digg worked out ok. there's always an exception.

vlad · on April 27, 2008

To be fair, the guy who coded the digg site posted right here on News.YC that he thought the entire time that he was part of the team.

Although this comment by a digg developer who joined them in 2005 says Owyn (the original developer) fared well, however.

dcurtis · on April 28, 2008

Right, there are always exceptions. But you shouldn't give advice based on exceptional cases.

nazgulnarsil · on April 28, 2008

doesn't this invalidate all advice since only statistics can give non-anecdotal advice?

swombat · on April 28, 2008

If you give advice about anecdotal cases, you should package it with advice about how to make that exception situation arise again.

If you don't know why it went well despite poor odds, don't give advice :-P