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Although I don't think that one day will make a huge difference (it'll take more than a day to get back to normal) I also don't see why the deadline shouldn't be extended.

Majority of people submitted their applications and I'm sure many keep editing them (in fact I am right now) but the reality is that the last day editing won't change that much anyways. So if everyone gets an extra day, your chances of getting in will most likely remain nearly unchanged, while the people on the East coast will at least get some kind of a chance to submit the next DropBox or AirBnb.
You have to push the deadline back.

Right now youtube is readonly - can't change video permissions to "anyone" from "private".
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> On Macdrifter Gabe Weatherhead said:
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> > Nowhere does he mention MMD and it seems very unlikely that he does not know about it. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/multimarkdown]

Wow. Just because there’s a Stack Overflow tag for it doesn’t mean that Jeff knows about it. It’s a community-driven site.
If someone affected by the disaster gets their application in a couple days late, and you think from their application that they have a good chance of launching a successful startup, why wouldn't you accept them?

If I were in your position, I wouldn't miss out on people I think are good applicants because a natural disaster prevented them from meeting an arbitrary deadline.
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Where do you suggest old people live, then? Most everywhere else in the US requires car ownership to get around. Old people and cars do NOT mix well for anybody. In NYC, they can step out of their apartment and have everything they need within a few blocks.
>Nowhere does he mention MMD and it seems very unlikely that he does not know about it.

I would hardly expect Jeff to keep track and know of every topic in StackOverflow, let alone one with only 11 questions. Give the man some room to err.
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In general, these questions would benefit from more nuance, as "yes/no" don't accurately portray each candidate's position on a bunch of different issues. Some examples:

- Romney believes the right to abortion ought to be preserved in cases of rape or when there's a threat to the mother's life.
- Obama hasn't endorsed raising the Social Security retirement age and campaigned against in 2008, but seemed willing to consider the idea as part of a compromise solvency package during the Bowles-Simpson negotiations.
- Obama flat out supports lowering the corporate tax rate.

Also, when someone lands in the middle zone, it doesn't really make sense to say they should vote for a 3rd party as virtually all 3rd party candidates are either to the left of Obama or the right of Romney.
Glad you wrote this. Looking at my YC batchmates, I don't see a lot of people with "how I got into YC" stories.

YC tends to select founders who are both talented and confident, so the overwhelming attitude among founders is, "of course I got in," not, "oh wow, I can't believe that happened!"

Of the 80-ish companies in the S12 batch, I can think of 3 with interesting "How I got in to YC" stories, and two of those boil down to, "we had amazing traction." Only Instacart's beer delivery was really a hack, and even that was a demo that their service really worked.

The hack stories are interesting because they're rare. It's important to show off your scrappiness and tenacity, but most founders do that by describing something they've done that produced a worthwhile outcome, not by performing a stunt during the application process.

The only reliable way I can think of to "hack" the YC application process is to apply with a business that you're going to pursue regardless of whether or not YC accepts you. The YC application is full of questions young companies should ask themselves, anyway, and the added confidence can't hurt during interviews.
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Great question. There are actually very few customers for this app. I have worked in this industry (as a broker, for an airframe mfg and now a guidance avionics mfg) for a few years and know many personally. Enough to build it 'virally'. So short answer: email and assisting the converts to invite others. Of course, the standard tools apply as well, but it's a very small niche for sure.

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is the market data that will be crowd-sourced, not the size of our user base.
I've never been able to get into Evernote. I think my problem with their approach to design is that they try to solve all of these random different use cases with random different features. And when you do that, you end up with a really fragmented app and features that never get touched by 99% of users. (Those Firefox heatmaps come to mind.)

On the opposite end of the spectrum is something like Trello or Workflowy. They decided on several core abstractions: cards for Trello and nodes for Workflowy. Then, as the user, you figure out how to bend those core components to fit your needs. And the product itself remains incredibly basic.

I realize there's also a danger in abstracting things away too far, but it just seems like the other direction degrades into feature chaos way too quickly.
> What's stopping you?

Respect for the confidentiality of internal communications.

Anyone is free to share their own impressions, but it is inappropriate to pull someone else's privileged documents and wave them in public.
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iTunes 11 is obviously not free of skeuo. There is at least the brushed metal volume knob and the pseudo-LCD display. I don't see how the new iTunes went away from the old iTunes, skeuo-wise, apart from the less-but-still-skeuo-looking LCD display.
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Thanks for confirming this.

It seemed obvious that his back-to-back failures with Siri + Maps and the fact that lots of people inside Apple hated him were the reason for this, but it was impossible to know for certain without somebody inside taking a risk and saying that.

Care to speculate on who would be next in line to be CEO now? That was presumably Forstall. Now it would be Cue or Ive or...?
It's not terribly hard to see how this whole thing came to be offensive to him. Jeff put Gruber in the public spotlight with a question like "give us permission?"

Gruber says 'Yes': whoop de doo

Gruber says 'No': Well, the person at fault looks like Gruber for being prohibitive of others trying to improve his work.

If his opinion was really to be respected, Jeff should've messaged John behind closed doors to see if he could expect his support or not on this committee, like John had any real say in the matter.
Applying to YC and willing to share you idea?
We all know ideas are not what make a startup succeed, but rather the founders' experience and willingness to make those ideas happen (among other factors). It'd be interesting to see what ideas different teams are applying with.
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Great point on the example data. Although I disabled emails from the HN test account linked to here, you can get an idea of what the 'purchaser experience' would be like from the JetDeck homepage (www.jetdeck.co) and clicking the "Try a Demo Now" button. This is a link to a demo of what the customer actually sees after a broker has entered the data in the JetDeck portal: http://www.jetdeck.co/specs/4425542.php?name=Sam
I do wonder what percentage of people drop or pivot due to a YC rejection. It seems weird to me that not continuing would be the norm.
"Get off the cross, we need the wood".

Equating human tragedy with an application to YC is inane. It's an application, that's all it is. Apply next time. Or drop a note to pg with an explanation if it's that important to you.
Just put it on the European Nexus then :)

It may not be the best feature on a phone, but a guest account could be useful.
Another good idea on the pre-loading of configs. We've shelved that as a phase 2 feature for now, but wholeheartedly agree it's a big win that would make data entry way less painful. Sounds like you know something about aerospace, Sam.
Article does a great job summing up some of the reasons why the entrepreneurial culture in the US is unmatched. If you doubt it, spend some time in other first world nations. You don't really realize it until you live outside the US.

The point about bankruptcy is a very good one that often goes unnoticed. Failure is just not that big of a deal in the US. In many states, you get to keep your house. Chapter 11 is a fascinating system. Both consumer and business bankruptcy have been tightened under Republican power at the behest of creditors, however.
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Yes. Extend by a week even, but only for those who submitted at least once before the storm started.
Could someone summarize how programmers.stackexchange.com has changed, for those of us who were not heavy users?
You could always work on your YC application while you're sitting in the waiting room.
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Then you quit.

Better would be to make sure that you have good documentation of the event in the case of the shit hitting the fan.
Pretty standard (and smart) timing of the announcement. They release it while the media is focused on Sandy and the election so the minimum amount of scrutiny will be placed on Apple.

One of the biggest questions about Tim Cook was whether he could keep the management team together. Now one of the longest serving and most importance pieces of that unit is leaving. Whether or not it was a good decision, the market is going to interpret this negatively and they'll be scared there will be more of this.

If this were good news this is the last time Apple would have released it...
Is this your site? It looks like mostly static markup. Is this supposed to be a blog or something? I recognize a few of the artists from Soundcloud...where is the music coming from?
Actually not that hard of a question to answer if you know how to stretch the term 'hack' to mean various things..
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It was until the riscpc and a5000 machines.
Except I only do device management because the limited data plan is a problem that doesn't go away - and you have it too, because you're limited to 6 GB and that's not much.

This month I've been following the Coursera course on functional programming with Scala, while listening to other podcasts and stuff I follow. I like doing that in the morning, while drinking a coffee at a nice place. And because I wasn't careful about turning Wifi on (it was off for some reason), I depleted 2 GB of bandwidth in 2 hours, which was the bandwidth I had left - the connection was so good I didn't even realize that I was on 3G.

Also, I'm probably in a much better position than most people, because my monthly plan does not come with a contract, being a PrePay (PrePay plans are very competitive in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, compared to the US at least). So I can recharge as needed.

But other people are not so lucky and once you blow past the allocated bandwidth, the prices are freaking huge on a contract. I have an acquaintance who's kid watched movies on his phone and ended up with a 300 EUR bill.

So btw, if you're telling me that you don't do device management, just wait until you'll be a father.
Personally, we're down one founder for our video due to the storm (he lost power/internet). We've completed our app a couple weeks ago but were taking our time with the video. The storm actually disrupted our Google Hangout-based video mid take (take number 3, but still).

If we didn't have an extension, we'd probably just put an addendum to the start of our video noting the lack of polish due to this complication, and just run with it. We'd hope the video wouldn't be a deal killer anyways.

But yes, it would be a nice gesture to push the deadline back.
Part of the problem is Gruber is incredibly resistant to change. The software he wrote hasn't changed in 8 years, despite a number of bugs.
yeah, it's my site. Mostly suppose to be a blog/discovery tool. All of the music is from soundcloud.
So, what I'm hearing is that in about 10 years, Forstall will be brought to "save" apple again?
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If Gruber says no, then who else besides him is to blame for needlessly attempting to block Markdown's forward progress, especially when it is seriously in need of attention, and when he has not put in any effort to give it some?

The person at fault would look like Gruber because the person at fault would be Gruber.
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Am I the only one who thinks Jeff Atwood is completely without the necessary credibility to spearhead an effort like this?

To say nothing of the time-tested idiocy of designing a spec by committee? IEEE telco protocols being the canonical example?

The whole effort seems like a terrible idea. Gruber's responses seem to me to be completely appropriate.
It's interesting to see how a storm can singlehandedly cut out some major websites and cause millions to go without power. I think it shows how fragile this tech world really is, and how little we should rely on it in case of a major disaster.
Regardless of how much I dislike Gruber's opinions on occasion, Jeff Atwood is completely steamrolling him here and I really feel for him; it isn't an accident that Jeff blogged about it instead of asking him privately. You do that when you don't care either way what the person says, and it's a completely dick move. As another commenter pointed out, there is no winning move for John Gruber here. That's so obvious that I can't even give Jeff the benefit of the doubt that he overlooked it.

This entire experience has left me with a bad taste in my mouth about Jeff Atwood -- I sure hope he doesn't set his sights on something useful that I've created for the world. You can make whatever argument you like about Gruber not "paying enough attention" to his creation, but Markdown doesn't really need to be "fixed" or "standardized". I look forward to the, undoubtedly, dozens of vendor-specific extensions that will be necessary in the final product and we'll end up right back at square one.

Really, really presumptuous and poor judgment. Invent your own stuff and let it stand on its merits rather than trading on Markdown's well-established name by force.
This just in after the wsj that likely used the co-branded celebrity HN comment from earlier as the source for it's repeatedly vaguely mentioned source.
Forstall was the executive most like Steve Jobs within the company, so it will be interesting to see what he does next. He got forced out, just like Steve did. Now will he start a new company and get acquired and become the CEO down the road?
I think it's a tremendous strength that the design hasn't needed to drastically change in 5 years and stay competitive. A lot of people are still getting their first iDevice. If you google "android home screen"

https://www.google.com/search?q=android+home+screen&qscr...

you'll get a cacaphony of different interfaces. Android may be "converging" on the right design, a potentially better design, but meanwhile people are suffering through all sorts of inconsistencies. For the vast majority of people who want their phones to "just work", Apple's approach is better [design it right, up front, in a way that can be used for years].
> Am I the only one who thinks Jeff Atwood is completely without the necessary credibility to spearhead an effort like this?

I don't think he'll be spearheading it by the end, for whatever thats worth.
Are there a lot of things that have been standardized without a committee being involved? I'm not aware of many. Designed, yes. Standardized, no.
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Off-topic: It's interesting that word 'countenance' appeared at the top in his screenshoot. That's the only word I still remember from my word-memorization spree while prepping for the GRE.

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> Co-branded employees should get some workday time for
> activities that support the company's goals. But
> setting limits on those activities, along with clear
> expectations for what else these employees need to
> accomplish, can help ensure that they complete their
> primary work and avoid resentment from their
> nonblogging, nontweeting colleagues.

The paternalism of this remark is mindblowing. It reads like advice for parents whose children like videogames. Nobody in any job I've ever had has had to explicitly "set limits" on things because part of the point of hiring somebody is that you ensure that you think they're a responsible grown-up who can be trusted to work hard. I don't see why that would suddenly change if I happened to have a blog with thousands of readers.
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Sorry, creator and maintainer of marked here ( https://github.com/chjj/marked ). Is a repo for this spec up on github yet? I have a few obscure cases across multiple markdown engines that I've documented over the past year or so. Are only the top dogs (reddit, stack, github, etc) invited to join the development? A spec for markdown should be more than just what features are included (GFM tables, code fences, etc).

I hope development of this spec will be perpetual, similar to the WHATWG's HTML(5), if it happens at all. I've been dealing with markdown edge cases for more than a year now and I'm always finding new things I missed. It's really amazing how markdown is just a giant string of special cases and exceptions (this is probably due to the way it was initially written). The post by Jeff Atwood lead me to believe it's supposed to be geared more toward features as opposed to exact specifications. (I could be wrong about this).

Although I agree Gruber seemed kind of impolite and dismissive here, I think we should take things slow, and not rush into making a "spec" right away. The closest thing there has ever been to a markdown spec was Gruber's original test suite (on top of the markdown docs). It is actually kind of hard to track down since you can't find it on his website (I don't think I saw it mentioned in these articles either). My test suite is based on a fork of it ( https://github.com/chjj/marked/tree/master/test/tests ). That test suite covers no where near enough to demonstrate everything. I have a feeling this spec would take a long time to complete, especially if it's including more compex features like GFM tables and whatnot. There will also probably be a ton of arguing over which features should be included.
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You say that as if companies won't find a way to take over:

Some of them will try, from time to time, but they will largely fail. Though to be on the safe side, don't share your social networking account passwords with anyone at the company you work for..
As Gruber said:

> If you liked the original, which I created dictatorially, what makes you think you’d like a sequel from by a committee?

What dictator ever accepted that a group of people could do a better job?

The best thing for this new effort is to now embrace the new name (tentatively Rockdown), create the test suite and move on.

Markdown becomes one of the influencers in the footnotes, and hopefully we all get a highly consistent and implementable syntax and set of parsers that we can use.

My hope is that the "committee" isn't open to anyone joining it, or open to too much external influence. dgreensp (from Meteor) seemed to hope that too, and was reaching out to just the right people who could make a difference and whose views were valuable.

It's a shame Jeff felt the need to create such a spectacle when this could've just been presented fait accompli without having such a distracting spectacle.

dgreensp had it right though, but just didn't account for Jeff's character (although he clearly did account for Gruber's by not CC'ing him originally). Here's hoping that he now ignores both of them and pushes forward anyway.

Consistent tests that lead to consistent and implementable parsers... these are good goals.

If Markdown has to have a 5% change in it's DNA to make this work, then this is also a good thing.

I hope dgreensp isn't feeling too disheartened by the clash of personalities of Gruber and Jeff.
The rest of the article is so-so, but the emphasis on avoiding offending one's cow-orkers misses the key point: if employee A is annoyed that employee B is getting more money for doing more and better work, it should be reasonably obvious that employee B isn't the problem.
Am I the only one who thinks Jeff Atwood is completely without the necessary credibility to spearhead an effort like this?

That's how things get done. People get credibility by standing up, leading, and getting things done in the way Atwood does. He didn't have the "credibility" to partner with Joel Spolsky and create Stack Overflow either but I'm glad Joel didn't see it that way.
> belong in jail for the billions of dollars of shareholder value that they torched for no good reason.

Wait, isn't it the shareholders' risk of investing in a company that torches money for no good reason?
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1. Hitler basically stalled and wrecked the jet fighter development, diverting its resources to developing a fairly ineffective jet bomber.
2. The cruise missiles and ballistic missiles contributed essentially nothing to the war effort, while consuming vast resources. They simply weren't accurate enough, and were misused as well (London was a political target, not a military one).
3. You're right about that, but U-Boots were big in WW1, too.
4. Hitler still put his faith in fixed fortifications, despite the success of his generals with mobile warfare.

There's no doubt that the German army had many forward thinking ideas. But I'm talking about Hitler overriding them and refighting WW1.
> Did I get smarter between being a sophomore and being a senior? Not at all!

You learned nothing in 2 years of high school? Huh.
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