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analyst @ USV. secretly likes to build things.
We'd like it to be differentiated. Discussions on how we view things can be quite different from how the tech community at large does. So we think there's value in other people seeing a discussion from that angle, as well as being the first online community in which you can directly engage in a discussion with a VC
our thought process was that if you can't write something interesting about the link, even just a sentence, it's probably not worth posting
it also has the benefit of engendering more of a discussion. i'm more likely to comment on a post if the OP has already commented on it him/herself
but yes this is something we talked about internally
I wouldn't necessarily want every comment I write to become a tweet. Like this one, for example
yes, we're considering open sourcing all of the code, if that's what you mean
in general we're very pro-open source