I'm sort of surprised to see you're getting downvoted by all the greedy wanna-be zillionaire founders. If they had any brains, they'd be the ones developing this compression code and getting the million-dollar bonuses.
Hah yeah I was surprised by the downvotes. My point was that if you were in finance, these sorts of numbers generate massive bonus'...but not in other fields sadly.
FYI - Indians who have emigrated to the Americas are known as Indian-Americans, while Native Americans (who were here before any of us) assume the title of American Indians.
Do you really disagree with brokenmachine's premise that poor English makes communication impossible?
Or is it, rather, that Sam and YC {and venture capital in general}, by proxy through you, are annoyed at decreasing access to low-wage workers from a developing country notorious for unintelligible accents?
Pretty sure I have no low-wage worker agenda, but perhaps you see the dark corners of my soul.
From a moderation point of view, it's not a question of disagreeing. We can agree with someone and still ask them to stop. In fact that's common. In this case it was about asking people not to go on offtopically about peeves, because that's not interesting, and also about HN being an international community. Respect across national divides is important here.
But, how are posters on HN supposed to get upvotes if they don't say something alarming/negative? Positive comments are explicitly discouraged in the "community guidelines." Perhaps we should consider whether sama or pg had a greater influence on that.
Yep. This article seems like yet another of MIT's attempts to aggrandize its "scientific reputation" in every field, even when the 'insights' gained are obvious or non-novel.
