Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why have a special modifier when you can just change the amount of upvotes to whatever you want? ;)
I believe there would inevitably be some blowback stemming from that sort of behaviour...
What makes you say that?
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Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
#42So who here applied?
And if you applied, what's the link to your application video?
We got a very good collection of links to ycombinator application videos going on over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862327
My application was WikiTorrents.org itself: http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got a very nice rejection email last year. Here it is: We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups. Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make…
So how did it go go for you post YC? Did you progress? Or did you apply again?
From his profile:
"I have always been very interested in the startup scene. I have been to startup school twice and applied to YC once with Docley (I didn't get in).
I was working on something cool: http://docley.com.
I am now working on something cooler: http://tabtrick.com/
Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
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See, this is where a fake notification date for the 3rd could be useful. That way when you get notified a day early on the 2nd, you are pleasantly surprised and haven't been dwelling on it all day.
Yeah but then they'd know the next time. I think it would be better if they had decided by the previous day, so they could send all the emails the morning of the last day and not have people obsess all day long...
In the end you will either get an email or you will not. It doesn't matter when it is sent.
You will also either start a company or not. It doesn't matter whether you get accepted or not.
Most importantly though - isn't it fantastic to be worried and nervous about this? If you're biting your nails right now it's because you put yourself in this position. You worked hard and spent energy on something you cared about and now you get to be judged. Just keep making yourself nervous and putting yourselves in these situations where you get feedback and can iterate and move forward. This is our crack.
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I believe there would inevitably be some blowback stemming from that sort of behaviour...
What makes you say that?
Well, it was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but eventually the truth would come out and users would be outraged - it's simply not worth it. Besides I just don't think PG has the mentality to do something like that :-)
Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you say that?
Well, it was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but eventually the truth would come out and users would be outraged - it's simply not worth it. Besides I just don't think PG has the mentality to do something like that :-)
To promote a message to the community, I certainly don't see why people would be outraged :P
Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
#47Observation: this is a time sensitive post by the forum's owner/maintainer/main moderator on the original topic of the forum. Yet, he did not need to rely on a "sticky" thread or any other kind of special modifier.
"Sticky" threads are typically seen in forums where the threads are ordered by time of most recent comment. They make more sense in that context.
One may also assume they're necessary in a forum where new posts are buried less than an hour after they're posted.
Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
#48Observation: this is a time sensitive post by the forum's owner/maintainer/main moderator on the original topic of the forum. Yet, he did not need to rely on a "sticky" thread or any other kind of special modifier.
Couldn't he have just rigged the algorithms to put this post at the top? That would be the backdoor equivalent of the "sticky" post.
It would actually be more interesting to me if pg had some quantitative way of knowing that this post would reach the top (some function of the # of YC applicants now nervously refreshing), but if I had to guess, I'd say he just knew from experience or something.
Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
#49 (def check-usernames (u)
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Re: If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
#50Fingers still crossed! Probably sleep with them crossed as well.