TheMakeA

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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   One issue that I have seen is that many people will confuse anything more than slapping together code and checking it in as "premature optimization." Many of the same people believe that the value of their code scales proportionately with i
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   Well, I certainly hope pg isn't putting the non-needles into an incinerator like Jamie...
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   Zapier sends him a notification of course... ;)
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   Thanks for the heads up.
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   That's definitely something I have considered and may well end up doing. I just haven't started moving in that direction yet.
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   I think in particular, I would/could have benefited more from the increased number of opportunities for free time and flexibility: * No longer have seasonal breaks outside of the odd vacation time. * Can't cram work into only a couple days
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   Could you transfer to a college in Silicon Valley instead?
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   Part of the allure of YC for me is the promise of being able to work on my company full time. I don't currently have any other means to do so. I am going to build my company no matter what, but YC would offer means to drastically speed it a
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   by TheMakeA 14y ago

   In my early 20s. Dropped out of college to get "real world experience." In retrospect, the thought of having blocks of free time to pursue whatever I want is very appealing. For now I am stuck doing 40+ hour workweeks and trying to cram sid
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    Thanks!
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    Interesting, thank you. Was that after they had already invited you out?
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    I do wonder what percentage of people drop or pivot due to a YC rejection. It seems weird to me that not continuing would be the norm.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    The proximity sensor hack is delightfully ingenious.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    Thanks, that makes sense.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    I haven't heard much about the Skype pre-interview. Does anyone know more about that? Are they common?
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    I believe that all of our signups came from outside of HN.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    "grand - Version Control that Scales" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471989 There was no real response from the Show HN but we generated a decent amount of interest. We haven't reached our beta yet, but we decided to apply to YC so
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    There is so little room on the application as it is to try to sell yourself and your cofounder (not your idea) that I could honestly not even imagine wasting it. But in my case, I don't have a fancy school to list in the founder question, s
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    > I ate 20 hot dogs in one sitting. Wow, does this really happen? I wonder what percentage of applications have obviously bad answers like this.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    The suspense is already unbearable enough as it is.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    I have to imagine that the system is something like this: 1. Each partner has a queue of pending applications that have changes or have yet to be seen. 2. Each application shows a simple diff between the last time this partner saw it and no
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    This looks pretty sweet. Good job.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    The article does mention a $30k car (and loceng kindly pointed it out as well). I look forward to hearing more about it.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    Probably not when their cars start at $50,000. I would really love for it to happen though. But perhaps I am just poor.
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    > I guess you're using some sort of Bittorrent-like distribution scheme to download large files in the background? That's the idea! > And also perhaps support for truncated history like shallow clones in git, so a 1 GB movie file th
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    by TheMakeA 14y ago

    Hey all. We are professional game developers who got tired of the state of version control for game development. Git and Hg just don't work really well for our needs. SVN and Perforce lack the distributed bits that make Git and Hg so awesom
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    Show HN: grand - Version Control that Scales(grand.io)

    3 points by TheMakeA 14y ago|3 comments