Back in '97, I was part of a team that built Piri The Explorer Ship, a Myst-like edutainment title, aimed to educate about the map... Check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrG5-1b0pgk

So I wonder, what is the percentage of YC companies that match this profile?

How about leaving your employees alone on Friday nights and weekends.

We don't force any of our employees to hang out with us (or work) on Friday nights and weekends. Often, I want to hang out with the team, because they'are awesome, but none of it is forced. We don't work weekends except in (rare) major pushes.

I love hanging out with my team. But I'm more proud of the fact that you don't have to hang out with us for us to spot your ability and extend an offer. And so we have some people in the office who hang out together, and some people who get in early and leave at 4.30. I'm very proud to have a culture that works for both kinds of people. It's one of the nicest things Patrick McKenzie ever said about us: they're friendly, happy people who get social license to join the Dark Side, do smart stuff all day, and then go home while it is still light out.

In that case, I don't think it is super effective to focus on cases that rarely happen.

Interesting read: http://blog.prettylittlestatemachine.com/blog/2013/02/20/wha...

The metaphor is not meant to be taken literally. It's a way of checking whether the person excites you and is someone you look forward to working with / being around.

Not necessarily an unbiased article, since the author is the VP of Marketing at PBWorks; an online collaboration tool. http://pbworks.com/about-us

VP of Marketing at what? Haven't heard of them. He should get back to doing his job instead of slinging mud at third party entities.

So the seller of tools used by telecommuters is not happy when Marissa Meyer suppress telecommuting.

Why not send people to http://www.chrisyeh.com, my ancient, hand-coded personal web site?

I think I only update it every few years because I hate having to rev up the ol' FTP client.

Ok, thanks. Fair enough. The About page on his site was rather uninformative.

One other funny point...the other Chris Yeh (who works at Box, another collaboration software company) used to work at Yahoo as their head of the Developer Network.

"Management is a skill not a career path"

So much to say about this.

"Preliminary indications are that it was a meteorite rain," an emergency official told RIA-Novosti. "We have information about a blast at 10,000-meter (32,800-foot) altitude. It is being verified." http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorit...

Useful link. I didn't see any that folded up. I guess its rather difficult to make something that will fold up and not tip over. The goal would be to keep it in my car (think fold-up chair).

I see. You are right. It doesn't fold. But probably it wouldn't take too long to disassemble an IKEA furniture. :)

Oh man I have had many horrible experience with missing IKEA parts bags (you know the plastic bag with the bolts). Make sure the bag is always taped on before leaving the store :)

http://db.tt/pUyP9ge Thank you :)

It is sad that CS students are now encouraged to become fancy sysadmins, linking existing technologies together 95% of the time and maybe adding 5% of actual stuff.

No wonder resumes come with tens of technology names on it, but the owner fails to implement basic things like itoa.