OasisG

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by OasisG 15y ago
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.
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by OasisG 15y ago
Oh duh, I read the "with" as "as". Thx.
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by OasisG 15y ago
How does a non-technical single founder get "recognized as one of the smartest technical folks on HN"? Other than that, enlightening post.
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by OasisG 15y ago
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 start-ups we forgo creatin
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by OasisG 15y ago
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 East Movement to make it
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by OasisG 15y ago
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 C++ for all 4 years of
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by OasisG 15y ago
My best shot is: because you cannot make cool TV shows about computer scientists It's not that you CAN'T make shows like this, it's that producers/writers project their own stereotypes into figuring out what shows will work or not. Thus,
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 interested in the web, but
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 was seen as a person th
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 were avid IRC users an
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by OasisG 16y ago
Do you feel the same way about Jisho ( http://jisho.org/ )? I generally find it handy.
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by OasisG 16y ago
1. The story about Obama' Os makes it seem so easy to raise $32k. Of course it does not always pan out the same way. I don't think he meant that it was easy. I think he meant the exact opposite, which is why it's so impressive.
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 YC is biased or not
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 you're succeeding d
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 end. If stealth, howeve
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 quietly, look pretty, and
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 experienced instances of ma
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by OasisG 16y ago
I'd like to know more about the dating lives of the guys who DON'T think this line of thinking belongs in the previous century.
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 to be totally dependen
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 of marrying a woman w
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 process is essentially a cr
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by OasisG 16y ago
The many negative responses to this resume are exactly why I've let go of the job hunt and embraced the path of the entrepreneur. Even when you go above and beyond, winning over the hiring director is still a game of chance.
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by OasisG 16y ago
Mestizo, typically.
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by OasisG 16y ago
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_...
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by OasisG 16y ago
Yeah, I should have clarified. I don't think black hispanics and african americans should be classified as separate racial groups, but the two groups are definitely make up different ethnic groups. Different languages, food, perspectives
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by OasisG 16y ago
"Over all, black Hispanics and American Indians have the highest rates of intermarriage." I am thrilled to see they are recognizing black Hispanics as a bonafide group. Being forced to choose between the two gets old quick. I don't know tha
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by OasisG 16y ago
There is a breed of female founder that lives to pose for cameras and magazine covers and to be mentioned in Valleywag. ~~~~~ Your comment seems to suggest there's some special rule that women cannot/should not seek to be recognized in the
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 wonder if I'm living in a
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by OasisG 16y ago
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 have not achieved. I kno
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by OasisG 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I know what you're getting at, but do you mind expounding on your thoughts previous to discovering this information?

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