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Hmm. I guess the N stands for "ninja". Probably full of brogrammers. No thanks.


You're getting downvoted, but I couldn't take it seriously either with both Spartans and ninjas. Why not just go the distance and throw in rockstars, a big X in a word like eXtreme and the other stuff I see on the back of my Doritos?


Definitely pretty far from brogrammers :). Just want to build a support community to foster startups. Ideas, and startups are fragile. Might as well do anything that'll give us a fair shot. No reason to hate :)


No hate intended. I wanted to express the disconnect between the stated goal of the project and the unstated positioning that the design and terminology conveys.


The N stands for "Nice"


Heh, I thought it was a variable name, i.e. ncombinator let's you combine N people...




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