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Thank you for the thoughtful replies. I gather I need to (1) practice the art of diplomacy; and then (2) relocate. Probably wouldn't do to meet investors and still be overly brash!…

Saying things the right way in dealing with people is an art. I'm mostly around computers... kind of like a lawyer who comes home and then deals with his family by continuing the c…

> you're trolling, and its annoying. No. Objecting to platitudes isn't trolling. The statements most commonly described as "platitudes" are short proverbs and aphorisms which are i…

> Nobody asked. Actually that's how this whole debate got started -- I asked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52613 > because nobody is doing deals in Boston So in your opinion…

I appreciate that you mean well; it seems that you're advising people on how to do something you haven't done, however, which is the same situation as at the top of the thread. My …

> Show it to industry contacts. You need industry contacts first. Suggestions? > Take over the world. (Microsoft) "Left as an exercise for the reader."

> I respond to posts here with specific advice whenever there's a question I feel qualified to answer. You haven't explained how your start-up succeeded without YC. > seen Guy Kawa…

YC's value, as is repeated often, is in the advice and contacts. Finding 30 investors that will sit through your demo is something most developers don't know anything about. GGP is…

YC is a known strategy. If someone is suggesting an alternative approach, details would be useful. "You can do it too!" works better when they aren't telling you to pursue a differ…

Why don't you tell us how you did it? *cough* Virtualmin -- YC Winter 2007 *cough* Are you suggesting in retrospect that you'd have preferred a different strategy?

If you can get something together by Oct 11 for YC's deadline, you can be demoing to investors in March. http://ycombinator.com/w2008.html

http://lwn.net/Articles/66665/ http://lwn.net/Articles/66666/ Are all those sixes a coincidence? And the finale, "666" + "69" = CrAzY delicious! http://lwn.net/Articles/66669/

> Well, why not the daguerrotype? It doesn't update in real time. To go back to your Starcraft example, that is why Starcraft is a game, and the screenshots on the box are not. > w…

> I was not inspired enough to make it to the ten-minute mark. That's too bad. I personally found the second half quite interesting. > even more precious to hear him refer to the t…

A little background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil "Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system, the first print-to…

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.…

> It hasn't happened yet so acting like it's inevitable without giving a shred of reason why except people have been wrong in the past is unreasonable because "Reasonable men adapt…

http://www.stanford.edu/~blp/avl/ * Binary search trees * AVL trees * Red-black trees

> and I don't believe it. Yoda: "That is why you fail." See http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/38 Cf. heavier-than-air flying machines, walking on the Moon, the Internet, s…

Don't forget we're planning to bomb Pearl Harbor. Chinpokomon.

> Gabor's posts here have indicated that they're doing stuff with NLP NLP? Great, maybe it can make me get over my Luposlipophobia .

My school experience indicates that the career path that can be predicted for gifted youth at age 13 is: burnout . Hopefully things have improved since then.