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901.
by ced 20y ago
Interesting concept, but Yikes, is their site low on details. "working remotely and independently" "Let us know your funding / salary requirements" "with help of an offshore engineering team" I think that having a "guild" of some sort, to
902.
by ced 20y ago
IDEs don't matter much for beginners. I'd say: use whatever you can get working in the shortest time, and start coding. IDLE (shipped with Python) or text editor + interpreter are the two prime contenders for that.
903.
by ced 20y ago
I had a flash from biology while reading this: they say that two specie can never occupy the exact same biological niche. One of them will always have a higher growth rate, which will drive the other to extinction. If that applies to busine
904.
by ced 20y ago
Maybe, but I can read 10X faster than I can produce material to teach it.
905.
by ced 20y ago
It's silly to focus on your rejection like that. Create a self-assembled group of startup founders if you will, but don't define it in a negative way.
906.
by ced 20y ago
"It may be true that no programmer with any sense would work for him". Why? Did he do anything particular?
907.
by ced 20y ago
While I think he makes some good recommendations, his listing of "Advanced algebra" under "High school" makes me think he might not have gone that deep down the math rabbit hole.
908.
by ced 20y ago
Apart from possibly Ken, none of them compares IMO to the Princeton list, not by a long-shot. I often wonder why there seems to be less scientific genius around, and there are three options: 1. Problems these days require teams (meh) 2. The
909.
by ced 20y ago
I only read the historical part, and I got caught by this line: "Nevertheless Alonzo had regular contacts with other Princeton inhabitants. Among them were Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and Kurt Godel." Wow. Where can you find that today?
910.
by ced 20y ago
I think it's strange that "Bayesian Theory" has become a concept. It's just one of many formulas in probability theory. Yeah, it's particularly useful in many cases, but learning Bayes theorem without learning the rest is silly. Regardless,
911.
by ced 20y ago
"no binary drivers allowed, period" That's the only part in bold. Why is that such a big deal? I thought forbidding binary drivers was a hurdle for Linux.
912.
by ced 20y ago
Didn't you write something about it being quasi-impossible for a non-technical person to recognize a great hacker?
913.
by ced 20y ago
Yeah. The graph is pretty bad. 80% of it is filled with 3 null curves. And we need some comparison point with a better-known site to get some idea of how big a deal this is. And a log scale on the y-axis.
914.
by ced 20y ago
"if the difference between the 20th and 21st best players is less than the measurement error, you've still done that optimally." I thought that the coach was responsible for minimizing the measurement error. Then, the best he could do is to
915.
by ced 20y ago
I think that the distinction between the two kinds is rather artificial, from the applicant's perspective. Both involve estimators of your ability, be it your ability to take an exam, or your ability to write an application. Both are more-o
916.
by ced 20y ago
Platforms and languages should be orthogonal. They have become tied together because the glue provided by the OS sucks.
917.
by ced 20y ago
Is Java? Lisp? Granted, there are genuine "critical mass" effects for programming languages, but the same can be said to an extent of pop culture. If one of the reasons people listen to music is to have something to discuss with their frien
918.
by ced 20y ago
Question: is saving a few bucks each day by eating pizzas worth the decrease in health (and presumably concentration) that it brings? I used to bet that good food, good sleep and good exercise would work better for my exams than studying s
919.
by ced 20y ago
So all this talk about accepting "any team good enough" applies only for funding, and not the interviews? That would mean, incidentally, that anyone who was rejected this round might have been accepted in the last, or might be accepted in t
920.
by ced 20y ago
What is a shark?
921.
by ced 20y ago
"From a ragtag operation run out of sublet crash pads in Palo Alto, they now have two buildings (soon to be three) of cool gray offices" Cool gray offices?
922.
by ced 20y ago
How is it over there? I'd email you, but you have no email address in your profile.
923.
by ced 20y ago
A startup has a lot in common with a garage band making pop songs. I.e.: "A couple of young, talented people, working out of their garage, create a product in the hope that a big company will buy their effort, and make them a lot of money."
924.
by ced 20y ago
It brings back to mind pg's question: is multi-threading ever going to be abstracted out, and dealt with in the language implementation? I hope so. BTW, does anyone know of a startup using Haskell or Erlang?
925.
by ced 20y ago
Counterexample: Reddit was initially written in Lisp, and then rewritten in Python. For technical reasons.
926.
by ced 20y ago
What the author means, is that Python does not feel like Lisp. It's true, but it doesn't make Python any less able to support FP. I code strictly FP for my work (science does not have state), and Python suits me fine in that regard.
927.
by ced 20y ago
What project do you have in mind?
928.
by ced 20y ago
I thought that "discovered" was very ambiguous (was it intentional?) I wanted to write something offbeat, like, "The Dawson City mayor stole cable TV for all its citizens in 1996" or "DNA-polymerase can synthesize 10000 nucleotides/second"
929.
by ced 20y ago
I don't get it. If you (YC) choose not to fund a startup after the interview, it's because you think that you will not make money out of it. Why would TechStar fund them? They already tacitly acknowledge that they cannot do any better than
930.
by ced 20y ago
An anonymous study at the institute where I am revealed that 10% (IIRC) of scientists confessed to perpetrating a "serious misdemeanor". My feeling is that the situation is not much different now from, say, in the 18th century. Some day, we

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