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clbrook··on Who Y Combinator Companies Want
This article might help explain that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659600
clbrook··on How stereotypical enviroments impact gender participation in CS (2010)
Google also mentions this study in one of their re:Work guides - https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/unbiasing-evaluate-subt...
clbrook··on How stereotypical enviroments impact gender participation in CS (2010)
Full PDF of the study: http://depts.washington.edu/sibl/Publications/Cheryan,%20Pla...
clbrook··on Why we offer parental leave
I think your argument holds, thanks for presenting it. The argument raises a question for me. Is their inherent hiring bias in that type of situation even without a leave policy? What I mean is, as a woman of child bearing age, if I were to get pregnant and have a child during (or immediately prior to) that 12 month runway, wouldn't I possibly be a hiring risk since even if I won't be eligible for pay, I would potentially be out of office at least temporarily. Minimum 6-8 weeks?
clbrook··on Why we offer parental leave
As a mother of an almost 6 year old and a software developer pre and post child, this type of policy is forward thinking and likely appreciated by many employees. I'm trying to think of an argument against such a policy and can't think of one. From the sounds of it, companies will be financially ahead with such policies, at least as it averages out over time?
clbrook··on Show HN: Dear Henry... (we launched our first MVP)
Thanks for the feedback :)
clbrook··on Show HN: Dear Henry... (we launched our first MVP)
It took us a month to build, but we did it!

Looking for feedback, if you have any :)

"Who's your Henry? ...write Henry a letter"

clbrook··on 24 Recipients of MacArthur ‘Genius’ Awards Named
Meet the 2013 MacArthur Fellows: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/2013/
clbrook··on Show HN: New app for Product and Engineering Harmony
I like what I see on your website. Do you have a 2-3 minute intro video? I find those to be really useful when trying to introduce a new tool to other people.
clbrook··on HTML5 game tutorial - Make a snake game using HTML5 canvas and Jquery
Either choose view code or play walkthrough. I prefer the view code, but the play walkthrough has speed-up options.
clbrook··on Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it?
I haven't read through all the other comments and I have offered this advice before, so forgive me if it sounds repetitive.

The book that helped me the most was 'Mindset' by Carol Dweck. It is a quick read and gives multiple settings for describing fixed mindset vs growth mindset. It sounds like you are mainly in the fixed mindset and perhaps reading this book could jump start you into finding ways to incorporate the growth mindset.

http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-Success/dp/...

clbrook··on I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
I'd recommend Mindset by Carol Dweck. It discusses growth mindset vs. fixed mindset. It sounds quite pertinent for your fear of not doing as well again.
clbrook··on Choosing Minecraft over Disney
My 4 year old son started playing Minecraft in creative mode when he was 3. He's become quite adept with the mouse and keyboard.

Here's a video of him building a train, ahem, minecart track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYt3-kihNE

My husband wrote out a cheat-sheet for him to copy letter-by-letter into the command line to switch between creative and survival mode. He remains in creative mode except when he wants to use the crafting table.

I've tried introducing him to Scratch, however, since it is so word-based, it is quite difficult to teach to a non-reader. In Minecraft, even though he can't read, he can tell me what almost every piece of material is in his inventory.

Anyway, long story short, we're always looking for G-rated Minecraft Youtube videos to learn from.

My husband hosts a server world for us (and sometimes his cousins join us). I would love for him to have the opportunity to play Minecraft with kids his own age, but I don't know of any others, does your daughter play or is she just getting started with it?

clbrook··on Ask HN: Is an Autonomy Fund a viable business model?
I wonder if the Kauffman foundation would be interested in partnering. http://www.kauffman.org/
clbrook··on Procrastination is Not Laziness
I read a book in 2006 called Mindset, by Carol Dweck, a Stanford Psychologist. I could see how having a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset might help in this case of life-long procrastination. Just a thought. I'm curious if others on HN have read the book and think it would be helpful. There is a website associated with the book that might also have some useful information: http://mindsetonline.com/
clbrook··on How to Hire More Women at Your Startup
This is a 25-minute video given by Shelley Correll, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, Director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She discusses some ways to try and counter known biases when hiring and promoting.

http://leanin.org/education/creating-a-level-playing-field/

clbrook··on Microsoft's little-screen, big-screen interactive future
Reminds me of Corning's day of glass videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38
clbrook··on The Saddest Map In America
I did.

The date he had been setup on showed up about 5 minutes after my coworkers and I moved on to the next restaurant (edit: bar, this is Wisconsin after-all), R and his date went inside to eat, which is why S could not find him.

R told me on our first date that you'll never know how difficult it is to go on a date with someone while you're thinking about someone else :)

clbrook··on The Saddest Map In America
This finally motivated me to write up about it :)

http://drippurple.com/

clbrook··on The Saddest Map In America
I met my husband on craigslist missed connections. Back in 2007.
clbrook··on 500 Startups Open for Applications
Thanks for all of the information. Now that I understand why these are the terms it makes more sense.
clbrook··on 500 Startups Open for Applications
FAQ says that they charge $6,000 per founder and $3,000 per non-founder to participate in the accelerator program.

Do most accelerators charge you to participate in them, while at the same time investing ~$50,000 for 5% equity?

clbrook··on [dead]
Just realized that this story hit HN in a different form nine months ago...

Now - Caine's scholarship fund is almost to the $250K match! http://cainesarcade.com/

clbrook··on If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a scientific research group studying this area. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds: http://www.investigatinghealthyminds.org/cihmWhat.html

"The Center is embarking on a series of research programs in both long-term meditation practitioners as well as more novice practitioners to examine how such training affects the brain and body, and also to provide critical information on how to structure interventions to make them more successful."

This is a 2010 New York Times article describing that: "The center’s mission was inspired by a meeting between Dr. Davidson and the Dalai Lama in 1992 in the Himalayas." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27happy.html?_r=4&t...;

clbrook··on How To Do A Startup On The Side And Not Lose Your Family
...and mommies too!
clbrook··on Just the Facts: S&P's $2 Trillion Mistake
Maybe it was downgraded due to this trade made two weeks before: http://etfdailynews.com/2011/07/25/investors-the-1-billion-a...
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