I would not recommend using it as a model.

I know you meant well, but I'd appreciate it if people didn't post applications for the current cycle on News.YC, or the site will be overwhelmed with "critique my application" links.

Inability to absorb too many details verbally = personal fortitude to insist that others show a modium of discipline and occasionally write down what they want

Inability to multi-task = ability to focus

Inability to manage or even to “see” certain classes of “mundane” details = ability to distinguish the difference between and "issue" and a "detail"

Inability to organize = lack of the need to organize because of intense focus on the most important thing

Capable of working through entire books of information because of the ability to distinguish between "issues" and "details" (see above)

Capable of coming up with pretty good project ideas on his own = creativity

unusual degree of empathy = understands the "big picture"

Faults tend not to show up terribly badly but only to those tuned in to the "superficial", not the "important"

If he can team up with... = understands synergy

Is this guy sick? = a one eyed man in the land of the blind

The comic is basically saying "haha... PHP developers don't understand a bunch of .NET buzzwords."

Anyway it reminds me of what Borges said about Argentina and the UK going to war over the Falkands/Malvinas: "Like two bald men fighting over a comb."

If an applicant sees filling out a form to be a major challenge that requires a model to work from, then how is said applicant going to cope with running a company?

You can't use it on a plane because no one wants to be forced to hear someone talk on the phone for an entire 2+ hour flight and we certainly dont want to hear people on planes talking over each other.