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by bluehat 14y ago
I was actually thinking a solution might be to hand out awesome buttons that say "I make stuff!" and then encourage both women and men to wear them.
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by bluehat 14y ago
OP here. Trust me. I wish there were more technical ladies. I don't enjoy being "an oddity," I've just accepted it as a part of life. Thanks for bringing up the point though, I edited the post.
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by bluehat 14y ago
OP here: I can put people in their place all day, but if my goal was to make friends, that's not the best foot to start out on. And yes, I have a lot of geeky T-shirts. I don't like the idea of having to dress a certain way to be taken seri
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This Weekend: $10K Prize to Re-Imagine the Soda Fountain(hackerdojo.com)
4 points by bluehat 14y ago|0 comments
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by bluehat 14y ago
While cleaning your home for a few hours a day is not hard physical labor, cleaning houses all day would probably not be a great job for somebody with back pain. It is certainly more physically strenuous than your average job at McDonalds,
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by bluehat 14y ago
This article just reminded me to support what is probably one of the last worthwhile news programs on air. Here's a link for you if you want to too! http://www.npr.org/about/support/
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by bluehat 14y ago
Publicly humiliating somebody is the use of mob rule to get justice instead of the existing structure we have all consented to (ie, the PyCon staff.) It also does not permit the person being humiliated to get in his or her side of the story
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by bluehat 14y ago
The action was the public humiliation of somebody she disagreed with (as he made a sexual joke and she found it inappropriate) rather than handling the matter quietly. The consequential actions included: leaving a number of her own sexual j
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by bluehat 14y ago
She obviously is not doing a good job at generating positive PR for Sendgrid. For her, this makes sense. PlayHaven though? Yeah, I lost a lot of respect for them.
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by bluehat 14y ago
Her action, and the actions she followed that action up with, caused a huge rift in the developer community. Her job is to unite the developer community and help them access the product.
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by bluehat 14y ago
FAKEGRIMLOCK is pretty much my favourite source of startup advice... so happy to see his book coming out!
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ME, FAKEGRIMLOCK: THE BOOK OF AWESOME(kickstarter.com)
8 points by bluehat 14y ago|2 comments
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by bluehat 14y ago
Your false dichotomy is unappealing. A third option (for starters) is that there are so many overreactions and mistakes in this story that there are many parties to be outraged with. The outrage isn't uniformly distributed across parties to
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by bluehat 14y ago
This is possibly one of the best things that could happen to Sendgrid, as it is likely to generate public sympathy.
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by bluehat 14y ago
Woah, woah, woah, woah. No. I can't understand why they were fired. I think it is a gross overreaction to what is, at worst, a socially correctable situation. And no, I'm not some non-elective male virgin. I'm a lady, and I find your charac
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by bluehat 14y ago
Can we start a gay bar where people make github repo forking jokes or all the drinks are named in such a scheme? I'd love to go to this bar.
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by bluehat 14y ago
As a lady I can clearly say this isn't how that situation makes me feel. Your post makes me feel ashamed though, it assumes a lot about women, that it is probably pretty offensive to homosexuals, and that it is written in an absurd and ille
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by bluehat 14y ago
Does anybody know who fired the guy? I'd like to know who I'm not doing business with anymore, that they cower to bullying so willingly instead of protecting and teaching their engineering family? Even if you believe that what they did was
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by bluehat 14y ago
Just want to say sorry, I adjust my bra in meetings from time to time. Never realized it would make anybody uncomfortable. I'll try to cut it out.
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by bluehat 14y ago
Happened to me this morning with the Coca-Cola thing. Was around #6, got bombed to the mid-80's
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by bluehat 14y ago
Don't you diss Danielle. I'll have you know she is a remarkably effective conference ho. Also nonsense is one word.
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by bluehat 14y ago
But if you really do succeed in the big ground-changing way, you can decline the prize money and keep your IP. We specifically worked that into the contract with them for this reason. I understand why people are afraid of big companies, and
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by bluehat 14y ago
Well, I guess if you have some million dollar idea and the market/human resources to produce it, you probably should do that this weekend instead. Keep up your brilliance every weekend and you could retire to some tropical island of your ch
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by bluehat 14y ago
...you want $1M for a weekend of work?
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by bluehat 14y ago
No NDAs.
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by bluehat 14y ago
If you're local, sign up and attend the info sessions on carbonation etc. Generally though, this is about understanding the technology then repackaging it for a new place and purpose, so with some business sense you should be able to hobble
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by bluehat 14y ago
I actually have called people because they won Yahoo! Hack Days and put it on their resume...
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by bluehat 14y ago
It's a huge prize by hackathon standards... how much would you think is reasonable for a team of 2-3 for a weekend of work?
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by bluehat 14y ago
And if you have a better soda fountain and don't want to sell it you can sell your product directly to bars and restaurants to compete with Coca-Cola, or sell it to Pepsi?
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by bluehat 14y ago
I'm obviously kinda biased as I'm running this on the Hacker Dojo's side, but how else would you run a hardware hackathon? Or are hackathons only for software? Are you in a position to make a company out of your alternative soda fountain, o

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