PG making it rain? Tell me when he calls a square dance as good as Guy Steele:
Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
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#12I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley. Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I suggest someone make a gif of just that part and it be made the background of HN every time a YC company is acquired.
I'm always surprised that the LGBT community doesn't intersect more with the engineering community, given that both San Francisco and New York are major hubs for both. I know several gay men (and a few lesbian women or transgendered people) who work in the startup world, but even then they tend to be non-engineering positions. A former co-worker of mine and I started an NYC meetup for this exact purpose - we're actua…
There are quite a number of interesting LGBT projects happening in the valley. My favourite is my cab service when I'm in town (I prefer this to a usual cab late at night as a solo female traveller): http://www.yelp.com/biz/homobiles-san-francisco. If you'd like to hear some genuine discrimination stories order a cab here sometime, they are unbelievably friendly and happy to discuss why this service exists. There's an unpublished NPR interview out there also, not sure if it's made it to the airwaves.
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#13PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.
We're a startup too and you can see the story behind this service here https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about Having said that, congrats to exec. Definitely not our intention to take away any spotlight from them by posting that here. We just found it fitting. We'll gladly take down this link if the OP asks.
I get that the name is from a meme, or something, but it's all just a bit too ridiculous. It sounds like a tumblr of spoiled suburban kids' tweets, not what I gather is gittip for twitter - which seems like a shaky premise.
The downvotes are probably because you aren't adding anything to the discussion, just blindly pimping your site. If it comes up in a discussion, or it's relevant to the topic at hand, throw in a plug. But making an account expressly for spamming is a poor choice.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're a startup too and you can see the story behind this service here https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about Having said that, congrats to exec. Definitely not our intention to take away any spotlight from them by posting that here. We just found it fitting. We'll gladly take down this link if the OP asks.
I get that the name is from a meme, or something, but it's all just a bit too ridiculous. It sounds like a tumblr of spoiled suburban kids' tweets, not what I gather is gittip for twitter - which seems like a shaky premise. The downvotes are probably because you aren't adding anything to the discussion, just blindly pimping your site. If it comes up in a discussion, or it's relevant to the topic at hand, throw in a p…
We're well aware of the fact that this is rather ridiculous. That is part of what captivates people about the service when we tell them about it. As for the premise of the service, it's somewhat different from what you have in mind. Clicking the "i" at the top right explains what the service really is.
In any case, I didn't want to get into the details before but we were actually unable to post the link to HN using this account as a "new" submission so we had given up on posting to HN. Trust me, I, like you hate when people plug their service on someone else's post. Having said that, when we were reading HN today and saw this headline, we couldn't resist.
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#15I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley. Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I suggest someone make a gif of just that part and it be made the background of HN every time a YC company is acquired.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm always surprised that the LGBT community doesn't intersect more with the engineering community, given that both San Francisco and New York are major hubs for both. I know several gay men (and a few lesbian women or transgendered people) who work in the startup world, but even then they tend to be non-engineering positions. A former co-worker of mine and I started an NYC meetup for this exact purpose - we're actua…
This hasn't been my experience so far working as a software engineer in the valley. I've worked with/know several gay engineers and startup folks. To be fair, I don't know whether the proportion is representative of the wider population or not.
Anecdotally, I feel like it isn't, though I don't live in the Bay Area. San Francisco has the highest GLBT population (by percentage) in the nation. Even if we even it out and use 10%, a number that GLBT organizations sometimes use when referring to the general population, that would imply that most startups with a 10-person engineering team would have a gay engineer.
In my experience, that's certainly not been the case, at least in NYC (though it seems to be true about SF as well). It's even more bizarre because Silicon Alley overlaps with most of the gayborhoods in NYC. At a startup I used to work at, our local dive bar happened to be a gay bar, even though only one member of the team was openly gay[0]!
[0] Backstory: the old dive bar got bought and turned into a gay bar, so people just kept going to the same place anyway.
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#17PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.
We're a startup too and you can see the story behind this service here https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about Having said that, congrats to exec. Definitely not our intention to take away any spotlight from them by posting that here. We just found it fitting. We'll gladly take down this link if the OP asks.
It could definitely use a better description; basically I'm throwing my money into a well, and you guys get a cut? If there's some charitable component, or the destination of the cash was more transparent, then I get it. Otherwise it just seems like paying a lot of money for a tweet, which I guess somw people might be into.
So, I guess, good luck. It seems really weird and unlikely.
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#18I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley. Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I suggest someone make a gif of just that part and it be made the background of HN every time a YC company is acquired.
✔ Gif http://i.imgflip.com/dk9r.gif
And here it is on Maxgif (my personal favorite gif viewing service) http://maxgif.com/99i
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're a startup too and you can see the story behind this service here https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about Having said that, congrats to exec. Definitely not our intention to take away any spotlight from them by posting that here. We just found it fitting. We'll gladly take down this link if the OP asks.
It could definitely use a better description; basically I'm throwing my money into a well, and you guys get a cut? If there's some charitable component, or the destination of the cash was more transparent, then I get it. Otherwise it just seems like paying a lot of money for a tweet, which I guess somw people might be into. So, I guess, good luck. It seems really weird and unlikely.
Fair enough. In all honesty, there are an infinite number of purchases displayed on the richkidsofinstagram website that I cannot understand or ever justify but it caters to a crowd that thinks and operates far differently than you or I - and those are the ones we are targeting. Hence the somewhat "arrogant" language in the info page.
Thanks for the "luck".
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#20The US flag in the background of the treadmill is kind of offensive -- it touches the ground, etc. (and the waving them around parts outdoors, too, later in the video). The flag-pants are not something I'd ever wear, but that's more ambiguous.
Awesome video overall, though!