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They can spin this any way the want, at the end of the day, they're trying to do one thing: find programmers dumb enough to work for free.
Notice how bright the suits are? The people that would get into that, are EXACTLY the kind of people that they need least.
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Ah yes...there's something magical about hackers that means they can learn business, but "businessmen" can never learn the mystical arts of hacking. Give me a break. Actually, rather than repeat myself, here's my comment from a couple weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=515978
"Ah yes...there's something magical about hackers that means they can learn business, but "businessmen" can never learn the mystical arts of hacking." YOU BET! Sure, some MBA can click on menus or slap whatever together. That's not hacking.
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"I think that there are some people on this forum that are missing the point. Just because you are a hacker, does not mean that you have the ingredients to make a successful company." AND? Who cares? You are talking as if making a "successful company" is the be all end all and the ultimate objective of hacking. Hacking is about Hacking, it is not about money, companies, meetings, sub 90 IQ's in suits, etc etc etc
Well, I think that based on the context of this forum (YCombinator is a seed stage incubator fund) we can assume most people here are interested in either starting a company themselves, or getting involved with one. So, is making a "successful company" the be all, end all? No. However, TechStars is attempting to open a door here, and many people are slamming it shut.
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Notice how bright the suits are? The people that would get into that, are EXACTLY the kind of people that they need least.
Why is this us vs. them? Starting a successful company requires a balanced, capable team, a ton of luck, and long hours. If this is your attitude, I would not want to hire you regardless of your self-proclaimed technical prowess.
out of all 4 strawmen you posted, you hiring me was the funniest . . .
"self-proclaimed technical prowess"
Ok buddy, please quote me proclaiming my technical prowess or do STFU
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It's not arrogance when it is the truth. If I could stay awake long enough, that MBA spiel is ELEMENTARY PLEASE
Ah, so you have an MBA? Which you earned while sleeping through that simplistic spiel? Please talk about your experiences so I can develop a similar distaste for an oversimplistic overhyped major, or else stop talking about things you have no personal experience with.
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Here is one you can understand:
Successfully represented myself in US Federal Court as a plaintiff in a civil rights case, and won! no legal training at all, just read a couple of books, went at it, won, no help, nothing, just me and a couple of books, oh, and I did most of this over the US Postal service, while locked up in a US immigration jail, with a barracks full of neanderthals around me whom I didn't get along with (but I held my own, no one fd with me), and neanderthals in uniforms on my case . . . want a docket number? 98-0711-CV-W-2-P Roman v. Conard, US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri . . . Law is at least a somewhat interesting topic that I can respect, it can at least be intellectually challenging (for some time anyway) at times . . . but MBA crap? PUUUHLLLLEEEEEZZZZZ PUHLEEZZ
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"Ah yes...there's something magical about hackers that means they can learn business, but "businessmen" can never learn the mystical arts of hacking." YOU BET! Sure, some MBA can click on menus or slap whatever together. That's not hacking.
You sound like the type of person that does not belong on any start up team. You have to learn to get along with people (even businesspeople), especially because you will be working with them for 18 hours per day.
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"Ah yes...there's something magical about hackers that means they can learn business, but "businessmen" can never learn the mystical arts of hacking." YOU BET! Sure, some MBA can click on menus or slap whatever together. That's not hacking.
You sound like the type of person that does not belong on any start up team. You have to learn to get along with people (even businesspeople), especially because you will be working with them for 18 hours per day.
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"Ah yes...there's something magical about hackers that means they can learn business, but "businessmen" can never learn the mystical arts of hacking." YOU BET! Sure, some MBA can click on menus or slap whatever together. That's not hacking.
You sound like the type of person that does not belong on any start up team. You have to learn to get along with people (even businesspeople), especially because you will be working with them for 18 hours per day.
yah MKAY
So I speak the truth, and that makes me a non "team player"
lol
Here's my initial impression: 15 hours a week? Is that even going to get anything done?
Basecamp was made with 10 hours per week. Doubt you'll find a DHH working for free.
Most successful start ups I know of were spending that much time in a single day.
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Basecamp was made with 10 hours per week. Doubt you'll find a DHH working for free.
Basecamp is among the only applications I know of that were built on 10 hours per week (assuming that's true), and even then it was a side project. Most successful start ups I know of were spending that much time in a single day.