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Re: Android Memory Leaks OR Different Ways to Leak

banane — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:05:24 -0000

Great wrap-up, thanks

Re: Snapp Shots: Oakland First Fridays may return to chaos after losing manager

banane — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:40:38 -0000

I'm a fan of Sarah, she helped me find priority restroom there when I was pregnant, making it an enjoyable, fun, & yummy outting.

Re: Review of Trader Joe’s Marinated Meats

banane — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:48:33 -0000

oh good call!

Re: Review of Trader Joe’s Marinated Meats

banane — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:25:26 -0000

Yeah, you & Sally are right- I had it on too low.

Re: Review of Trader Joe’s Marinated Meats

banane — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:52:42 -0000

omg thanks for the sauce recommendation! Yeah I had the pan on too low, and was multi-tasking, ha. Still, I felt it took too long. Baking was fine because the fennel/kale was in with it. We were both scarred from seeing it raw, haha.

Re: Ruby on Rails and Facebook API (Koala): Basic Example

banane — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:16:28 -0000

Wherever you want to implement a Facebook authenticantion, or a call to get some information from Facebook. If you tell me more about your app, I can be more specific.

Re: Car-Free Lombard Street, Filled With People, is KPIX’s Vision of “Chaos”

banane — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:23:05 -0000

You realize that used to be on Lombard.

Re: Car-Free Lombard Street, Filled With People, is KPIX’s Vision of “Chaos”

banane — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:22:47 -0000

There's quite a bit of transit- the 30, 45, 8x

Re: Millie The Adopted Cat Is The Best Climbing Partner Ever

banane — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:06:19 -0000

That's really awesome- and, Hi Craig!

Re: Talking to Yourself: A Twitter Bot in Clojure as a Total Newb

banane — Tue, 06 May 2014 17:05:05 -0000

Very cool.

Re: The GitHub-Horvath Mess: Another Reminder of the Value of Diverse Founding Teams

banane — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:04:05 -0000

To me it's a case of - how to mishandle sexual harassment reports. How to make contributors feel intimidated, unheard, and irrelevant. The original complaints weren't handled, and that spiraled. You're right in that having a diverse founding team at the get-go would have cleared up issues. Promoting her into a position to help and lead -which she was clearly willing to do with the Passion Projects, was one option open to them. By not doing anything, they were essentially saying "this is OK that it happens here at Github." Many orgs have had that very same issue. Systemic sexual (agist/racist) harassment can't be handled by inaction.

Re: 8 Things You Must Do To Support Pregnant Startup Employees

banane — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:04:18 -0000

Awesome post- also pregnant @ at a startup (but my own). Really useful considerations. I'd add- pregnancy does nto have to be part of the workplace, many times it's a haven of non-baby conversation, stuff, topics. The brain does not go with pregnancy, in fact I'd say it's sharper, more focused, more on point.

Re: SupportPay Is Our Latest PITCH Winner

banane — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:18:41 -0000

This was my vote!

Re: The Pre-Product Phase

banane — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:12:15 -0000

Fred- my company PickAxe (consisting of me and my co-founder Kyle) try to solve this exact problem, by helping entrepreneurs show vs. tell. Help them build the "secret sauce" app quickly (2-1/2 wks). Totally agree with your paint points. After being recruited so many times as a CTO for equity, realized that entrepreneurs really just need to get their idea realized as a proof of concept, to get first customer, funding, or a CTO.

Re: Prices of App Store successes

banane — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:00:55 -0000

very cool graph - and very nice to share the code!

Re: 6 Tips for Female Engineers To Advance Their Careers

banane — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:41:42 -0000

Very true- especially "talk to management" something that nobody wants to do. And, seems like the more techie you are, the less you want to do it!

Re: Pregnant & Entrepreneur = Pregpreneur

banane — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:01:34 -0000

Thanks Peter! It's pretty exciting, on both accounts ;)

Re: Pregnant & Entrepreneur = Pregpreneur

banane — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:07:58 -0000

Thanks Amy! For both babies haha

Re: Pregnant & Entrepreneur = Pregpreneur

banane — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:07:21 -0000

Leanne, lovely to hear how it worked out from a successful mom :) BF is also in childcare and has a different schedule. It was one of our first concerns. My last startup- in no way was conducive to having a kid, the perks of having your own is so great.

Re: SiliconValley

banane — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 20:15:19 -0000

I grew up in the 80s in Cupertino- this is one of the most accurate descriptions of that area. Rich in "tech scholars" poor in trees, community, etc. We were aware, in my radical teenage years, of the serious contamination of the surrounding groundwaters near and in Sunnyvale due to Fairchild and other manufacturers. Great article. One point- difficult to view the current map with old places on it- for instance 85 wasn't present when Apple was on Mariani (technically Greenleaf).

Re: Technical Interviews Make Me Cry

banane — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:55:03 -0000

Awesome post, thanks for writing. I'm also have a huge fear factor going into tech interviews, and agree that confidence is the #1 asset.

Re: The Found Poetry of Tech Conference Sexism

banane — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 03:56:31 -0000

Yeah, I was wondering that too. And the name was so obvious, no serious screening required there.

Re: The Found Poetry of Tech Conference Sexism

banane — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 03:56:01 -0000

No, the internet was for sharing science papers. Then, it was exploited for porn. Now, everyone uses it as an information source.

Re: The Found Poetry of Tech Conference Sexism

banane — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 03:55:25 -0000

There are a few women-focused funds, there are women in VC companies, but it's very low, and those women are sensitive to not being branded as investing in "only women-run companies." What I've found, too, is that they invest in women-as-consumer businesses, not necessarily women-owned or founded companies. One of the biggest diverse funding goes on by 500 startups founder Dave McClure, for race/age/gender, mostly because he's interested in disrupting markets, instead of always catering to the same ones.

Re: Really, I Have to Write This Article Again?

banane — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:52:56 -0000

Awesome- thanks for writing, and so quickly. You're right, there are some really interesting, pressing and innovative projects out there. I think we've just saturated the "geekyboy" market. Time to move onto the 3rd world, environment, healthcare, etc.