Remember that no matter how you code, there are always both better and worse ways of doing it.

Don't get too polarized about the language you start out with. All programming languages have pros and cons.

When coding, Don't Repeat Yourself, use source control, and learn to be independent and resourceful by looking up stuff on your own instead of looking for someone to ask about it.

Also, I find verbs to be overused in English, whether for intent, desire, location, hypothetical situations or other stuff. Some extra adverbial suffixes would be a nice alternative.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9127044

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# Comments: 56

I'd probably go for Backbone, Underscore, Zepto and/or Bootstrap.

Also, YC isn't just about getting "sweet sweet" money, it's also about commitment, many times to the point of collapse due to overwork. This may be a worthwhile tradeoff for you, but it doesn't mean that whoever is critical towards the way YC works is actually broke and bitter. I'm actually quite confident that HN has a sizable population of mature, fulfilled and well-off readers who have better things to do than to pick on the unsuccessful.

Not to mention that many young people are in way over their heads when getting into this, and lack the experience necessary to come out on top. Some pull through, but in this case it was clear more or less from the start that it wasn't the case.

No one's envious nor blaming them for being too young or with half-baked ideas, it's understood that young people are naturally less adept at things. My impression is that they're rather criticizing YC for using inexperienced youngsters as fodder for investors, for just dumping responsibility on them, then leaving them to do the sweating and feel like hell for getting in without a clear plan.

Before being judgemental and assuming the worst about people, maybe you should stop and evaluate your own negativistic projections.

Some such businesses may work, like job recruitment, but I think it's mostly because the weaker side (the unemployed) doesn't have much to lose.

I don't know though, the guy seems quite dishonest to me, more interested in means rather than ends, yet still claiming that he "never wanted to start a company simply for the sake of starting a company". To me, he never seemed to question whether he even had anything to give in the first place and address this issue first, if needed, but simply expected to run a successful startup fresh out of college.

Not sure I'd call his closing statements to be humblebragging though, it seems to be just a passing thing for him.

As for remembering which sites have what restrictions, I can keep that stuff in my head (looking at you Microsoft), but I guess you may have more accounts than me. Then again, when a password fails, then all you'd have to do is retry with a safer version (and maybe only have two password kinds, for convenience - full-blown char support, and minimalistic lowercase-letters only, so you'd only have to retry a single time after the first failed login).

Personally, my biggest problem with this card is that it doesn't provide enough value.

This wouldn't provide cipher encoding, but someone already mentioned https://www.passwordcard.org/, and as you said, this is for the rest of us.