The Grace of Y - and Y the programmer should never die.
Paul Graham and I were both correct. I posted the above submission a couple years ago. Today, my invention, Open Platform as a Service(tm) is arguably one of the hottest things on the Web in the space. If you don't want to read the whole post/rant, here is the gist. I applied to Y in 2011 with Open Platform as a Service and got rejected. Fine. But Y provided no feedback on why even when asked. I thought that was ridiculous to not even give a single sentence as to why you are not accepted as how does that help programmers? So of course I did what a lot of programmers would do, I ranted about :) Not the rejection, the zero feedback rationale. So what is the lesson. At the end of the day, Y is great. Not because they miss or hit, Paul acknowledges they miss things. Y is great because they know they miss and they communicate that should not stop you. They even let the developer post critical comments on same. So did I come back to say I was right and Y was wrong? No. We were both right. The take away is never die the first time. "Two, three, four, five, time to stay alive." Brian Sullivan, Inventor Open Platform as a Service(tm)