Patrick Johnson

Product Designer, Builder.

[Patrick Johnson @pmjohnson]

Naivety can be good. New approaches to problems that are hard to get to when you have the baggage of existing systems knowledge.

But this does not apply generally. For instance, even now you'd not back a non-programmer working on a new programming language.

The truth is more boring.

Founders are best when they can dedicate 100% of their force at a problem for long periods of time.

People tend to shack up and have kids by their early-mid 30s. It doesn't mean you can't be an exceptional founder. It's just harder.

And to be clear, my assumption is YC doesn't factor this in at all. It's the cause that produces the effect YC discerns.

Not: This founder has kids, they'll be distracted.

But: This founder doesn't seem 100% in.

YC isn't just for recent college grads. Those just get a lot of attention because it's remarkable.

If you don't apply to YC because you think you won't get in, you're right.

I got into YC. I broke lots of so-called 'rules': Parent, 30, no college, non-technical CEO, no FANG, Not SF based.

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@sflorimm I turned 30 at YC. Now I gotta think, 4 months later and I'd have been put out to pasture.

[Patrick Johnson @pmjohnson]

@karrisaarinen @jorilallo Bad news: Linear = Superhuman.
Notion = Gmail.

It's all been a lie. Good while it lasted. /s

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That said, before I went on my rant, Git is the right tool for this. It just needs to be completely abstracted away.

I thought about building this many many times. But assumed @vercel would solve this problem and bake it into a desktop version of https://t.co/PhvC5Dfx39 or something.

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As someone who has used Github extensively over the past 3 months. But would consider myself borderline technical - I Hate Github.

I hate the git terminology too. It's all backwards.

Pull? from the perspective of the developer you're pushing.

Why is master left of new.

Up and right should be prod/master. Everything feeds towards that.

It's so counter-intuitive, it's like it was designed to be excluding.

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@nikitabier @Hightv @allegrajacchia @X It’s amazing how much the word ‘just’ and ‘your’ change how this feels.

Without, it feels like an apology, ownership.

With, it’s patronizing blame. Might as well end with ‘you dumb idiot’.

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@cafreiman For you, yes. But not those in the bottom 1%

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@nikitabier @ayaboch If you had codex it would be 12.

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@sirihumor_2 @aaronp613 I’m not saying it will be Lake Tahoe. I’m saying this will be a performance and stability release so will probably be something like “Lake Tahoe”.

With Sierra and High Sierra the photos were both of mountains.

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@sirihumor_2 @aaronp613 Sierra - High Sierra

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@korulang @thdxr Because you're upset with the new policy (above) or because you're upset the policy needs to be stated?

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@kr0der

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@kr0der

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@sirihumor_2 @aaronp613 Apple has a history of introducing performance and reliability releases with names that include the previous version.

Leopard - Snow Leopard
Lion - Mountain Lion
Sierra - High Sierra

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@Alphonste @not_ellington @nico_laqua It’s not important. No matter what they do, their contribution will be incremental not transformational.

They could capture the entire market, be the first $10T dollar company, and it still wouldn’t be important.

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@not_ellington @nico_laqua He both described it as a humanity defining category and the equivalent of an AI form filler.

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@jhouse678 @EWipper13 @redpillb0t She’s not taking her prescribed medication. That’s the problem.

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@LagrimaChristi @EWipper13 @redpillb0t Google: evaporative cooling.

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@EWipper13 @redpillb0t How the fuck do you go about your day and survive?

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@redpillb0t It’s not that much water.

They’re not predominantly in drought areas.

They pay for the water.

They reuse the water.

You flush drinking water down your toilet.

This is the stupidest argument against data centers.