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by bdr 16y ago
Sexism makes it harder for women to do certain things that they might want to do. Creating a reliable women-only space could address some of that difficulty. I'm very skeptical of your claim that naysayers would eliminate the utility of suc
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by bdr 16y ago
How about a women-only hacker space? That might create more female founders (of any age) in the long-term. Also, one thing Tereza mentioned, that "women who start businesses like to know what they’re doing", could be seen more as a problem
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by bdr 16y ago
That's after pmarca let the cat out of the bag on Charlie Rose.
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by bdr 16y ago
Yegge plays Villa-Lobos? That's so cool. For those of you who skipped over that part of the post... listen to this etude and tell me it's not badass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCR0aMeo8g -- and don't bail before the middle tremolo
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by bdr 16y ago
Browsers are the platform, not the app, equivalent to OS backwards compatibility.
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by bdr 16y ago
I want one!
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by bdr 16y ago
If you set "showdead" in your profile, you'll see all this stuff. I'm not a moderator, but I can confirm that there was a front-page anti-Posterous story that got killed, and then there was a very highly voted "Ask HN" about that story gett
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by bdr 16y ago
That's because people don't know why they feel things. The feeling comes first (e.g., being attracted to someone) and then we make up a satisfying rational explanation for it.
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Tell HN: East Bay meetup this Wednesday
23 points by bdr 16y ago|7 comments
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by bdr 16y ago
Subscribe it to relevant RSS feeds.
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by bdr 16y ago
Weird, those pages looked really different before... I think.
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by bdr 16y ago
I made a Google Group to coordinate http://groups.google.com/group/east-bay-hacker-news
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by bdr 16y ago
Right now it seems I'm the only person besides the creator signed up for the AVC meetup http://www.meetup.com/AVC/11502/ .
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by bdr 16y ago
I'm a member of Berkeley Coworking, at Ashby & Shattuck. It's a good place for meetings. There'd be no need to buy coffee, but cafes nearby if you wanted to.
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by bdr 16y ago
I'm there now! Email me if you want to meet up. </old_school_loopt>
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by bdr 16y ago
Note that you can also construct arbitrary-length buffalo sentences without using the proper noun.
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by bdr 16y ago
I love it because the sentence itself resembles an oyster.
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by bdr 16y ago
Or at least some specialized subcomponent.
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by bdr 16y ago
The Iraq invasion was originally "Operation Iraqi Liberation" -- O.I.L.
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Economic analysis of LeBron's options(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by bdr 16y ago|0 comments
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by bdr 16y ago
I'm having this problem, but can read the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by bdr 16y ago
Who cares about the Nook? There's only one competing product on Amazon's mind at this point (I'm guessing).
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by bdr 16y ago
Notice how my claim refers to the actual contents of the post, while your response refers to your intentions when writing it. Just trying to help.
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by bdr 16y ago
Not trying to be rude, but it seems like the piece does devote more space to defending single founder startups than offering advice. I think that's why I'm not alone in responding to it on that level.
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by bdr 16y ago
There's always been progress! It's true that one person can do a lot with all those new tools, but two people can do more.
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by bdr 16y ago
That doesn't make sense. You can't estimate risk by looking only at the number of survivors.
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by bdr 16y ago
You can read at least some of his arguments at http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html . What in there would you say is refuted by this article?
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The Battle of Cannae(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bdr 16y ago|0 comments
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by bdr 16y ago
>>> Emily Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'Emily' is not defined
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by bdr 16y ago
I heard they tried to make him be a sysadmin.

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