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Beautiful API.

Starbucks is the only chain where I've never been served a bad or stale cup of coffee. The value of a guaranteed good cup of coffee to a white-collar professional making $80/hour is much higher than Starbucks' price. I'd be willing to pay at least $5. They just have to boil the frog to deal with price expectations.

Good luck. The U.S. market is kind of the opposite, hard to find a job these days even if you're good.

Really neat. Would be awesome to have online matchmaking. Would be interesting to play against another random human.

I enjoy the gameplay, the mechanic of building up big words to eat through the opponents structure is really cool! I'm a big addict of wordle and quina as well. Word games in general still feel unexplored, I always expect them not to be fun and then get sucked in.

Are you hiring for a specific req? What country?

Go into an industry that's not overly political and where you're useful enough not to be judged on arbitrary qualities like your (a)sexuality.

Quite a long discussion of how important the "best" universities are to starting a startup. Nothing YC-specific.

> And if you want to start a startup you should try to get into the best university you can, because that's where the best cofounders are. It's also where the best employees are. When Larry and Sergey started Google, they began by just hiring all the smartest people they knew out of Stanford, and this was a real advantage for them.

> The empirical evidence is clear on this. If you look at where the largest numbers of successful startups come from, it's pretty much the same as the list of the most selective universities.

> I don't think it's the prestigious names of these universities that cause more good startups to come out of them. Nor do I think it's because the quality of the teaching is better. What's driving this is simply the difficulty of getting in. You have to be pretty smart and determined to get into MIT or Cambridge, so if you do manage to get in, you'll find the other students include a lot of smart and determined people.

> You don't have to start a startup with someone you meet at university... but universities are the main source of cofounders. And because they're where the cofounders are, they're also where the ideas are, because the best ideas grow out of projects you do with the people who become your cofounders.

> So the list of what you need to do to get from here to starting a startup is quite short. You need to get good at technology, and the way to do that is to work on your own projects. And you need to do as well in school as you can, so you can get into a good university, because that's where the cofounders and the ideas are.

> Where did you get that impression

Probably from Paul Graham: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756865

Students are willing to work hard for free for the 0.001% chance that they'll be the next Mark Zuckerberg.

Work at a good company and you'll find that the juniors are pretty capable.

> It is still remarkably better than working with junior developers

It really bugs me when people imply AI will replace only certain devs based on their title.

Seniority does not equal skill. There are plenty of extremely talented "junior" developers who don't have the senior title because of a slow promo process and minimum time in role requirements. They can and do own entire projects and take on senior-level responsibilities.

I've also worked with a "senior" dev who struggled for over a month to make a logging change.

> Humans can reason purely form the armchair, starting with very few concepts, and reach far far, ironclad conclusions. Models aren’t doing that.

Sure, but the structure of human reasoning is almost identical to chains of thought. We have an auditory loop and, faced with a complex problem we repeat the mantra "now that I know XYZ, then what..." until the a good next step pops into our head and we add that to the context.

The transition function just is (currently) much better in humans.

Edit: people who disagree with this, why?