - his ideas gave me insight into general psychology as well as child raising that I'd feel completely lost without.
- sgibat 18y agoThere've been a few of articles on here about it so I'm sure you've caught it already, but I'll just say: praise what the child does, not who they are. Praise a child for doing a good job or trying again after failure, not for being smart or gifted.
- conanite 18y agoFirstly, congratulations on your children. Secondly, congratulations on caring enough to read about how to parent well. Anything by Faber and Mazlish is well worth reading - and it resonates well with Alfie Kohn. Their work covers eliciting co-operation, alternatives to punishment, encouraging autonomy, dealing with feelings, and much else besides.
- Alex3917 18y agoRead both of these, and soon, since they describe things which become fixed after age three or so: Meaningful Differences In The Everyday Experiences Of Young American Children Emotional Intelligence There are other books you can read once the kid gets to school age, but I think these two are the most important for the cognitive and emotional development of the infant. edit: Kohn is also one of my all time favorite authors.
- andreyf 18y agoThanks! I'll get those ASAP.
- andreyf 18y agoSlightly related startup idea - if it were easier for you to embed Amazon affiliate links, you would have gotten ~$10 commission for that recommendation. If YC got a cut of $5, that would add up... The way things work now Google got it (because I copy-pasted your recommendations into my search box). In general, how easy could one make it for people to recommend products to each other, and split the commission between publisher, recommender, and facilitator?
- sachin 18y agocongrats pg and x! So exciting :)
- mick_m 18y agoAh, can you say "shotgun wedding"? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205918 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205918
- Eliezer 18y agoWell, it's too late now, but if there are any other parents out there, for God's sake give your kid a globally unique name. It's all one big namespace now. There are other Eliezer Yudkowskys out there, the poor bastards, and they'll spend the rest of their lives under my ugly Google shadow.
- yters 18y agoI kind of like sharing names with other people. Plus, names used to mean something about a person, and we all share some sort of qualities with other people. When everyone's completely unique, no one is.
- prakash 18y agoYC startups can point to whichever website PG + JL register. That kind of google karma will easily put George as the #1 George on any of the search engines. Now, if the YC companies are really creative, George will be the 1st result returned even if someone types in "Eliezer Yudkowsky" ;-)
- Eliezer 18y agoGood solution, I suppose. At least the first part. To be fair, I'll be first in line to congratulate PGJL on having not named their kid Jeeebo Graham just because the domain name was available. But I do advise prospective parents to think hard about what the child might think of the name when grown up. Sure, in one sense it would have been awesome, but I'm glad my mother didn't let my father actually name me Luke Skywalker Yudkowsky, Hari Seldon Yudkowsky, or Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan Yudkowsky. Or similarly: I was once at a science fiction convention, and I saw a young kid - maybe 8 or so - wearing a nametag that said "Vanyel". I walked up to him and said, "Excuse me, is Vanyel your real name?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you named after Vanyel Ashkevron?" He said, "Yes." And I said, "Awesome." Which, in a sense, it was - it definitely had a high coolness factor. But what I wanted to ask was, "Did your parents think at all about what sort of problems they might be volunteering their child for, by naming him after one of the most famous gay characters in all of fantasy fiction?" But I didn't ask, because I didn't know if they had explained that part to him yet. Names matter.
- tdavis 18y agoIs it George Graham (GG==Good Game) or George Livingston (GL==Good Luck)? I hope he enjoys our gift... take pictures! ;)
- kajecounterhack 18y agoLOL I just said the same thing -- probably GG, it's more BA
- tdavis 18y agoI was going to simply reply with "GG NO RE" but I didn't think anybody would get it :P
- dkd 18y agoI play dota so i totally get it ... ;-)
- helveticaman 18y agoI don't get it.
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- Hexstream 18y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gg%20no%20re http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gg%20no%20re
- dmpayton 18y agogeorgegraham.com is taken, whereas georgelivingston.com is available (but not for long?)
- pg 18y agoGG. I never thought what his initials would be, but those seem good ones.
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoWorld to George: System.out.println(GreetingsFactory.newInstance().createGreeting("Hello, George!")); George to World: (prn "Hello, World!")
- andrewljohnson 18y agoJava :(
- amix 18y agoCongratulations! I hope he grows up and becomes a great hacker (like his dad ;-)).
- robg 18y agoAny chance we can ooh and aah at a pic of the new family?
- ivankirigin 18y agoYay!
- speek 18y agoThat's really exciting! Congratulations Paul and Jessica. Take some time off :-D
- xenophanes 18y agoParenting advice: http://curi.us/archives/list_category/61 http://curi.us/archives/list_category/61 http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/ http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/
- tom 18y agoThree tips from a young dad: 1. Take photos and videos - lots. watch your white balance ... Seeing how much our boy has changed in his 8 months is amazing. 2. Work less. This is a hard one, but working a 4 day work week (or 6 ...) and devoting an entire day to just George time is the incredible. My Fridays with my boy are worth more than money / success / code. 3. Help out with those late night feedings - diaper, rocking, etc. It's amazing how good you'll get at changing diapers when totally asleep - oh, and um, yeah, make sure he's aiming down when you diaper him. Trust me on that one.
- danmatern 18y agoJames Penrice "A New Dad's Guide to Playing God".
- DocSavage 18y agoCongratulations on bringing into the world yet another of your collective creations :) This calls for Dancing Baby: http://dancing-baby.net/Baby/BabyMus1.htm http://dancing-baby.net/Baby/BabyMus1.htm (Since when did he get sunglasses?)
- JabavuAdams 18y agoIsn't it a bit gauche to post this kind of personal info to a news aggregator? I mean, I guess there's a YC community, but this site extends far beyond that.
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- lst 18y agoIs it really that natural to receive congrats from 99% of really unknown people? [Internets, where are you taking us to? (And do we really want this?)]
- sgrove 18y agoFor what it's worth, congratulations to the new parents. A joyous, if somewhat scary step.
- fizx 18y agoOff topic, but every time I see an ampersand and a semi-colon on the same line, I think mis-escaped HTML entity. Jessica?!?! That's not even close to an entity! Oh.... I see. Anyhow, congrats!
- grosales 18y agoAll the best to you Paul, your wife, and your beautiful new baby! show "Congratulations!"
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