Jesse Schell: "I think we killed them all, cause that's how we roll." http://storify.com/devonvsmith/games-for-change-jesse-schell... P.S. The whole talk is worth listening to when it eventually comes out.
Oh duh, I read the "with" as "as". Thx.
How does a non-technical single founder get "recognized as one of the smartest technical folks on HN"? Other than that, enlightening post.
Very happy to see this launch. I'm happy staying on the East coast, but if NewME ever launches something in NY I'd love to be a part of it. My only quibble is with this: "Without successful exits from minority-led…
I don't fault myself or anyone else. I think it's just something that happens naturally when a large group of people dominate an industry. If this were a hip hop board, we might be talking about how long it took Far…
I think the first two reasons affect everyone pretty equally, but the 3rd rings pretty true in a couple ways. I was lucky enough to attend several city schools with serious technology programs/curricula. This included…
I would love to give it another chance then. My biggest regret about how things went down is that I missed a lot of the cool, web-based stuff that was going on all these years (I was 15 back in 2000/2001). I was…
No, because IRC wasn't the only place to seek knowledge. I continued to peruse other parts of the internet that didn't allow such blatant racism to slide. Beyond my C++ classes, I was also on a FIRST Robotics team. I…
Somewhat off-topic: I had my first experience with IRC at 15. I'd recently discovered fansubbing and wanted to find subbed copies of the yet-un-aired in America episodes of Sailormoon. Some of the guys in my C++ class…
Do you feel the same way about Jisho (http://jisho.org/)? I generally find it handy.
I don't follow football, but I do watch the superbowl, and I frequently see teams with black head coaches on the field. It's easy to pretend there are no barriers, or that the barriers are related to talent, but whether…
I've received a lot of backhanded compliments in my life (i.e. you're pretty for a dark skinned girl) and they are annoying but I don't think this was one of them. To me it read like, "you're awesome, and the fact that…
Depends on what you mean by "stealth". If stealth means spending over a year and a boatload of cash developing a product without ever getting any feedback from any potential customers, then yeah, that's likely a dead…
You are missing my point. The comment isn't about me. It's about men who have these old-fashioned expectations of women, but don't reciprocate by fulfilling the traditional role for a man. That is, if I have to sit…
Someone should point back to this article every time there is a discussion about the lack of women/blacks/latinos in tech. I don't generally go into a situation thinking people are looking to exclude me, but I've…
You're right, women DON'T have to feel like prostitutes because the options for women have greatly expanded. We no longer have to be confined to the "traditional" roles that encourage us to be passive doormats content…
Then party like it's 1950. ETA: With the growing number of men who refuse to pick up every check, plan every date/event, act as sole provider for the family, purchase gifts regularly for their other half, etc. for fear…
Thing is, when you're job hunting you don't get ANY feedback 99% of the time. I don't actually mind negative feedback because then you know where and how to improve. What bothers me is how much of the job-seeking…
Mestizo, typically.
There are black people all over Latin America. During the slave trade, about 60% of slaves wound up in Portuguese and Spanish America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#New_World_...
Gap, eBay, Home Depot: all companies that still deliver rather consistent value to customers (if not to investors looking for a quick flip). A startup doesn't have to be new and shiny to turn a profit. Sometimes I…
Thanks for the response. I'm very concerned about the state of education in inner cities, but often I see arguments that use IQ in relation to Asian Americans as a reason why students in the black/latino communities…
I'm pretty sure I know what you're getting at, but do you mind expounding on your thoughts previous to discovering this information?
Actually, I read the study some time ago, and am very familiar with it's findings. My response was to your specific comment here: "there was a belief that the school should take care of everything (Parents didn't…
I'm familiar with the study and generally give it more weight than other studies by people who dip in and out of the black community solely to collect data. That said, I don't think it's entirely wrong to think that if…
Jesse Schell: "I think we killed them all, cause that's how we roll." http://storify.com/devonvsmith/games-for-change-jesse-schell... P.S. The whole talk is worth listening to when it eventually comes out.
Oh duh, I read the "with" as "as". Thx.
How does a non-technical single founder get "recognized as one of the smartest technical folks on HN"? Other than that, enlightening post.
Very happy to see this launch. I'm happy staying on the East coast, but if NewME ever launches something in NY I'd love to be a part of it. My only quibble is with this: "Without successful exits from minority-led…
I don't fault myself or anyone else. I think it's just something that happens naturally when a large group of people dominate an industry. If this were a hip hop board, we might be talking about how long it took Far…
I think the first two reasons affect everyone pretty equally, but the 3rd rings pretty true in a couple ways. I was lucky enough to attend several city schools with serious technology programs/curricula. This included…
I would love to give it another chance then. My biggest regret about how things went down is that I missed a lot of the cool, web-based stuff that was going on all these years (I was 15 back in 2000/2001). I was…
No, because IRC wasn't the only place to seek knowledge. I continued to peruse other parts of the internet that didn't allow such blatant racism to slide. Beyond my C++ classes, I was also on a FIRST Robotics team. I…
Somewhat off-topic: I had my first experience with IRC at 15. I'd recently discovered fansubbing and wanted to find subbed copies of the yet-un-aired in America episodes of Sailormoon. Some of the guys in my C++ class…
Do you feel the same way about Jisho (http://jisho.org/)? I generally find it handy.
I don't follow football, but I do watch the superbowl, and I frequently see teams with black head coaches on the field. It's easy to pretend there are no barriers, or that the barriers are related to talent, but whether…
I've received a lot of backhanded compliments in my life (i.e. you're pretty for a dark skinned girl) and they are annoying but I don't think this was one of them. To me it read like, "you're awesome, and the fact that…
Depends on what you mean by "stealth". If stealth means spending over a year and a boatload of cash developing a product without ever getting any feedback from any potential customers, then yeah, that's likely a dead…
You are missing my point. The comment isn't about me. It's about men who have these old-fashioned expectations of women, but don't reciprocate by fulfilling the traditional role for a man. That is, if I have to sit…
Someone should point back to this article every time there is a discussion about the lack of women/blacks/latinos in tech. I don't generally go into a situation thinking people are looking to exclude me, but I've…
You're right, women DON'T have to feel like prostitutes because the options for women have greatly expanded. We no longer have to be confined to the "traditional" roles that encourage us to be passive doormats content…
Then party like it's 1950. ETA: With the growing number of men who refuse to pick up every check, plan every date/event, act as sole provider for the family, purchase gifts regularly for their other half, etc. for fear…
Thing is, when you're job hunting you don't get ANY feedback 99% of the time. I don't actually mind negative feedback because then you know where and how to improve. What bothers me is how much of the job-seeking…
Mestizo, typically.
There are black people all over Latin America. During the slave trade, about 60% of slaves wound up in Portuguese and Spanish America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#New_World_...
Gap, eBay, Home Depot: all companies that still deliver rather consistent value to customers (if not to investors looking for a quick flip). A startup doesn't have to be new and shiny to turn a profit. Sometimes I…
Thanks for the response. I'm very concerned about the state of education in inner cities, but often I see arguments that use IQ in relation to Asian Americans as a reason why students in the black/latino communities…
I'm pretty sure I know what you're getting at, but do you mind expounding on your thoughts previous to discovering this information?
Actually, I read the study some time ago, and am very familiar with it's findings. My response was to your specific comment here: "there was a belief that the school should take care of everything (Parents didn't…
I'm familiar with the study and generally give it more weight than other studies by people who dip in and out of the black community solely to collect data. That said, I don't think it's entirely wrong to think that if…