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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by knuckleheadsmif »

Dave_Rosenthal wrote: post #208

I worked with pg in a three-person startup in a basement in Harvard square just before he started YC. I was an undergrad at MIT and met him after arguing with rtm (who was a TA for my class) about TCP backoff. It was called Aspra and we were trying to build an app development platform for mobile phones. The idea was that you could build an application that could "render" to either an IVR system, for dumb phones, or t…

In the mid 90s (1996?) So myself and 3 others worked for Intuit and we traveled, from Mountain View CA, to your tiny office near Harvard to look at acquiring the company. I believe Intuit made a lowball offer and eventually you sold yourselves to Yahoo for twice the price. At Intuit we did not offer you guys money for the product, it really was not that special at all, but for the people—I thought only 3 folks at the time? The product was a web store front builder (Viaweb?) I don’t think we actually talked to Paul that day but I remember Trever and the tiny ‘server’ room.

It possible we may have met you too. It was a long time ago.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

tjmc wrote: post #223

Congratulations YC! I remember prior to HN, pg used to post his essays to Slashdot under the username Bugbear and all the attendant sniping and lame memes that would come back in response. Hacker News was a breath of fresh air and continues to be my favourite online community.

Thankfully, Natalie Portman setup a Beowulf cluster with hot grits to handle my memes!

I quite like(d) that silliness - but your could always choose to downgrade and hide 'funny' posts. I still miss the post/comment visibility functions from Slashdot.

Looks like pg 'joined' 6 Oct 2006; so we've a bit to wait for the HN 20th anniversary.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

romanhn wrote: post #137
redox99 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You visit every day for 15 years and never left a comment? That's kinda crazy. It makes me wonder if this is actually common and we don't realize.

Very common. I was a daily reader of Slashdot for ten years without ever creating an account. Took me only five to create one for HN :)

You read raw Slashdot!? You must be a connoisseur of copypasta and frosty piss.

To me that's like 'I love doughnuts, I buy one every day, but the paper bag bits do get stuck in my teeth'.

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Post by junon »

subless wrote: post #202

Also, thanks to @dang for keeping the community in-line with the rules/guidelines.

@dang is far and away the best community manager / moderator I've personally seen or interacted with on the internet. Nothing is ever black and white, but he makes managing that look easy. Huge respect.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

0xCE0 wrote: post #102

HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I love the near-non-BS nature of it. And even though the techland changes, HN itself has had very little change, so it acts somewhat safe stable ground/forum/club for observing the ever changing techland. Although I recognize there is somewhat minimal degr…

Me, too. It took you a little while to make that jump. How do you explain it?
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