Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

Cool idea, I'd be interested in something like that too, although not out of any implied association with YC (the VC firm). More because I'm a student in a PL group :).

However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too!

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#5

Post by zach » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 9:54 PM UTC

I would prefer a shirt with the seven primitive operators of Lisp myself.

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

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Post by apgwoz » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

chwahoo wrote: post #4

Cool idea, I'd be interested in something like that too, although not out of any implied association with YC (the VC firm). More because I'm a student in a PL group :). However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too!

> However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too!

The font is FF Meta, the same font used in the Y Combinator (VC) logo.

It's unfortunate that the Y-Combinator is so long. I tried to kern so it would fit in a single line but be big enough to see on a shirt. Not sure that I succeeded exactly; maybe not based on your comment. :)

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

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Post by chwahoo » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 10:02 PM UTC

zach wrote: post #5

I would prefer a shirt with the seven primitive operators of Lisp myself.

Seven?!! ...so inelegant compared to the two rules needed for evaluating lambda calculus ;)

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

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Post by acangiano » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 10:04 PM UTC

For those interested, that's a $5.60 markup. Pretty honest IMHO.

EDIT: I was mistaken. It's a different type of shirt, so the markup is even less!

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

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Post by kevinburke » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 10:07 PM UTC

Any chance I could get one in orange instead of black?

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

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Post by apgwoz » Thu, Feb 17, 2011, 10:12 PM UTC

acangiano wrote: post #8

For those interested, that's a $5.60 markup. Pretty honest IMHO. EDIT: I was mistaken. It's a different type of shirt, so the markup is even less!

Actually it's not. It's 17.40 base price for the American Apparel shirt (which I made so I could buy, since that's my preference), so it's a $2.60 markup.