Please don't use tinyurl or other URL shorteners. Pleople want to see the actual the link, and the posting software can handle long URLs nicely anyway.
Though I normally would agree with you, Tinyurl was fundamental to the point of this person's post. So much so that even before clicking the random Tinyurl I thought to myself, "Nobody would tinyurl something in this context, it must link back to Y-Com."
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$10K? That probably wouldn't pay for a single programmer's efforts to do this...essentially you'll be working for Microsoft for free.
Hell Microsoft, at least do like Netflix and make the prize something worth pursuing.
Almost as big of a ripoff as that company that gives you less than 20,000 bucks for a 2-10% steak in your company:
http://tinyurl.com/yb74jsr
Or maybe both of these deals have other less tangible benefits to the people who end up winning.
Please don't use tinyurl or other URL shorteners. Pleople want to see the actual the link, and the posting software can handle long URLs nicely anyway.
Though I normally would agree with you, Tinyurl was fundamental to the point of this person's post. So much so that even before clicking the random Tinyurl I thought to myself, "Nobody would tinyurl something in this context, it must link back to Y-Com."
yeah YC does love it's steaks...
here is the difference, with YC, you actually have your own company at the end. YC gives you 20K when you have nothing.
In this case, you get $0...and only if you hit a homerun, do you get $10K.
Completely different