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intrazoo··on The Most Innovative Employees at Google Aren’t grads with Perfect SATs
Because HN's account registration is darn right hidden.

/s

intrazoo··on Google Versus
Don't forget google fiber! I would say that that is 'new' enough.

(and wave, and kinda docs, and now)

PS: I think we should be hard on companies in general, but its important to reward the good behavior too (maybe).

intrazoo··on The New Google Maps
I don't hate it, but if you have a nice new tab page (i use speeddial 2 for chrome (and I have a link to calendar and drive)), I don't imagine someone using it that often.
intrazoo··on Hug vs. Handshake
I came here to say this. Oh course it is not perfect all the time, but I find it useful in team and personal-world situations all the time. Sometimes, if i'm feeling really campy, i say "good game" too (if it is at the end of something).
intrazoo··on Poll: At what price would you buy Google Glass?
With a few more small features/improvements/tweaks (better call quality, more apps, longer battery, maybe fold-able, that type of thing)I would want it to the point I could afford. I think that puts me at the $500ish.

And i have to consider, do I prioritize buying a tablet (or camera/netbook) first? A tablet may or may not be more functional... These are pretty sci-fi/magic though...

intrazoo··on Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents
maybe this? http://www.gschool.it/experiencearchitect/
intrazoo··on Creating a hacking environment for girls in Chicago
Roger that, thank you for the response, and best of luck in this project. Getting both younger and underrepresented people familiar with computers/coding, even if they do not go on to be developers, is important (Alan Kay says we don't teach kids math/science/music just so that they can all become mathematician/scientists/musicians).
intrazoo··on Creating a hacking environment for girls in Chicago
I agree with you, and want to thank you fleshing out the thoughts on this topic for me to consume.

Here are my questions/concerns (and I know that no one is claiming this is universal solution to everything).

This type of thing is a [great but] local/temporary/band-aid to a systemic problem, and that mismatch, combined with the murky territory of gender, seems vulnerable to problems. How do transgender-ed people fit in this, they could certainly be/have been targeted by the same anti-math-stuff discrimination?

If you have a group/club for each under-represented demographic (female, black, trans, etc.), does that, in some way, promote some sort of isolationism?

What if this/a service/hacker-space is the only one in the area and/or the only one offering a specific thing (python vs ruby, or the only one with google glass or focused on UX)? Is it then still 'fair' to deny access to an individual based on something like their gender? Of course, females are systematically under-valued (if thats the right term) in this (and many other) fields, and so this is a drop in the ocean on the global gender/computer score board, and its not like it is their fault that no one else teaches UX or Lisp (having limited options at all to start with is sub-optimal), but it is not like said individual probably has anything to do with this type of repression. I guess this question regards how much the average 'male' (gender is vestigial and evil, see: post-genderism) human in computers has a leg up due to general repression.

This is not to dismiss the fact that having gender exclusive clubs might foster a more trusting or encouraging environment or something for some. Thank you for your time.

intrazoo··on How iTunes crushed music sales
This chart could use some piracy (and online streaming) data as well, though I am not sure what it would look like.

Also, make sure to sort by sales too.

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