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by pg 13y ago
Strangely enough, a lot of the most successful startups we've funded applied at the last minute. E.g. David Rusenko of Weebly told me he applied 30 min before the deadline.
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by pg 13y ago
Has "Lisp hacker" also developed separately as a phrasal noun? "Unix hacker?" "C Hacker?" The term "hack" extends to sloppy implementation. I wrote about that here: http://paulgraham.com
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by pg 13y ago
If you take a look at the HN jobs page, you'll see that's not true. Of the companies looking for "hackers" one is doing document signing and the other is writing healthcare software.
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by pg 13y ago
I'm embarrassed to see such nonsense coming from a company we funded. A hacker is not intrinsically someone who throws things together to see if they'll work. The phrase "kernel hacker," for example, doesn't mean
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by pg 13y ago
The output of the flamewar detector isn't binary.
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by pg 13y ago
In your case because you participated in a lot of apparent voting rings. But as it says in the guidelines, http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html if you have a question like this, email us instead of posting on the sit
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by pg 13y ago
Actually Amir's company is still operating. But even if it weren't, you'd be mistaken. People who fail have some of the most valuable insights. I learned YC's motto "Make something people want" from failing
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by pg 13y ago
Please stop this, both of you.
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by pg 13y ago
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (It's especially unnecessary when replying to someone who already understands the point you're making.)
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by pg 13y ago
They're talking about these people's origins, not their current wealth.
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by pg 13y ago
I know nothing about it.
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by pg 13y ago
I apologize to the world for this thread. There are clearly topics that an open forum, or at least this one, can't be trusted with, and this seems to be one of them. We have some ideas for new moderation features that we hope will mak
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by pg 13y ago
It's not a bug. The submitter deleted it.
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by pg 13y ago
Yeah, it is a problem. Sorry. I should remind myself not to do it when I'm giving talks or being interviewed.
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by pg 13y ago
The reason they want to be free is to work on what they want. If someone starts a nonprofit that they expect to be their life's work, they've achieved the same result (though perhaps with a bit more risk).
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by pg 13y ago
Sure there is. Imagine telling a child "your drawings are very clumsy; they don't look at all like what they're drawings of," or telling a very old person "you're probably going to die soon." Mean-spirite
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by pg 13y ago
Can you give an example of a specific sentence or passage in the essay that you believe is false?
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by pg 13y ago
Is there a specific sentence or passage in the essay that you feel is false and would like to refute? That would be more convincing than mere accusations of isms you feel the author is guilty of.
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by pg 13y ago
It's only ever the best stories currently in memory, which after a server restart like just happened tends to be only the past few days' worth.
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by pg 13y ago
What a mean-spirited thing to say, and to upvote. It makes me sad to see this kind of snark as the top comment on HN threads.
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by pg 13y ago
Good point. It probably is.
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by pg 13y ago
"belief in gift and natural born ability is toxic to all, and by eliminating it, we won’t alienate so many from technology" There is certainly some inborn variation between people. Anyone with children is aware of it. Two childr
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by pg 13y ago
Please don't sign your comments. ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
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by pg 13y ago
Incidentally, if this article were accurate, it would have been short and boring. We opened an office in SF because a lot of the people who work for YC live there.
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by pg 13y ago
"I haven't read the book" That could be a useful prelude to writing about it.
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by pg 13y ago
All other things being equal, yes.
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by pg 13y ago
As someone in the business of measuring aptitude, I can tell you with some confidence that it is. (If it weren't, we could save ourselves weeks of effort each batch reading applications and doing interviews, and instead just choose ra
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Pocket watch(erikkwakkel.tumblr.com)
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by pg 13y ago
This is misleading, because exits are such a lagging indicator. The really big exits take the best part of a decade now.
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by pg 13y ago
Though it's still a bit early to say, it looks like the probability of a YC startup ending up worth a billion dollars is at least .5%. So the truth is somewhere on the continuum between (a) that you're off by a factor of 5000, an

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