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Do these people not see how easy they have it? I am pretty sure no one would hire me at Mozilla with just php experience then get an interview with y-combinato

Do these people not see how easy they have it? I am pretty sure no one would hire me at Mozilla with just php experience then get an interview with y-combinator without a product. I'm guessing he went to Stanford or some other Ivy League.

bobbles 12y ago
He went to http://www.rit.edu/ http://www.rit.edu/ but I'm not sure where that fits on your exclusivity scale
- azinman2 12y ago
  Random side story: when I toured there when I was 18, my tour guide was severely depressed and told me not to go there. Before showing up we got pulled into a gas station and quickly left when we realized it was being robbed. I never attended so I can't say if this is indicative or not of the school in general, but it's funny how much these first impressions completely changed my decision to apply!
  - gkoberger 12y ago
    I loved RIT, although a lot of people there really succumb to Seasonal Affective Disorder thanks to all the snow and cold. The RIT I know is a bit more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHcIQgQnkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHcIQgQnkU
- mechanical_fish 12y ago
  Quite a few RIT grads have come through my employer's engineering teams. There seems to be, or have been, a program there in "network engineering" or something, which places a big emphasis on practical systems architecture and debugging. Its grads emerge full of stories about how hard it is to assemble and debug all the physical interconnects between the network switches in the server racks that you have to assemble before you graduate. You want these people on your team.
patio11 12y ago
Some people complain about privilege while others are out there putting in the hours. One gets to pick which group they belong to. He picked wisely.
- dpeterson 12y ago
  Ha, talk to me when you are 34, have a CS undergrad, a Master in Software Engineering, spent every second of your life programming since 19 and have been working on your startup for over 7 years, then get rejected flat out from y-combinator.
  - imrehg 12y ago
    So what have you learned from that? (genuinely asking, and besides the privilege bit)
  - pm 12y ago
    Okay. Time does not equate to quality. Credentials do not equate to mastery. If shit's not working out for you, you're either ahead of your time or it's a shitty idea. Either way, the only person in control of your life is yourself.
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  - btilly 12y ago
    Here is what I just heard from you. I've done a lot of stuff that I think should give me what I want, and I don't have it yet. The world must be biased against me. You just said that to a guy who managed to succeed in startups despite living in Japan, having an insane day job, AND whose CS credentials don't match yours. In short on every measure that you think matters, you're ahead of him. Except that he succeeded. Now you have a choice. One choice is to continue moaning. The other is to start with articles he wrote like http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-business-on-5-hours-a-week/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busin... and see if you can figure out what actually matters instead of what you think should matter.
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bobbles 12y ago

He went to http://www.rit.edu/ http://www.rit.edu/ but I'm not sure where that fits on your exclusivity scale

azinman2 12y ago
Random side story: when I toured there when I was 18, my tour guide was severely depressed and told me not to go there. Before showing up we got pulled into a gas station and quickly left when we realized it was being robbed. I never attended so I can't say if this is indicative or not of the school in general, but it's funny how much these first impressions completely changed my decision to apply!
- gkoberger 12y ago
  I loved RIT, although a lot of people there really succumb to Seasonal Affective Disorder thanks to all the snow and cold. The RIT I know is a bit more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHcIQgQnkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHcIQgQnkU
mechanical_fish 12y ago
Quite a few RIT grads have come through my employer's engineering teams. There seems to be, or have been, a program there in "network engineering" or something, which places a big emphasis on practical systems architecture and debugging. Its grads emerge full of stories about how hard it is to assemble and debug all the physical interconnects between the network switches in the server racks that you have to assemble before you graduate. You want these people on your team.

patio11 12y ago

Some people complain about privilege while others are out there putting in the hours. One gets to pick which group they belong to. He picked wisely.

dpeterson 12y ago
Ha, talk to me when you are 34, have a CS undergrad, a Master in Software Engineering, spent every second of your life programming since 19 and have been working on your startup for over 7 years, then get rejected flat out from y-combinator.
- imrehg 12y ago
  So what have you learned from that? (genuinely asking, and besides the privilege bit)
- pm 12y ago
  Okay. Time does not equate to quality. Credentials do not equate to mastery. If shit's not working out for you, you're either ahead of your time or it's a shitty idea. Either way, the only person in control of your life is yourself.
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- btilly 12y ago
  Here is what I just heard from you. I've done a lot of stuff that I think should give me what I want, and I don't have it yet. The world must be biased against me. You just said that to a guy who managed to succeed in startups despite living in Japan, having an insane day job, AND whose CS credentials don't match yours. In short on every measure that you think matters, you're ahead of him. Except that he succeeded. Now you have a choice. One choice is to continue moaning. The other is to start with articles he wrote like http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-business-on-5-hours-a-week/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busin... and see if you can figure out what actually matters instead of what you think should matter.
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