People who can dress somewhat competently and/or wear the current fashion are hipsters? You are making no sense. All I see are a bunch of normally dressed people. Nothing special.
I guess only two people were looking forward to getting their 'video' taken and came prepared: the guy with the Rubik's cube and the blonde girl with the flowers.
Genuine question: is girl perceived as a derogatory term? If so, what should someone use? Woman feels very formal to me. What's the female equivalent of "guy" if not "girl"?
I think girl is perfectly acceptable in this context, but if you want to be politically correct and informal, you could use gal. My rule is use girl wherever I'd use guy/dude, and woman wherever I'd use man.
I'm not sure why "girl" is seen as derogatory, especially since I've never met a woman who minded it. This is a broad generalization, but in my experience, the only ones that seem to mind are adolescents who would prefer to be called a woman over girl because this differentiation matters to them. Women are usually secure about their adulthood, and don't feel threatened being called a girl in an informal setting. While girl technically refers to a child or an immature woman, in common slang, it has simply become the female equivalent of "guy."
Of course, "chick," "babe," etc are derogatory because they are slang meant to objectify/sexualize the woman. I don't feel the same is true of "girl."
I find it fascinating though how such a simple word can be interpreted in so many ways, and can completely change the tone of a sentence.
I have to say I saw a very similar thing with people throwing cushions around on a graduate recruitment page in about 2008 - sure it was Flash, but the end result was the same.
I took me a little while to realize but you can drag the video left and right. There's loads more people if you keep going. Which makes it even more impressive.
I suspect that a real hipster wouldn't be seen dead working for Kickstarter, they're so mainstream these days.
Aside: I was watching Austin Powers the other day (it's fun, sue me)- Dr. Evil calls Austin an "aging hipster", using the actual real real definition of the term. Funny how words can change in a relatively short space of time.
Define "real real definition". My understanding is that "hipster" was original a jazz subculture term from the 40s; as "hip" came to be a more popular term than "hep", people who used to be "hep cats" became "hipsters".
Wikipedia agrees with you. This is a term that has undergone so many transformations in such a short time that it's completely pointless to argue about its "true" meaning anymore.
That, I believe, is the definition intended in the movie. From wikipedia:
" The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes."
That doesn't describe the Powers character entirely, but it would sort of fit Dr. Evil's own 'un-hip, aged' attitude towards the 60's.
And that this point I am going to stop cross-examining comedy movies on HN.
It looks pretty much exactly the same as I remember it. For instance, the guy in the EchoNest t-shirt, if I recall someone from EchoNest offered him a new version of the t-shirt last time.
I feel the same way. The only one that didn't bother me at first was the one tossing the apple back and forth. I think the correctness of gravity in reverse was enough misdirection to distract me.
I often see articles about a lack of women in tech, but in fact I see even far fewer African Americans and to some extent Latin Americans. This company is one example. Another example: http://pivotallabs.com/team/
> We're a team of 46 in NYC with offices in the Lower East Side. Half of us work on the product (designing and coding), and the other half work with the community. We love what we do, and who we do it with.
Judging from my previous experiences in the tech world, I would guess that the non-community aspects are mostly filled by the males on the picture
Even with personal experience, I've worked with far more female engineers/developers in the United States than African American/Latin American engineers/developers combined.
It's a shame that patriciomolina's comment [0] is dead. It was a good catch!
"Nice! Did anyone notice the two guys portraying Plato and
Aristotle in the famous paint "The School of Athens" made by
Raphael? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Athens "
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I'm sadly inept at dressing competently, so I envy those finely dressed people.
Nothing to worry about :)
Anyone with that kind of hardware must be punished for their excess with ugly layouts.
I'm not sure why "girl" is seen as derogatory, especially since I've never met a woman who minded it. This is a broad generalization, but in my experience, the only ones that seem to mind are adolescents who would prefer to be called a woman over girl because this differentiation matters to them. Women are usually secure about their adulthood, and don't feel threatened being called a girl in an informal setting. While girl technically refers to a child or an immature woman, in common slang, it has simply become the female equivalent of "guy."
Of course, "chick," "babe," etc are derogatory because they are slang meant to objectify/sexualize the woman. I don't feel the same is true of "girl."
I find it fascinating though how such a simple word can be interpreted in so many ways, and can completely change the tone of a sentence.
Aside: I was watching Austin Powers the other day (it's fun, sue me)- Dr. Evil calls Austin an "aging hipster", using the actual real real definition of the term. Funny how words can change in a relatively short space of time.
" The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes."
That doesn't describe the Powers character entirely, but it would sort of fit Dr. Evil's own 'un-hip, aged' attitude towards the 60's.
And that this point I am going to stop cross-examining comedy movies on HN.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703735
A quick observation: the discussion thread forming here is very similar to the previous one.
The comments on the other thread (including the ones about the guy in the Echo Nest shirt) all seem to be valid on this iteration as well.
Judging from my previous experiences in the tech world, I would guess that the non-community aspects are mostly filled by the males on the picture
The team does not seem racially diverse either. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042739