nicklovescode

I agree that a major success story would chance public perception of the Fellowship, but I want to add that many of the Fellows who have had success have decided not to publicize it.

To be clear, you cannot be enrolled at a university and go through the Fellowship at the same time. My comment above referred to post-Fellowship.

I'm working on http://usebloom.com for the foreseeable future with another Thiel Fellow.

I find I learn best by reading books and talking with smart people, both of which can be done outside an academic setting, so I've decided not to go to college.

First year Thiel Fellow here. Just wanted to add that the Thiel Foundation(who oversee the program) isn't necessarily against going back to school and never have been.

They've been very open that for some projects, academia is a good place to be.

Other discussion on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7961944

Thanks for the reminder! I was planning to apply, but other things got in the way and I would have forgotten.

I've been using a graph db as my primary database with my last project(neo4j) and it has been a pleasure. I wish a good graph database was hooked in with the new Google Cloud stuff so it could be queried/visualized/performance analyzed in a similar fashion to the BigTable demo earlier

Wohoooo Congrats!

That sounds amazing. You should make it and report back.

Sous vides are great because they actually allow you to measure things properly. Do you consider pressure cooking "modern" because that's also great. There's also some cool stuff you can do with a whipping siphon[0]

[0] https://www.chefsteps.com/classes/whipping-siphons/landing

As someone who has struggled with this problem recently, thank you. I've spent a good portion of the last week battling irritating Redactor issues such as global variable conflicts and literally hardcoded PHP path values.

I will be very happy if this turns out to work as good as it looks at a first glance.

Why is this comment downvoted? Is it because of the <i> in probably? I've never researched this personally but have heard evidence supporting this from people who have.

I've been using Elasticsearch as a primary database for my new project, which has basically been a good NoSQL db that happens to have great search. However, peripheral tools(performance testing, hosting) have been a bit rough.

How do the two databases compare now. Is search improving in Mongo or is that something they are not really worrying about at the moment.

the door is locked and we don't carry keys :)

In the case of this house specifically, most people walk/bike rather than drive, and walking around with a garage opener in your pocket isn't as nice as talking into your headphones.

Our housemates seem to have decided that it's just over the border of the tradeoff between convenience and fear :)

Thanks for the offer. I would enjoy looking at the code.

can't respond to PG's comment directly for some reason. Any cool software ideas you'd like to briefly share?

"Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this YC cycle"

To be clear, you mean you are going to stop maintaining the codebase of HN, not stop actively participating in the community, right?

I used it in production for an application that is in the App Store right now(ChefSteps). It was a pleasure. It doesn't quite feel completely native yet, but it's close.

purposefully tried to say it in a way that wouldn't seem like I was trolling. Alas, this comment came up anyway.

You seem to be saying the opposite of what the parent comment is.

gotcha, cool

Why do you choose to use Windows today?

Tried it a month or so ago. Couldn't get Vim keybindings working well. Hands don't work without it anymore :/

Can I use it online? That would be the killer feature for me, being able to code on anyone's computer in a second. Currently it's basically the only thing stopping me from being able to pick up anyone's computer and use it as I use my own.

maybe you have?

any chance of you guys open-sourcing them?

Well all my programming tools feel obsolete.