I want to take a stab on solving the parallax between what the blog author writes (which I love) and pg's comment above (which I also love.)
Most YCombinator founders (and YNews readers) are young, and venture capitalists or techcrunch readers know this. Every ounce in any skill set that shows we are competent helps sell us. Anything, be it as little as a great visual prototype, helps.
On the other hand, this article discusses how the non-silicon valley customers, managers, and investors (even Microsoft) will confuse images with reality. An even bigger problem is that the author assumes all programmers will be using a desktop programming language (with no frameworks) in most articles I've seen on that web site, not realizing that web frameworks allow anybody to have something up and running within a week. I think this advice would be more true pre-Ycombinator and pre-web framework days (in 2004.)
I trust that both observations are genuine; and, on a personal note, I prefer pg's attitude more, because I like hearing when people denounce or offer alternatives to "plan for the lowest denominator no matter what" type of business blog advice.
Most YCombinator founders (and YNews readers) are young, and venture capitalists or techcrunch readers know this. Every ounce in any skill set that shows we are competent helps sell us. Anything, be it as little as a great visual prototype, helps.
On the other hand, this article discusses how the non-silicon valley customers, managers, and investors (even Microsoft) will confuse images with reality. An even bigger problem is that the author assumes all programmers will be using a desktop programming language (with no frameworks) in most articles I've seen on that web site, not realizing that web frameworks allow anybody to have something up and running within a week. I think this advice would be more true pre-Ycombinator and pre-web framework days (in 2004.)
I trust that both observations are genuine; and, on a personal note, I prefer pg's attitude more, because I like hearing when people denounce or offer alternatives to "plan for the lowest denominator no matter what" type of business blog advice.