I'm not a violent person. But patent trolls make me have visions of dungeons and medieval tools...

They're like parasites that try to find the optimal amount of blood that they can suck out of healthy businesses without killing them.

Novartis having the moral high ground in a lawsuit is rare enough that that alone should give you pause as to how low these people really are.

There are times that I wished I was a Catholic so I could condemn types like this - and mr. McBride - to hell.

Failing that, debtors prison would be fine with me as well.

The strange thing about this article is I read the first patch of job descriptions and I thought you were poised to make fun of them - not the latter one.

Those first descriptions make me wonder if it's really OK to run the same startup template again and again, even if you say that it makes you "human". I expect to read that first job description amongst a million three-person startups - besides maybe the profitable part. Is that really who you are? The cool start-up?

The inability to show discernible qualities in this kind of company kinda worries me as it comes to differentiating yourself in product - are you also the same company that's the next Google that can do better SEO and just loves that Lean Startup philosophy? I mean, they're all real and we want to do them, but what does that mean? At least those automated, robotic startups aren't pretending to be something else. They're automated machines. But if your straightforward nap-centric job description is trying to adhere to a standard professed in this forum, I wonder about your true ability to imbue the unique competitive advantages that will ultimately make you successful.

In agreement with what Zed is saying, you would be shocked by the number of companies, YC companies especially, who use Orbited (www.orbited.org) but never ever mention it, contribute a patch, offer me a job, or really add anything of value to the project.

Great, that's their prerogative... its MIT licensed software. But I can tell you, after this sort of interaction for years, I no longer invest my time in Orbited, and instead I bill $250/hr to share my expertise with consumer facing internet startup companies.

One actual data point to add this discussion anyway.

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