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I don't get that from reddit or people I know in real life.
I'm going to apply to YC S18. I didn't get in last year but I'm only 28 and I have worked on every area of my life over the last year and feel ready to try again.
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As _dang_ mentioned, not sure which one you're referring to? That said, it is doing well and keeps growing. Hit 55k total subscribers this month.
https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/newsletter/ http://ycombinator.us7.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=6507bf4e... Those are the ones I'm referring to. But I'm glad to see there's still some growth on this! I'll definitely subscribe and look into it.
I found out about Y Combinator through HN in 2007. The big thing I learned from PG's essays and the links on HN were that I could start a company myself, and that there were lots of smart people like me who had done it and were going to do it. It gave me the confidence to quit and start working on something. The next year I applied and got in with my startup Posterous. We built that to a Top 250 Quantcast site, and T…
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I just wish I could choose to see what was removed, somehow. Do you feel that'd impede on your experience, that being possible? Genuine question.
In your profile, there is a choice called "showdead". If you set that to yes, you see those comments.
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In your profile, there is a choice called "showdead". If you set that to yes, you see those comments.
Shadowbanned is not the same as downvoted/dead, unless I've missed something.
There's such a thing as deleting a comment, in which case it's no longer visible even with showdead turned on. But only the author can do that. Software never does it, and we never do it unless the author asks us to.
Silly, but some self assurance. I'm mostly anonymous here, so my job history / pedigree doesn't weigh into anything. But, I still manage to be in the middle of meaningful discussion, and contribute something worthwhile here and there. Even got a few thank-you notes over a 2 year period. Tldr: Helps with imposter syndrome.
I am a hobby programmer. I spend quite a lot of time doing programming challenges (Euler, cryptopals, advent of code) and amateur robotics.
Most of the programmers I meet are a result of a shorter non-CS education focusing on getting them employable, which means they know .net and not much more.
So far I have only met one person in real life that understood anything of what I am doing, even though I have met several people that make a living coding.
Hadn't it been for HN I would believe that undergrad maths from old schoolbooks is actually advanced programming or that moderately advanced scheme macros are dark magic :)
Being here is somewhat good for my hubris, but also pretty often makes me realise I could have a career doing programming if my current line of work doesn't work out.
skytorrents.in. Arguably life changing.