Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG's Essays)

Re:Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG'... by HardyLeung on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:37PM (#2581275)

I studied these issues a lot (copyright, right of publicity, etc), and I think this particular use is fine. You are right that sometimes it is easy to figure out the text from the cloud, just like you can make out a famous photo from a very small 10x10 thumbnail, or draw Mona Lisa in 50 polygons http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolut... or as a single tweet http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/

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Re:Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG'... by peterarmstrong on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:45PM (#2581309)

It may or may not be fine, but my guess is that calling your Zazzle shop y-combinator is a bit much. Yes it's a generic term, but out of courtesy you should probably rename it to something like pgfan or something that indicates that you're not somehow "official"...

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Re:Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG'... by HardyLeung on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:50PM (#2581346)

This is actually the "Tagxedo" shop in Zazzle, and the category is called "Y Combinator".

The link goes to http://www.tagxedo.com/shop/y-combinator so this is also Tagxedo shop Y Combinator category. It's clearly stated that this is a tribute. I don't think I used language that is misleading, but I'll triple check.

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Re:Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG'... by leif on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @04:43PM (#2581555)

Oh I didn't mean that at all, it just brought up a question I thought was interesting.

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