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by dzink 13y ago
I think it is more productive to focus on fixing things going forward, than trying to place blame by resurfacing or redefining stereotypes. I'd rather us spread "gateway drugs to hacking" for everyone to use regardless of gen
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by dzink 13y ago
I love these questions! Yes, I started on "Pravets" 8 and 16 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravetz_computers ) with BASIC and Pascal. We also had these robot hands you could maneuver with the Pravets machin
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by dzink 13y ago
I want to make it a go to place for people to establish and grow their identity as doers - to nurture their pursuits and benefit when they help others (If you are great at something you can mentor and invest/contribute open source in t
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by dzink 13y ago
I've been thinking about open sourcing this: http://www.doerhub.com/for/whichvc but as the primary hacker on DoerHub I haven't found the time to clean up the code. Technically, most of the code I wrote before
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by dzink 13y ago
Bulgaria is a very patriarchal country, but education up-to-and-including high-school was/is fitting for CS (math is required every year and it is a frequently chosen concentration). The same applies to many eastern european countries,
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by dzink 13y ago
These are the selling points for CS that worked really well in my conversations with 10-18 year-old girls so far (Aggregated so you can use them for your niece if you find the opportunity) : - You can do this really cool thing you wanted to
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by dzink 13y ago
Role models really help. Seeing other women around who have been successful really helps. I think if one female tech founder produces a unicorn startup that exits above 1B, the dialog will get a lot easier. It's a matter of time. I don
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by dzink 13y ago
I have presented in front of teen girls at events and mentored girls individually. The tech bug catches on best anywhere between age 8 and 14 when you see a role model for something fun you can enjoy doing that is an "gateway drug to
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by dzink 13y ago
I posted it here because I enjoy this community and I want to reduce the awkwardness of the many recent "women and tech" discussions here. I hope other female founders on HN can chime in as well.
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by dzink 13y ago
The desire to learn CS came with the need to do more on the web - the more I tinkered the more I wanted to learn. I got Flash for design but then realized I could animate with code, so I started borrowing trigonometry books from my high-sch
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by dzink 13y ago
I liked math and physics because they allowed me to predict or affect future events. I also loved design because it allowed me create things that might have never existed otherwise. CS was the perfect combination of both - you can create th
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Ask HN: Female hacker-founder AMA
151 points by dzink 13y ago|74 comments
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by dzink 13y ago
I have been going for over a year because I simply love what I am building. DoerHub is designed to help people do more together - to enable serendipity and power meaningful projects http://www.doerhub.com and http://w
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by dzink 13y ago
I've been building http://DoerHub.com for about a year and I am realizing it may be too much work for one hacker (the site is growing and I am splitting time between UX, backend, bug fixes, user acquisition features, sales,
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by dzink 13y ago
How are they "cashing out"? Once upon a time eastern european hackers used to run a IRC chats under a .CC domain. They would post a bunch of CC numbers with their info and random forum members would grab and test/empty the ca
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by dzink 13y ago
A classmate fell to his death from his apartment's terrace in a skyscraper a few months ago. We were just coming back for our second year of Grad school. He was full of life, working on a startup for which he had won some funding via a
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by dzink 13y ago
Culturally, do you see the same demands placed on you as are placed on a male peer/brother of yours? I bet when you start seeing those you will start seeing similar behavior (because I have seen it).
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by dzink 13y ago
Most of your research is from 20 years ago. Cultural norms play a huge part in this and norms have been changing (compare what you'd read about the roles of women in the 1950's vs today). My mother built one business after another
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Why I Don’t Ask “Is This a Billion Dollar Business” Before I Invest(hunterwalk.com)
1 points by dzink 13y ago|0 comments
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by dzink 13y ago
Nice execution. I saw several pitches for unifying cards while working for a VC. As a consumer I have a few suggestions: 1. Make the card switch/activation button detect the fingerprint of the owner. (The merchant or waiter sliding the
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by dzink 13y ago
Yes, I think I red it in "Ahead of the Curve" ( http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business-School/dp... ) and the author backed it up with data from the most recent tech and financial bubbles. The exa
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by dzink 13y ago
The most reliable indication of a bubble is when 30% of Harvard grads head into an industry. Top university networks are the first to sniff out unfairly strong financial returns and to take advantage.
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Samsung tried to profit from confidential Apple patent case discovery docs (theverge.com)
2 points by dzink 13y ago|1 comments
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by dzink 13y ago
A personal flying craft! A 1 or 2-person hovercraft/helicopter with AI detecting and avoiding proximity to surface and other objects for a smooth and safe flying experience (a self-piloting safe airborne people-carrier is the goal).
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by dzink 13y ago
So, who is building up your startups while you're waiting for an interview? Back to work, YC candidates! ;)
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by dzink 13y ago
Viral B2C startups don't require blogs to grow. If your business requires a blog(it requires sales), it is probably B2B, or B2C with linear growth which takes a while and is likely not done by the CEO but by staff. Thus none of the uni
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by dzink 13y ago
I co-founder is a strong word (akin to "spouse") and the best co-founders are people you have worked or studied with before. That is why I created DoerHub - so you can post your projects or see open projects and contribute to the
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by dzink 13y ago
This is a survival tactic for the consortium. If you look at the bunch - all of them have hardware businesses with margins that are getting continuously eroded by Google's "free by ads and cheap manufacturing" model. If they
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by dzink 13y ago
Great idea! Be careful about nefarious use (aka sex offenders) if that's possible.
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by dzink 13y ago
The immigration process delayed the start of my startup and I'm sure many others are facing that too. Started at 28 even though I'd been in the US since I was 19.

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