NYT on Paul Graham's YCombinator Bootcamp

prostoalex writes "The New York Times tells the story of Paul Graham's YCombinator - a venture firm that specializes in funding early stage startups that's famour for startup bootcamps conducted twice a year in Silicon Valley and over on the East Coast. YCombinator's boot camps apparently attract a lot of employees out of major software companies, who are still young and want to run a software startup."

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What's in a name

[El Cabri]

I don't know how intentionnal it is, I assume it is intentionnal : in computer science a Y combinator is, basically, a function that takes a function as an argument and returns a fixpoint to the function. so for any function f, f(Y(f))=Y(f). Oh, what's the hell : just check out the wikipedia.