Ask YC: Best ways to become socially adept?

Re:Ask YC: Best ways to become socially adept? by bzerkfury on Monday April 21, 2008 @02:28PM (#169713)

I couldn't agree more. During Y Combinator, there were two guys sitting behind me. They said something along the lines of "Not to be sterotypical but I am suspicious of any girls here. They're probably just project managers and not really hackers."

Not a very "social" tactical move to do when there were about two girls around the area who heard his comment and some hackers wonder why girls don't talk to them.

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Re:Ask YC: Best ways to become socially adept? by SwellJoe on Monday April 21, 2008 @05:42PM (#169945)

And, of course, they were wrong (and had they actually talked to some of the girls, they would have known that). I met one young woman who is a CompSci major and has built and sold a Facebook app. I'd give good odds that she'll out-hack and out-earn those two fellows by an order of magnitude in her lifetime. It's a small sample size, and I didn't meet any other women that I didn't previously know from YC, but 100% of the women (er, woman) I met at Startup School were hackers.

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Re:Ask YC: Best ways to become socially adept? by ardit33 on Monday April 21, 2008 @04:43PM (#169874)

or maybe those girls are trying to score a future millionare... hehe...

ok, just kidding. But in some "Tech parties" you always seem some of them and it is very easy to spot the Gold Digging types.

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Re:Ask YC: Best ways to become socially adept? by okeumeni on Monday April 21, 2008 @06:17PM (#169980)

Pure in-the-hole-hacker thinking.

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