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Re:Race and Technology: Are There Renowned Internet Startups With Blac...
on Monday April 05, 2010 @04:20PM (#1242950)
btw ... Russell Simmons is a co-founder of Yelp
Re:Race and Technology: Are There Renowned Internet Startups With Blac...
on Monday April 05, 2010 @04:10PM (#1242928)
The root of this problem is simply that there are a lack of blacks with technical backgrounds (of the high-level blacks listed in your post none of them had cs, engineering, or math degrees). If more blacks opt for technical training, the number of blacks in the startup community will grow. For those who do have an appropriate background, funding probably proves to be another barrier. All too many times, I hear of founders raising initial funding of tens of thousands of dollars from "friends and family." For obvious reasons, this is not an option for the majority of black founders.
Re:Ask HN: Best Startup-Themed Movies?
on Thursday October 22, 2009 @05:36PM (#897730)
I just watched "August." It was pretty decent.
Ask HN: Best Startup-Themed Movies?
Does any one have film suggestions? Startup/tech history favorites?
Re:Ask HN: Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite?
on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @03:05PM (#881920)
Invites have been sent accordingly
Ask HN: Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite?
I have a few invitations left that will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.
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Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)
on Monday August 17, 2009 @10:33AM (#768184)
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Ask HN: What's your definition of "Hacker News"?
As most of us know, submissions should follow PG's "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Nevertheless, in discussion, the question of relevancy often comes up. So, HN, what is your definition of "Hacker News"?
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Re:Ask HN: Startup vs Girlfriend
on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @08:45PM (#692980)
If she's a part of the startup, then you all should spend time together working. If can work together as a couple(especially on a new venture), then you can probably last a lifetime. I'm sure French lessons don't last all day. Spend the evening as a date night. (I am female btw)
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Re:Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @04:37PM (#672692)
It's been on the xpmath site since 2003. If it doesn't seem legit please feel free to suggest that this post is deleted (I'm not exactly sure if/how I can delete it myself after an hour has passed)
Re:Poll: I would have preferred to compress my K-12 education into thi...
on Friday June 19, 2009 @12:49PM (#665460)
I don't think the k-12 curriculum as it stands is optimized at all. Taking social aspects into consideration, I think at least two years could be shaved (so that students would graduate at 15 or 16).
Re:Ask HN: good math books
on Friday June 19, 2009 @12:37PM (#665435)
Check Out "Mathematical Tools for Physics" by James Nearing (available as a free download at http://www.physics.miami.edu/~nearing/mathmethods/). It covers a lot of great results and is one of the most easy to follow comprehensive summaries of an undergraduate math education that I've come across.
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Re:Ask HN: How old were you when you got your first computer?
on Saturday May 09, 2009 @05:59PM (#601493)
haha...I'm 22. That was back in '96.
Ask HN: How old were you when you got your first computer?
I was 9. It ran windows95, and I waited a gazillion years for every web page to load just to have my connection broken every time someone answered the phone.
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Re:Ask YC: Innocuous news?
on Thursday April 23, 2009 @03:41PM (#576336)
I like Innocuous, but you could always give "hacker" a weird web 2.0 spelling to solve the problem.