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"If you don't have your priorities straight at times like these then you shouldn't be running a company." You have a good counter-point there. However, I belie

"If you don't have your priorities straight at times like these then you shouldn't be running a company." You have a good counter-point there. However, I believe you could have stated it clearly without the asshole remark. (S)he thinks it is resourceful that a candidate found a way to complete and submit an application under dire circumstances. Maybe using the neighbor car battery to power a laptop or something more crazy. You assume Grand OP is deliberately advocating risking life to submit a YC application. You could have disagreed without the name calling. If everyone branded a comment he disagrees with an "asshole" comment, I do not think here would be a pleasant place to discuss.

jacquesm 14y ago
> You assume Grand OP is deliberately advocating risking life to submit a YC application. No, I understand from the original that someone that is 'scrappy' enough to make their application reach YC under these circumstances would be allowed to jump the line at the expense of those hit hard enough that they can't make it. As if such behavior is something that is to be commended, and as if the reward should be that they make it while others do not. Deadlines are imaginary lines in the sand, they can be moved without penalty or further aggravation if the situation warrants it. YC seems to have the right idea here. Plenty of people will work really hard to make their submission as good as possible and will submit the final product at the last moment. Being without power or communications (possibly for days) in a region that is hit by a once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully) storm front means that obviously the rules of the game have temporarily changed. The NYC stock exchange seemed to have its priorities straight, I think some two bit unproven start-up should be able to live with the possibility of having to compete with a few more entries, especially when those fellows are in the middle of what now officially qualifies as a disaster area.

jacquesm 14y ago

> You assume Grand OP is deliberately advocating risking life to submit a YC application. No, I understand from the original that someone that is 'scrappy' enough to make their application reach YC under these circumstances would be allowed to jump the line at the expense of those hit hard enough that they can't make it. As if such behavior is something that is to be commended, and as if the reward should be that they make it while others do not. Deadlines are imaginary lines in the sand, they can be moved without penalty or further aggravation if the situation warrants it. YC seems to have the right idea here. Plenty of people will work really hard to make their submission as good as possible and will submit the final product at the last moment. Being without power or communications (possibly for days) in a region that is hit by a once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully) storm front means that obviously the rules of the game have temporarily changed. The NYC stock exchange seemed to have its priorities straight, I think some two bit unproven start-up should be able to live with the possibility of having to compete with a few more entries, especially when those fellows are in the middle of what now officially qualifies as a disaster area.