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This is great! Though I'm not entirely sure why she's loitering around on the Google MTV campus in those pictures captioned San Francisco :/

Melting_Harps 6y ago
> This is great! Though I'm not entirely sure why she's loitering around on the Google MTV campus in those pictures captioned San Francisco :/ PR? I mean San Francisco evokes the thought of people's image of Silicon Valley (perhaps more so than the vast homeless situation and the vast economic divide that actually afflicts it) way more than if you say Mountain View, or Palo Alto for most people not in tech or in California for that matter. And quite frankly that's who this story appeals to: non-tech people. I've seen plenty of very attractive woman (of all races) who joined SCCA sanctioned racing events via their school's Engineering program with a bunch of nerdy t-shirts. I heard one yell 'Leeroooooooooy Jenkins' in the pits at an autocross/drifting event back in 2005! I also used to go to the 24-hour marathon Hackathons at CU Boulder and saw the same thing. Lots of them were from out state and country teams, too. After 2013 or so the Bitcoin 'Blockchain' Industry got inundated by finance and bank brain-drains and it wasn't uncommon to see very attractive woman from the banking Industry get in the space. How much they actually knew of the underlying tech, rather than some tired line about 'disrupting the financial products Industry' is another matter, but to be fair that's the case with most males, too. And these weren't just booth babes handing out schwag, but were actual employees. I still remember turning down the lone programmer at her booth handing me a 21 shirt because she couldn't/wouldn't tell me what tech they were working on at the Bitcoin Job Faire in Sunnyvale in 2015. I saw her later after Blaji's 'BUIDL' talk after the hackathon and we had a laugh about it. But this really a fluff non-story, but welcomed given the depressing amount of news this year so far, and while I'm not saying tech is a 50/50 equal ratio of male-female. I'm not really buying the narrative of this being some unicorn either. I guess the notable thing being she still spent most of her Life, and likely lots of her family's money, in that pageant circuit and can now try and make it back programming?

Melting_Harps 6y ago

> This is great! Though I'm not entirely sure why she's loitering around on the Google MTV campus in those pictures captioned San Francisco :/ PR? I mean San Francisco evokes the thought of people's image of Silicon Valley (perhaps more so than the vast homeless situation and the vast economic divide that actually afflicts it) way more than if you say Mountain View, or Palo Alto for most people not in tech or in California for that matter. And quite frankly that's who this story appeals to: non-tech people. I've seen plenty of very attractive woman (of all races) who joined SCCA sanctioned racing events via their school's Engineering program with a bunch of nerdy t-shirts. I heard one yell 'Leeroooooooooy Jenkins' in the pits at an autocross/drifting event back in 2005! I also used to go to the 24-hour marathon Hackathons at CU Boulder and saw the same thing. Lots of them were from out state and country teams, too. After 2013 or so the Bitcoin 'Blockchain' Industry got inundated by finance and bank brain-drains and it wasn't uncommon to see very attractive woman from the banking Industry get in the space. How much they actually knew of the underlying tech, rather than some tired line about 'disrupting the financial products Industry' is another matter, but to be fair that's the case with most males, too. And these weren't just booth babes handing out schwag, but were actual employees. I still remember turning down the lone programmer at her booth handing me a 21 shirt because she couldn't/wouldn't tell me what tech they were working on at the Bitcoin Job Faire in Sunnyvale in 2015. I saw her later after Blaji's 'BUIDL' talk after the hackathon and we had a laugh about it. But this really a fluff non-story, but welcomed given the depressing amount of news this year so far, and while I'm not saying tech is a 50/50 equal ratio of male-female. I'm not really buying the narrative of this being some unicorn either. I guess the notable thing being she still spent most of her Life, and likely lots of her family's money, in that pageant circuit and can now try and make it back programming?