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Ask HN: Who is applying to YC Winter 2010?

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Are you applying to YC Winter 2010? If yes, have you applied yet? If not, why?

I applied to this past summer, but won't be applying this winter. I (and the people I applied with) graduated, and got jobs. Well, they did. For some reason, my resume must be screaming "don't hire". So no co-founder. Also, I can't seem to be happy with an idea, and "find a problem and ask if it can be fixed" doesn't seem to come up with anything for me. Also also, I've never been happy with my coding abilities, so the lack of confidence is an issue.

Maybe being a wage slave for a year will -- like when I worked full-time before grad school -- drive me insane enough to necessitate doing something else, and I'll decide to go the YC route.

Not being content with your coding ability is healthy and natural. There will always be a better way to do something. This is the learning process, and great developers never stop learning.

Being a "wage slave" is not as bad as you might think. It might give you ideas and expose you to problems that need solutions.

>Not being content with your coding ability is healthy and natural.

That's true. I wonder if realizing that and still feeling like one's sub-par is also natural.

It is natural. This is because you take your skill seriously, so you'll always be trying to improve at it. It's true for other walks of life too (music, athletics, etc.)

I have ideas/ I hope to be able to hammer then down to something that first I can fully envision not to mention others/ I, like zck, am not sure that my brain can come up with the needed 0/1's to make it work but also i hate the current position I am in and hope to make one of my ideas into something someday- so to wrap it up yes i would like to apply if I can muster the time to scrap blueprints together, and if not submitting this round ill put forth something soon

I'll be applying this winter. Have not applied yet, because I'm still racing out the MVP.

interested in applying. need to find co-founders. know c, c++, c#. familiar with lisp, scheme, java. currently living in la.

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