jhchen
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Comment · 4 years ago
IIRC they were random letters that do not occur naturally in English words, in order to serve as easily searchable annotation/footnote identifiers. He somewhat already knew they were extra details that would not make it to the main body. Later these get changed [1], [2], etc but you don't want to use these at the outset due to possible reordering/deleting.
Source: I was one of the founders of Stypi and we asked him when porting the data from Etherpad to Stypi.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/yc-funded-stypi-is-etherpa...
Comment · 4 years ago
In a lot of situations, no additional time is spent (and thus wasted). This happens with advisors in the general case too: they become an advisor and never meet again.
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
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Our product helps teams easily create, organize, and discover knowledge across the entire company, from non-technical to tech-savvy. Each day, thousands of customers rely on Slab across their entire workforces, including Asana, Benchling, and Fivetran.
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Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, Lyft not being YC is is mostly it but also from an early Stripe employee [1]: "Lyft was also not originally on Stripe. They were on Braintree and switched over to Stripe after both Stripe and Balanced (another YC-funded payments company) competed for their business." Balanced was definitely a payments company also backed by YC. I cannot verify the switching from Braintree as I'm mostly an observer in all this but the other details are easily verifiable.
Comment · 4 years ago
At first https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784882173255680 seemed pretty damning but if you hover over the dates of the HN posts, the title attribute shows the timestamp, and it would appear Stripe's came in a couple hours before Bolt's. Add in Lyft and the "facts" around this story really seem to fall apart.
Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
Slab | Software Engineer | REMOTE (Worldwide) | Full-time
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Our product helps teams easily create, organize, and discover knowledge across the entire company, from non-technical to tech-savvy. Each day, thousands of customers rely on Slab across their entire workforces, including Asana, Benchling, and Fivetran.
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[1]: Why we use Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/11/17/real-time-collaborat...
Comment · 5 years ago
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[1]: Why we use Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/11/17/real-time-collaborat...
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