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I wonder if all the rejection e-mails had the same text. Mine started with "We're sorry" and ended with "Y Combinator Staff" and has the following MD5: f459a7
by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
I wonder if all the rejection e-mails had the same text.
Mine started with "We're sorry" and ended with "Y Combinator Staff" and has the following MD5: f459a7d636ac85cdcd680b135bcfc521
Edit: easy multi-line md5 here: http://www.webhost.org/widgets/md5encrypter http://www.webhost.org/widgets/md5encrypter
- nanexcool 18y agoYep, same MD5 here.
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- Zev 18y agoThats the MD5 we got as well with the website. Oddly, when I did `echo "We're sorry … Y Combinator Staff" | md5`, I got a different sum (f807496243cc18b53929b313c410f64a). //edit: The website seems to strip out blank lines, while echoing it doesn't. Solves that (trivially minor) issue I suppose.
- kevinherron 18y agoTry `echo -n ...`
- cperciva 18y agoI'd be shocked if the emails weren't all identical -- even if it only took five minutes to compose each email, that would be a week of work. And after all, for 99% of applications there's really no need to say anything different. For the 1% where some extra explanation is useful, they can send separate emails later.
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoI was thinking there might be a few strata of e-mails... like "sorry" then "sooo close" then maybe a "waitlist" e-mail if some other group drops out.
- davidw 18y agoA waitlist would imply that people were basically good enough, whereas pg has always said that if they like a group, they'll take them - it's not as if there is a number of accepted groups that is set in stone.
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoWow, fine, whatever. Then use your god damn imagination as to what the strata could be. My point is that they could have prepared more than one type of rejection e-mail. That's the significant thing I'm adding to the discussion, so please respond to that, rather than trying to disprove some other minor point I'm not even trying to make. If I sound like I'm pissed, it's because I am. This happens all the fucking time on HN, and the snarky replies are the ones that get upvoted.
- davidw 18y agoI wasn't trying to be snarky. They apparently feel that "you didn't get in" is all that needs to be said.
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoI apologize.
- dthakur 18y agoOT: Did it bother anyone else that the site calling it an "MD5 Encrypter" with the "Encrypt Data" button and all. Where is the decrypter?