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I'm a Python hacker and musician!
Update: OK. No one seems to get the joke. The explanation is as follows. These are my actual interview questions. No coder would do an essay assessment, so I came out with the most outlandish, didactic, "you are inferior" way of making an assessment. I promise my April Fool's joke will be better.
Don't call us domain squatters. We're domain farmers. And you're just jealous. :-)
Too young. My early scene was meeting up with the local kids to swap BASIC programs, pirated games, and 8-bit video game cartridges.
I got it a long time ago but started using it very recently.
Just because I upvote something doesn't mean I want to save it!
I'd love to have that.
Kind of a more-intensive, tech version of the Tuesday Night Music Club.
First rule: no bringing your girlfriend, even if she is Sheryl Crow.
I really think I can prove myself and my ideas. I wish I were better at networking.
Yeah, a different, more literal kind of alone.
I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type.
The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-powered marketing person who wanted to fasttrack the branding campaign before I even had a product or clients. We'd all worked together well in the context of a larger company, but we couldn't reconcile our directional aspirations for a startup.
So this year, I'm alone. In Northern Virginia's technology corridor. I would love a hackerly co-founder, or at least someone to bounce my ideas off of. All my friends from CS classes keep moving to the West coast to work for the Googles and Microsofts of the world. I have a feeling my YC application this year is going to be rejected simply because I'm a sole founder.
I feel that THIS summer will be THE summer that I turn one of my projects into a startup, so in the past month, I've quit full time work and moved into a cheaper place to live.
I'm currently doing requirements gathering for my first project, and I've already done around 400 lines of coding. I wish I wasn't alone.