Slipping a link into the headline to (presumably) your startup, even if it is inside a "// not related" comment, is pretty tacky. You might even call it spam.
Update: Thanks for removing the link.
PG on the cover of Forbes
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#12Slipping a link into the headline to (presumably) your startup, even if it is inside a "// not related" comment, is pretty tacky. You might even call it spam. Update: Thanks for removing the link.
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#13I've got to imagine any photographer trying for a YC photo would look at the Inc cover which reprised The Last Supper and just despair.
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#14♫ I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine, smiling next to Oprah and Paul Graham. ♫ Heh.
Congratulations, pg. If nothing else, being on the cover of Forbes must put a smile on your face.
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#15That cover is awesome. Congrats pg!
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#17And an earlier occasion:
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#18"Y Combinator--a computer term for a program that runs other programs" Heh... completely wrong, but I suppose it's the best you can expect a non-techie/math nerd readership to get. Heck, it's probably close to the most you can expect the average programmer to get. EDIT: And another one... "Graham met Morris, an authority on the Unix computer language"
> Heh... completely wrong, but I suppose it's the best you can expect a non-techie/math nerd readership to get. Heck, it's probably close to the most you can expect the average programmer to get.
How would you explain the Y Combinator to the Hacker News readership?
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#19"Y Combinator--a computer term for a program that runs other programs" Heh... completely wrong, but I suppose it's the best you can expect a non-techie/math nerd readership to get. Heck, it's probably close to the most you can expect the average programmer to get. EDIT: And another one... "Graham met Morris, an authority on the Unix computer language"
> Heh... completely wrong, but I suppose it's the best you can expect a non-techie/math nerd readership to get. Heck, it's probably close to the most you can expect the average programmer to get. How would you explain the Y Combinator to the Hacker News readership?
I wouldn't. I barely understand the concept myself. :-)
...but I know it's much more involved than "a program that runs other programs".