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Actually, I responded to the wrong post. I meant to post my reply to svachalek.

Excuse my ignorance but why is the first one parallelizable but not the second?

Curious about what the incentives are for visiting partners.

Yes, wwalser articulated this much better than me.

I think it was a combination of both. By giving them more time, they were able to revisit topics and giving new perspectives. Also, more time meant more time to get comfortable and share more intimate topics.

I really enjoyed the depth that Startup Podcast/Gimlet Media went with Dating Ring. In my opinion, there's a lot of great content you can cover in an hour but it's hard to cover new content given how many other podcasts there are.

That's a great point. I've heard of some smaller companies (compose, elephantsql) but to be honest, I have definitely not considered them. The reason is that I just want all inclusive solution and I don't have much context for these companies. How healthy they are, what's the likelyhood of them going out of business, etc.

I think you bring up a good point. I'm going to put aside my bias and give a smaller company a shot. Thanks for sharing.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. It used to be the case that Heroku is/was built on EC2. They also offered a managed database (Heroku Postgres) built on EC2. Do you mean they're a partner because they're building a product on top of EC2?

I'm fairly impressed by RDS's turn around time. 9.6 dropped in late September and they're already supporting it in just over a month. I wish Google Cloud SQL supported Postgres at all. Sad that there's limited competition in managed postgres space (most notable competitor being Heroku).

I personally think you are better off trying to learn this on your own. It seems like you have the enthusiasm. It sounds like you're also unhappy with where you work. You could try changing jobs to something where you have lots of free time (good/work life balance, no commute) and work on learning to code. Coding boot camps are very web development focused.

I suspect you don't know many of the Ruby core committers. They're an incredibly jovial bunch. Aaron loves puns and word play, just check out his twitter feed: https://twitter.com/@tenderlove. After rereading it, I can see why their sense of humor may have been lost in transcription.

I do. Support is definitely there for me but I mostly do Ruby/javascript. YMMV.

Hey Init! Congrats on the launch.

Curious, have you funded any startups under Init? If I had to guess, "Our Startups" are startups you (Garry / Alexis /et al) personally invested in.

It would nice if they shared the 30 -> 1 line change.

Congratulations to the Sourcegraph team on shipping this new update. It looks great.

Back when Sourcegraph supported Ruby, I found myself reaching it for all the time. It was slightly half baked (semantic analysis of Ruby is challenging) but still incredibly useful. I look forward to the day Ruby support returns and it being better than ever.

Slightly unrelated, if you're based in the Bay Area, you should go to their meetup. I don't like going to meetups because the content is usually a bit fluffy but they've constantly had strong technical speakers. Here's one with the creator of Raft (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dfSOFqOhOU).

If I can make a recommendation, you should try making a video instead.

I found these statistics to be very helpful.

I'll be honest, I have my own misconceptions about YC and it's put me at an impasse of wanting to apply.

1.) From what you read, it seems like everyone has a positive experience. At least in my network, that doesn't seem to be true. I'm not applying the logic that it sucked for X, therefore it must suck for everyone. I just want to know who YC works best for and who it doesn't. After all, the old adage goes, if you're selling to everyone, you're selling to no one.

2.) Following up on that point, I thought very few enterprise startups did YC and that YC would be weak in that category. From the stats, it seems like a majority of startups were enterprise focused! But, the standard YC terms kinda suck for enterprise startups. If your ACV is +$100k, why raise $120k for 7%?

3.) When is the right time to apply? Taking some thinking from pg, you should make 100% focus your customers and product. If I needed to raise $ now and wasn't accepted into YC, I would just go try raise money at that moment. Seems odd to hold out and keep trying.

Once again, I think most of my points are misunderstandings about how YC works. I don't think this should help reflect anyone else's decision to apply. I think it's very likely that I will apply to YC. I just wanted to get some of my thoughts out.

There's a lot of good feedback here for both sides. The only thing I want to reiterate is that success isn't defined by employed by the big four. There are companies that embark on more interesting engineering challenges or pay more. Big four is a measure of status, not success. I don't think you've defined what you want well enough to quit because you're not being hired by the big four.

Dear YC, please include real estate as a category. You have many fine companies in this space.

Read through the Rust book and really enjoyed it. Curious when you think the next rewrite will be done.

Did I miss something?

"We understand that Taylor and his co-founder, ex-Googler Kevin Gibbs, will both be staying on post-acquisition."

My cofounder and I were hoping to attend startup school. Surprisingly, we don't have a name or a URL but we do have a prototype and interested customers! Is there any good way to batch our applications together?

Hey Hacksonx,

If you're planning a career as Java developer, I highly recommend this book. Sandi is a great writer and Ruby is just a tool to communicate a message. You'll gain a lot of insight about how to write great Java by reading any of her books or articles.

What's the difference between soylent 1.x and 2.y?

Check out RubyBench. https://rubybench.org

Hey Plaid, interested user here! I'm curious why you don't have any pricing on your web page. I'm just trying to do a back of the envelope calculation on how much it would cost to use your service.

Source graph does this but now supports many languages.

Sorry, I don't know. I don't really use Firebase.

You can use any Google Cloud product with Firebase so you have access to Cloud Functions. https://cloud.google.com/functions/

He's written a post about how he defined CTO role at Stripe (http://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role-at-st...). I imagine he'll approaching the role similarly.