Not to be incisive, but I think startup founders are extremely poor role models. Of those I've met, most have been very narcissistic and self-serving (successful ones and failures alike). Plus, I'd wager that those who aspire to be 'startup founders' are putting the cart before the horse.
If black highly intelligent role models are who you're after - Neil Tyson exhibits all of qualities that a kid of any race/creed/religion should aspire to have.
that's funny, because i'm a scientist and I don't like him at all; to me he seems to use science as a source of authority and power, which is antithetical to the entire philosophy of science.
I'm also a scientist and I find Neil deGrasse Tyson extremely grating. I find something about his snarky/condescending tone to be poor qualities for his role as "science communicator."
Yea no. If he meant sarcastic he should have used it - "incisive" has extra implications of being perceptive and cutting to the point, which doesn't really fit well in a self descriptor/apology - because I assume he is not disclaiming his intention to actually get to the point, just the potential offense caused by criticizing founders on HN.
While that is a possible outcome, we're working really hard to make sure that doesn't happen. We'd hate to be responsible for an increase in the volume of recruiter-spam sent to engineers every day. Although this isn't on the homepage, we are planning to add a set of tools so that engineers can manage their profiles and companies' technical recruiters can coordinate engineer-to-engineer outreach. We believe that it's a lot better when engineers should receive cold recruiting emails from the people they'd actually be working with.
So the answer is /yes/. Everyone you index has to know about you, and go to your website in order to opt them out of receiving emails they never asked to receive in the first place? That means it's spam.
If black highly intelligent role models are who you're after - Neil Tyson exhibits all of qualities that a kid of any race/creed/religion should aspire to have.
source: I'm a jew and I love Neil.