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tarmstrongon Ask HN: Which of your start up mistakes has taught you the most?

You want customers, not a customer. You can only be one customer. It's probably best to build for customers, since that's how you make money.

tarmstrongon I know I belong in computer science, but sometimes I wonder.

I see two problems here: one, Carolyn is calling this a gender issue and not doing a good job of explaining why it is; and two, any time 'gender' is mentioned on Hacker News, twenty people defensively write comments dismissing the gender issue.

This might be more of a gender issue than we realize. CS is just plain unwelcoming, no matter who you are, but there are fewer women in CS. We are turning women away somehow, and it's probably in ways more subtle than we realize.

Any time someone complains about CS being unpleasant, we should take a hard look and wonder if it's more unpleasant to women for that reason. There's no point in trying to end or simplify the gender conversation, even if we were brought into it sloppily.

tarmstrongon Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?

Who makes the moral argument that one person should not be making that much?

tarmstrongon Is there such a thing as a sustainable todo system?

What about "this day and age" is causing poor time management?

tarmstrongon Ask HN: Who plays chess?

I think my best was 4th for all Ontario. How old are you?