I knew the answers to all of these questions two years ago when I had just graduated, but I've completely forgotten what heapsort is (despite having used it a few times in programming contests) and cannot offhand remember what "bipartite" means (googled, saw the wikipedia image and instantly remembered maxflow and Ford–Fulkerson although I guess a DFS is good enough to determine bipartite-ness).

Why is the ability to retain this information at the top of my mind at all times necessary for me to be a Software Developer?

The article basically says "A football match is now like a complicated, high-level chess match. It takes deep understanding to know what's going on, so only those parts of the match that most viewers can understand ought to be screened". This is not sound. By extension one could argue that complicated games should not be screened at all.

What's wrong with using dojo for a module system, namespaces and OOP?

You can do OOP in any langage and there is nothing wrong with dojo. But from my limited experience, maintaining large programs written in JavaScript is a tedious job (each program reinvent it's own OOP semantics)

I discovered reddit 10 months ago and was amazed at the community. Then I quickly grew tired of the boring submissions and comments. Then I discovered reddit's secret - the lesser known subreddits.

The front page of my internet looks pretty interesting to me. It has a Tolkien article, a documentary about rainforest birds, some black-hole-milky-way-gamma-ray article, a usability article (Video captioning techniques and best practices), and a ton of history and grammar discussions.

It amazes me that your 9 year old could distinguish between the ideas and the presentation. :) It's a skill I'm stil trying to make-innate (can't find the word for that).

grok

Every time I see that word it makes me cringe. It sounds like a disgusting bodily function. I wish we could all decide to let this "word" die in peace.

I feel the sake way about "bochs".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochs

I'm not the author of the article, I just copied his title.

internalize?

The website looks very good in spite of the distracting ads. Good luck! Did you use a design library like bootstrap?

Thanks; we had an internal debate on wether or not to use ads, and we decided to see what happened if we included them. It is backed by bootstrap.

> It's like when someone really likes reddit. Okay, it's not HN. They can tell a complicated story about how they like cats and populist rage politics, but it's a hard negative signal to get past.

I see the parallel but your signalling system is rather poor if it penalizes someone for liking reddit.

My demo wasn't tried either (I checked everyday), nor did I have more than 4 pageviews of my video, most of which are mine.

Good luck and don't take it hard.

Have it at all occurred to you guys that some people might be running AdBlock and alike, so MixPanel/GA scripts won't even have a change to load? Hm.

Our demo was viewed 4 times yet got rejection. We were very confident and feeling pretty bad now :(

I wouldn't worry. It's not changed a single thing for us. YC is just the lamborghini. We are still going to get exactly where we need to go in our trusty wagon, we just might of got their quicker in the Lambo.

Ultimately, I don't think anything should change for anyone who got rejected.