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At the moment no. This was one dataset we used to get started but, we intend to incorporate data from Angel List and other sources as well.

I've found that a lot less people care what you develop something with than whether what you developed is something they want to use.

It would be much better if there were actually a discussion for each posted item.

Perhaps to play in vehicles?

Not if you're solving a problem you yourself have encountered. And, a cofounder can help with the difficulty in seeing the perspectives of others, although Asperger's Syndrome has more to do with difficulty in social interaction than being able to observe why something sucks and requires fixing.

Reusing great paperwork just makes sense.

This article reminds me that I've never even been asked if I graduated high school. Not having a college education has never been a problem for me either.

Tesla: Man Out of Time touches a bit on the race between Edison and Tesla. A very good book as well.

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

Excellent book. I've long since lost my copy, but I think I'll try to procure another today.

Correlation does not imply causation.

I very much doubt that the gaming of the poll was merely an exercise in autodidacticism.

Trevor Blackwell made the unicycle you attribute to Paul.

The traffic they send is not.

What is a Scrum Master?...

One could argue that propagating(copying) the content across disparate site removes the inconvenience of finding the original content while still not rewarding the creator of the work.

The first and largest obligation that Dropbox has is to their users, not to one of the many partnership emails they probably get constantly.

Really, your last sentence there is unnecessary.

This happened to me in early summer of 2007. I was actually at the airport to join another program when I followed my gut and took a chance with my Y Combinator application instead. I was subsequently interviewed and accepted, so it worked quite well for me. I would, however, encourage everyone to weigh their options before following their guts as in the end you may get no offers by taking a risk like I did.

Probably part of what prompted my decision was how much integrity this other program didn't have relative to Y Combinator (offering perks and having integrity are sometimes inversely proportional).

Principle probably doesn't come into play when the majority of people want to consume or share information in the form of text, video and imagery. Using Scribd or Youtube is very much a proof that people have found an easy way to share their information. It seems you're confusing "don't know how" with "aren't doing it while abiding by the principles they should have".

I agree with what you wrote yesterday concerning weights and measures. "Leave people to use what they want to use."

Can you click a button and make Google index new content on your site?

Do you use Google video search before you use Youtube?

Or a company might decide to try to solve the problem by gathering and indexing all of these documents so they are more accessible than if they were spattered over thousands of locations, unsearchable, and cost time and money to find.

I was a single founder in the summer '07 YC batch. I don't know why they selected me precisely, but having the ability to say, 'It's friggin Photoshop online' certainly didn't seem to hurt. I was also willing to bring on a co-founder (which I eventually did) after I'd built and launched (a process that took about two years working by myself and happened before I ever applied).

The goal is value. I guess... build something to build it, get it launched, and try to build value (because you believe you can, not because you think you can convince someone to believe you can). Building something to reach an artificial deadline is probably not the shortest path to creating real value.

I don't think the title should have a question mark given how much vitriol is in the article.

But it isn't Y Combinator...

19/20

I didn't choose the correct spelling of questionnaire.

I'm proud to say I got 20/20 the second time I took the quiz...

"The environment is much more geared towards the hotheaded youth. It's not that you have a few outliers that act immature that get kept in check: everybody is immature, and the outliers are the people who act mature."

My experience being a part of Y Combinator is that everyone is precisely the opposite, though my experience is limited them the people I've met directly a indirectly because of Y Combinator.