This is outright jealously and conspiracy. This is just ridiculous as to how people cant digest the fact that companies getting out of YC are going places. All the reasons given in here like noisy parties and things are funny. But one thing is that YC/PG combo has ruffled few feathers :).
25,000 page views on an average is impressive. It also proved wrong some of the prediction that after the competition, the traffic will drop down. The articles and stuffs in here are so good that its better to read it in than to visit multiple sites :)
Pissedoff, stop worrying and do your work and get your thing launched. if people are copying your idea, it means its a great one. Second thing is, world is full of copycats and even if she had not steal u r idea, some one would have become your competitor pretty fast. so think her as your competitor and kick start to get her out of business.
kyro, try telling u r idea in your most trusted circle..say friends and if none can help you, ask them to suggest a possible reference who could do it for you. That way you can get a tech guy straight away. If you still cannot find one, narrate your idea and what u want to build to some tech guy and get his advice of which tools are needed, then u can start learning that language.
Getting frustrated for small things? First thing is one must understand that they may be better plans and ideas by better people. The assumptions that my idea is the best is the cause of these problems. When one is passionate about one's stuff, a slight rejection of that angers one. If one things that his/her own stuff is the best then why not be confident enough to keep working on that and may be who knows that D-day will come when you will be recognized.
hmmm are people after money only? I think there may be just very few who will encash the money and take an early retirement. Some may just become angel investors and put some cash into startups. But on the whole if google cannot hold back their employees then there may be something to do with erosion of google culture or mistake in finding the right hire.
I hate the censoring of comments on reddit & news.yc. It seems contrary to the entrepreneurial mindset.
If Steve Jobs got on a board like this in the '70s, and announced that he was going to start a company building PCs when mainframes were sexy, he probably would've been downvoted too.
Ok, I might've over reacted there. I should've said I LOVE everything about News.YC except the censoring of down-voted comments :)
Regardless, it looks like other comments w/ negative karma are grayed out (like http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13764 ). So I imagine this comment was probably deleted by the author...
This is another classic example of an offbeat topic posted in here. No algorithm or methods can stop these things. The posters need to be more responsible in their postings
So are off-topic posts completely banned here? Clearly the focus of this site is business and startup news, but I think it's up to the community to decide what ends up on the front page.
