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After the Deadline Acquired by Auttomatic

30 points by moses1400 17y ago

rms 17y ago
cross link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811860 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811860
jeremymims 17y ago
I think PG would be the first to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that while being accepted to YC is a strong indicator of future success, a much stronger indicator is relentless drive and determination. This is clearly a case of the latter. Congratulations!
okeumeni 17y ago
"Better Spealing" need After The Deadline (http://afterthedeadline.com/ http://afterthedeadline.com/). Congrats Guys, being rejected by YC is not a curse.
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singlow 17y ago
So, now the spelling and style checker has a name that looks like a typo? [edit] OK, it looks like it _is_ a typo. Automattic is misspelled incorrectly in this thread. And no, that is not redundant.
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  - PStamatiou 17y ago
    he was referring to the actual typo in the headline: "Auttomatic" instead of the correct "Automattic", he wasn't talking about why it had two t's in general
  - raffi 17y ago
    One of the things we're doing is downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary. Trying to keep up on some of these Web 2.0 names/terms. A tool like AtD isn't meant to be a portable websters / virtual grammar nut--it's meant to act as an automated set of eyes and help you spot errors that you didn't intend to make.
    - wlievens 17y ago
      "...downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary." That's awesome. Tools like MS Word have vocabularies that somehow seem devoid of any geek terminology. Your tools fixes that. Cool.
lucifer 17y ago
"I’m thankful we had that interview though and was encouraged to make the first cut." (check grammar: http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp) What ever happened to eat your own dog food?

30 points by moses1400 17y ago

rms 17y ago

cross link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811860 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811860

I think PG would be the first to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that while being accepted to YC is a strong indicator of future success, a much stronger indicator is relentless drive and determination. This is clearly a case of the latter. Congratulations!

okeumeni 17y ago

"Better Spealing" need After The Deadline (http://afterthedeadline.com/ http://afterthedeadline.com/). Congrats Guys, being rejected by YC is not a curse.

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singlow 17y ago

So, now the spelling and style checker has a name that looks like a typo? [edit] OK, it looks like it _is_ a typo. Automattic is misspelled incorrectly in this thread. And no, that is not redundant.

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- PStamatiou 17y ago
  he was referring to the actual typo in the headline: "Auttomatic" instead of the correct "Automattic", he wasn't talking about why it had two t's in general
- raffi 17y ago
  One of the things we're doing is downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary. Trying to keep up on some of these Web 2.0 names/terms. A tool like AtD isn't meant to be a portable websters / virtual grammar nut--it's meant to act as an automated set of eyes and help you spot errors that you didn't intend to make.
  - wlievens 17y ago
    "...downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary." That's awesome. Tools like MS Word have vocabularies that somehow seem devoid of any geek terminology. Your tools fixes that. Cool.

lucifer 17y ago

"I’m thankful we had that interview though and was encouraged to make the first cut." (check grammar: http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp) What ever happened to eat your own dog food?