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Why would Paul leave just before launch? To me it means Paul either was never involved even though he was told he would be, or it's crap and he's leaving before the shit hits the fan.
"Y Combinator, the increasingly famous Silicon Valley incubator.." What an odd modifier.
Not particularly. What's odd about it? It's slightly more complex than desirable for good writing, but it's certainly well within normal bounds for size, especially for news articles. News articles do that sort of thing a lot.
YCombinator is "famous"?
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Question --- I haven't done much webdev stuff so this may sound silly, but --- why can't PMs work that way? Like, why can't I send markbao a private message by sending an email to markbao@news.ycombinator.com? And then the site could forward it on to his email address, or if the site wants to get fancy they'd store it in a database and display them as "comments" in the target user's "editing profile" screen (whenever…
A primary reason why a site wouldn't support PMs to markbao@news.ycombinator.com is that there is no access control. The address would get spammed too easily from senders with no affiliation with Hacker News. The current mechanism of only supporting messaging within the site limits this.
Wow. This changes my opinion of Facebook's webmail offering significantly. Congrats to Mr. Buchheit and YC, you're both making out like bandits.
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Not particularly. What's odd about it? It's slightly more complex than desirable for good writing, but it's certainly well within normal bounds for size, especially for news articles. News articles do that sort of thing a lot.
Increasingly famous just seems like an odd thing to use to describe YCombinator in the lead of a news story, out of all the things the writer could use to add context. YCombinator is "famous"?