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Re: Photos of a YC dinner happening

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Post by pg »

There are few photos of YC dinners. Usually we'd frown on it because it would be distracting. But we wanted some new images for our site, so we asked one of the founders who was a good photographer to take some. The speaker that week was Ron Conway. We also had Steven Levy and Paul Buchheit visiting.

Re: Photos of a YC dinner happening

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Post by python_kiss »

pg wrote: post #2

There are few photos of YC dinners. Usually we'd frown on it because it would be distracting. But we wanted some new images for our site, so we asked one of the founders who was a good photographer to take some. The speaker that week was Ron Conway. We also had Steven Levy and Paul Buchheit visiting.

There is something strange about that Segway; the wheels and the handle on it look very different. But anyway, great photos! I think this topic was posted earlier as well :)

Re: Photos of a YC dinner happening

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Post by paul »

python_kiss wrote: post #3
pg wrote: post #2

There are few photos of YC dinners. Usually we'd frown on it because it would be distracting. But we wanted some new images for our site, so we asked one of the founders who was a good photographer to take some. The speaker that week was Ron Conway. We also had Steven Levy and Paul Buchheit visiting.

There is something strange about that Segway; the wheels and the handle on it look very different. But anyway, great photos! I think this topic was posted earlier as well :)

It's not a Segway. It's better. http://www.tlb.org/scooter2.html

Re: Photos of a YC dinner happening

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Post by mynameishere »

Ugh. Macintoshes. I know pg came out in their favor a while ago ("All the hackers I know are switching to Macs"...something like that). But, man, to see it in reality. My mother has an older OSX machine. What a piece of work. Even the parts of it that are supposed to be good, like the interface, are just clumsy. The mouse is ungainly, with one big "button", making a laughable full-palm-press-down the most reliable way to click. The scrollbars and window-edges are mysteriously hard to grab. The icons in the taskbar would have seemed childish to me when I was 10. The power of Unix is pretty well hidden. If I'm on my linux machine, you can bet I'm not using KDE. Without the shell, linux might as well be Windows.

Now, if it was OSX vs. Windows 98, sure. But XP (*) is stable and the candy colors are easily removed. The security problems only concern the ignorant. I'm not too impressed by people who will pay a 400-800 dollar premium for the geek equivilent of a status symbol.

(*) I've never used Vista.

Re: Photos of a YC dinner happening

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Post by pg »

python_kiss wrote: post #8
danielha wrote: post #5

Is this the Mountain View location? That's a snazzy looking room.

I think the photos were taken this winter, so it must be Mountain View. I like the padded walls; are those to reduce echo?

http://www.auralex.com/acoustic_studiofoam_4p/acoustic_studiofoam_4p.asp

Re: Photos of a YC dinner happening

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Post by jasonyan »

mynameishere wrote: post #7

Ugh. Macintoshes. I know pg came out in their favor a while ago ("All the hackers I know are switching to Macs"...something like that). But, man, to see it in reality. My mother has an older OSX machine. What a piece of work. Even the parts of it that are supposed to be good, like the interface, are just clumsy. The mouse is ungainly, with one big "button", making a laughable full-palm-press-down the most reliable wa…

I'm not a fan of Mac OS X by any means, but I have to admit, the hardware is impressive. I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I'm hard pressed against picking one up because they aren't that much more expensive than the laptops that I am looking at.
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