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I'm a bit skeptical and concerned about folks from outside the state moving in and meddling with politics, even if they mean well.

It's solving a problem we don't have.

> Of course, it's simple to add a "name" or "type" field. However, the name of the object ought to be denoted differently than its contents, IMHO.

Why?

The reason this is bad is the same reason letting kids pick what to eat for every meal is bad: the entire MO OG HN being "stuff hackers find interesting" has been subverted by an advertising industry they've largely helped create.

A Prime Directive only can be taken seriously when existential threats are minor.

They really are like puppies, and if your org can't take care of them you shouldn't adopt one.

Not really misinformation, thanks for sticking up for a helpless company though.

Officially removing "Don't be evil" wasn't enough of a hint for you?

Kids are super neat--it's just interesting seeing if that was from marrying into additional kids (have seen this with second and third marriage couples) or if they come from the marriage directly.

It's more that, as a hiring fair thing, you're gonna be running up against the folks that are looking for enterprisey (say, Schlumberger) or FANG jobs. The culture there isn't one that is super startup-friendly.

If it's for CS, don't bother. The kids're mainly set on FANG and while they're somewhat skilled the ones that show up at fairs are pretty milquetoast.

If you want the smart ones who aren't risk-averse, look at who's drinking at Valhalla. Also, look for graduates of Wong's 410/415 sequence if it's still offered.

No cable? :P

> The original charter of Rice Institute dictated that the university admit and educate, tuition-free, "the white inhabitants of Houston, and the state of Texas". In 1963, the governing board of Rice University filed a lawsuit to allow the university to modify its charter to admit students of all races and to charge tuition.

They also have massive amounts of real-estate and stock grants.

Running out of money. We were bootstrapped, and the style of work we were doing had some decent capital costs. We failed for a "bargain" (less than 7K), but we had cut to the bone and deeper while trying that. Side jobs to make rent just increased stress and distracted from the business.

Why did we run out of money?

Focused on engineering instead of sales and marketing. Manually spinning up servers would've been the right thing to do--since we instead were both technical we solved technical problems and kinda missed the people side of things. It was real and hard work, but it was not work that was relevant to making sales.

After we ran out of money, why didn't we keep at it?

Stress blocked further work. Too much stress led to neither founder being able to even think about the company and its business without severe anxiety. Times were dark and bad.

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I learned that you want to prioritize the money funnel over literally every other thing that you as an engineer think matters. Coffee is for closers.

I learned to try out only with other people's money. Don't put your rent and basic living on the line for an idea if you aren't comfortable with what that can entail.

Probably most importantly, I learned that the glorification of the startup lifestyle is a lie perpetuated by people seeking to make money from it at all levels. Nowadays, even the glorification of failure and celebration of mental health seems to be by people looking to advertise their businesses, cure-alls, or just get internet famous.

It's rotten to its bloody core, and unlike finance doesn't even pay well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884 was kinda a classic for the Rails community.

It's pretty obvious terminology for systems that don't support dynamic hierarchy changes.

EDIT: Consulting some docs from the time ( http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/USNAVY/CHAPTER-10-D.html ), this may not be the case. I'm genuinely curious now.

This is the future we chose. :(

So that's the thing, right? These events used to be fueled by passion about hacking. Then, at some point, MLH or a similar org says "Hey, we'll give you support and more money for bigger events, you just have to adopt our culture." Then otherwise interesting local and unique events, with local and unique buy-in and community participation (actual community participation, not the "community" bandied about by folks like you looking to astroturf what you're doing), are scrubbed out because they aren't economically viable.

Orgs that sponsor hackathons for recruiting partnerships ruin these things, and that's why hackathons are full of kids looking to win prizes and build resumes instead of make cool things.

>It's up to organizations like MLH to help preserve the good parts of hacker culture while enabling it to naturally evolve over time.

It's up to the hackers. Orgs are just profiting off of it.

EDIT: Slightly less inflammatory tone.

It's more of an interactive jobs fair now. :(