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Hard to use that to say he's not a great person to work with. The LA accelerator might have been egregious, and he may be doing a service to other entrepreneurs by publicizing it (…

But there may be a larger market to hire people who know how to use the tools they design.

Sure, but let's have that debate, and set down a philosophy around that. What you're arguing is not that Java is everything - but that a polyglot stack has dangers, that certain to…

I thought about that as well. I think it may be defensiveness and anger - rather than a logical statement. Those feelings are natural, so I don't fault him - but at the same time, …

Posted this on his comment form: Karthik, disclosure, I was a YC founder. It doesn’t seem very thoughtful to say never pay more than 3%, full stop. If you get more than 3% value ou…

Agreed, it's crazy that there are engineers in this world that can make blanket statements like this, especially on a site like HN. There are a lot of great languages/frameworks, a…