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Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:14AM (#17808866)
The deserving 4,000 startups are not getting a devalued experience. They will still have an advisor in groups of 25 startups. The remaining ~11,000 won't have an advisor (at least not yet).

And innovators always make mistakes. YC has actually admitted to being "always slightly broken" https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/14/y-combinator-is-zeroing-in...

Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:13AM (#17807934)
I went to bed after the false acceptance email and had a beautiful sleep! Woke to the kinda bad news and then the acceptance but no advisor email. What a roller coaster!
Re:Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:01AM (#17807882)
I'm sure some future unicorns from Team 2nd chance will have a super awesome story to tell in 10 years.

Thanks YC (and the bug) for considering to support us. Giving everyone a chance is actually a YC-ish move.

Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:41AM (#17566716)
Apparently, you can update your application before the deadline, Aug 13th.
Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system on Monday April 02, 2012 @07:22AM (#3787486)
Did anyone regularly using OSX, Windows and/or Linux vote OSX just because it was listed first?
Re:Poll: Where do you work (geographically)? on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:23AM (#2147423)
Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa
Re:Poll: Where do you work (physically)? on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:19AM (#2147413)
Day-job work at office; Part-time startup work at home without a distinct office. Since day-job has more hours/day, i voted "An office (not a home)"
Re:How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours o... on Friday November 19, 2010 @09:23AM (#1921444)
On the other had, you don't have to listen to the podcasts in one session or one day.
Re:Can Africa produce a Google, Facebook or Microsoft? on Monday April 28, 2008 @10:49AM (#175655)
I don't think hunger and war are a major problem to hackers actually. I thik war-tone countries are a minority in Africa and only affect rural people who are a majority and obviously non-hackers. I'm a hacker in Malawi and have never experienced war or hunger but that's because I'm a minority living in city.

Internet connection yes. Most hackers in Africa have internet access at work only where they work on custom enterprise software or general IT (non-programming) jobs and have to code hacker-interesting stuff off-line at home (if they have a computer) or evenings and weekends at work.

Re:Can Africa produce a Google, Facebook or Microsoft? on Monday April 28, 2008 @10:34AM (#175646)
I think it's possible and more likely so in a niche specific to developing countries like Malaria/HIV software, low-bandwith solutions, etc.

Otherwise it's much easier to produce a 37signals, just like everywhere else, I guess.

Disclaimer: I'm an African in Africa. In my day-job, I work for a non-profit developing a Rails application for managing delivery for HIV medication (baobabhealth.org)

Re:Ask YC: What are you working on right now? on Wednesday April 02, 2008 @03:15AM (#152865)
Polishing up my Facebook Cross Number Puzzle app http://apps.facebook.com/xnumber_puzzle before submitting to FB App Directory
Re:How to Disagree on Saturday March 29, 2008 @05:15AM (#149327)
Impressed to see that no-one here is suggesting a Disagreement Hierarchy: DHH.

And no I didn't.