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Formerly Framebase (YC S12), now helping inspire kids to pursue coding at CodeDay, www.codeday.org.

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www.nationalgeographic.com 4y ago

Pigeons adjust their flight initiation distance to road speed limits

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blog.codeday.org 5y ago

Scalable Swag Shipments for Startups

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blog.codeday.org 6y ago

How and why to use Nomad for orchestration at your startup

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medium.com 9y ago

Getting an Internship as a Middle Schooler

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blog.srnd.org 9y ago

Scaling Your People

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medium.com 12y ago

What You’re Really “Missing Out On” at YC

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tyler.menez.es 12y ago

"I Never Believed Startups Were Glamorous"

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medium.com 12y ago

STARTup - Just start.

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medium.com 12y ago

The Best Startup Advice You Can Give

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medium.com 13y ago

Education

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medium.com 13y ago

Toward An Idea-Centric Web

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medium.com 13y ago

You, the Engineering Problem

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medium.com 13y ago

Dropping Out

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medium.com 13y ago

Why do a startup?

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blog.studentrnd.org 13y ago

Kickstarter: Products, Promotion, and Passion

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www.skandermzali.com 13y ago

Everything I know about startups I learned playing World of Warcraft

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medium.com 13y ago

Teaching Better Technical Classes

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

It's okay to not like things

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blog.michaeltang.me 13y ago

On traversing an array in Javascript

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blog.michaeltang.me 13y ago

Yes `yes no`

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medium.com 13y ago

Dunning-Kruger

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blog.framebase.io 13y ago

HTML5 is the future of development, and it sucks

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blog.studentrnd.org 13y ago

Why Asians are Often Better at Math

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edjiang.com 13y ago

I don't understand how to use Facebook's Sponsored Posts

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blog.studentrnd.org 13y ago

You Don’t Learn to Ride a Bike by Reading a Textbook

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blog.studentrnd.org 13y ago

Tech Education Doesn't Happen In the Classroom

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vutran.me 13y ago

An experiment: Can desperation drive success?

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tyler.menez.es 13y ago

Twitter's Empathy Problem

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www.geekwire.com 13y ago

Meet the 7 Startups at StudentRND this Summer

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www.tapin.tv 13y ago

Interviews with Y Combinator partners: Garry Tan

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You reference Kinesis in the article so I assume you've seen the Kinesis Advantage 360? I've been a happy Kinseis Advantage user for two decades, and the 360 is pretty much perfect. It has dedicated keys for activating layers, you can remap and configure on a website using web serial, and it is extremely premium looking/feeling. And of course it's very comfortable without the thumb key problem discussed in this article.

- The Supreme Court just stopped the deal that would have let the Sackler family, the OxyContin pushers, off the hook personally.

Paused, and is reviewing an appeal after a court approved the deal.

- Hunter Biden's no-jail plea deal was rejected, and he goes to trial.

It wasn't really rejected, there was no deal at all. The two parties didn't have the same understanding of a key term of the deal, the judge pointed it out, and then the parties weren't able to agree on that term.

Changes at YC 3 years ago

There have been plenty of scaling problems (my batch, S12, has been publicly referred to a few times as "the batch that broke YC" for example).

Scaling is an iterative process :)

GraphQL supports schema stitching, so you can have one API endpoint request lots of different information from different services, and combine information seamlessly server-side. (e.g. Wordpress author -> user service -> posts on a different service)

Here's how we're using Wordpress and other GraphQL services at a smallish nonprofit: https://blog.codeday.org/how-graphql-helps-us-showcase-coded...

That page is powered by Wordpress over GraphQL, and you can try it yourself at https://graph.codeday.org/ (here's a sample query - query { blog { posts { nodes { title author { discordInformation { username discriminator }}}}}})

I'm not sure why they attributed this in part to pressure for job-related skills.

Everyone I've talked to who's concerned about that has been a professor at a community college (or other affordable school).

They should plaster the neighborhood in warning notices a month before the event

I grew up in Seattle but lived in Philly for 2 years and this was one of the strangest things to me. In many cases they don't post _any notices at all._

I knew enough people who got "courtesy" towed with no records that I added a GPS tracker to our car to make sure I could find it.

See also: https://www.inquirer.com/news/courtesy-towing-south-philly-p... https://www.inquirer.com/news/towing-philadelphia-parking-au...

I have nothing but positive memories from all the times we met in S12. Your genuine excitement for the cool products everyone was building was refreshing in a time when all my conversations were about customer development and building an org. (Not that we didn't also talk about that, of course, but you were always the biggest reminder WHY we were here.)

I really think there's no one better for this role, it makes me really excited about YC again! Congrats!

Azure support will have us recreate instances if there's a problem

Azure's network keeps randomly partitioning itself every few months, a bunch of VMs will be unable to talk in the same AZ with the same security policies etc, no changes at all for months. And yeah, they just tell us to recreate the instances which is a huge pain with Nomad. No one has ever shown any interest in figuring out what causes this, despite the fact that it's been happening for years.

This happened to me with multiple questions when I interviewed for a Facebook internship back in 2010.

I didn't really understand that this was bad (if I wasn't supposed to memorize the answers to all the questions, why were they all online and completely unrelated to the skills needed to be a developer?)

The interviewer got upset and asked me a poorly worded question which I think he made up on the spot.

I have read his spreadsheets, so here's my critique. (And I will say that, throwing all the spreadsheets out the window, I still agree broadly with many points to some extent.)

The input numbers (in meta.xlsx) come from imperfect samples of the real world with non-zero error -- often quite a bit higher than 0 -- which is compounded pretty far in some cases. I don't think any person actually can actually evaluate these studies, which is a major problem with this entire idea and is a fundamental problem with any overly-quantitative solutions to problems.

I recall meeting Oshmyansky when he was pitching Osh's Affordable Pharmaceuticals (I think at a YC interview day). He really has a thing for sketchy sounding names :) but I really admire how driven he is to solve this problem.

I can't speak for everyone but with the volume of investments YC makes, I find it hard to be biased toward a YC company.

I was told the reason for the orange username was so that we didn't start a fight with other YC alums, which would have been awkward back when the community was only a few hundred people.