Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared .
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#12Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared .
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#13http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/05/171196714/the-jobs...
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#14Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared .
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#15Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared .
Women are scary to computer nerds.
But I have found it is socially unacceptable to remark on that fact.
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#16Title of article: "How to Break Out of the 'Female Entrepreneur' Trap" First line of article: "As the lone female founder of a bustling incubator..." - or is that whooshing sound the joke going over my head?
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#17Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared .
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#18Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared .
I know this is usually verboten on Hacker News, but I find no other way to encode this thought...
Boy, you guys sure sound like assholes. Sounds like she dodged a bullet.
Y'know. Frankly.
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#19Shelley Prevost has never been a startup operator. Her background is in psychological counseling, and she serves that role (in what looks like a team-coach or leadership-coach kind of role) at an incubator. That doesn't disqualify her from having opinions about how women should handle gender-based bias, team dynamic, and motivational challenges in startups. But it doesn't automatically qualify her, either. Meanwhile,…
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#20Let me be frank: I received a 1 page resume of a female computer scientist, where the word "women" was mentioned 8 times (organizations, etc). We did not interview that person, since frankly we were scared .
Women are scary to computer nerds.