Day in the Life of a hackNY Fellow(hackny.org)
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Day in the Life of a hackNY Fellow
http://hackny.org/a/2012/07/day-in-the-life-of-a-hackny-fellow/
4 comments
This reads like a satire.
It is very much satire of the batches of "a Day in the Life" posts from people involved in startups that have been posted lately, along with startup stereotypes as a whole. Please don't take it literally.
I think the post made the organization look very bad. I am not sure why anyone would want to post a self-parody on the root blog.
Like all posts by me, not an official HackNY opinion, just my own:
The piece should speak for itself, so I definitely agree that if that's what you got out of the piece, it looks bad.
The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture. HackNY is young, and just developing a culture. Cultural aspects I believe are distinctly HackNY are the living arrangements (having around 30 hackers on one floor of a building is pretty awesome and leads to a lot of brother and sisterhood), along with the talks and activities with amazing people involved in the New York technology sector. That's it. The rest of it you can find at any startup technology internship, and it was the actual incredible, different, interesting, and often difficult, experiences of working at startups, and their stereotypes, that I sought to satirize.
I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. I'm the kind of person that is literally wearing a shirt with 1's and 0's forming a "binary tree" on it right now. I love this community, and if you have an interest in what HackNY really is, I strongly suggest you take a look at the other pages of the site. I should actually go to bed because I may go to a BBQ with some hackers tomorrow.
The piece should speak for itself, so I definitely agree that if that's what you got out of the piece, it looks bad.
The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture. HackNY is young, and just developing a culture. Cultural aspects I believe are distinctly HackNY are the living arrangements (having around 30 hackers on one floor of a building is pretty awesome and leads to a lot of brother and sisterhood), along with the talks and activities with amazing people involved in the New York technology sector. That's it. The rest of it you can find at any startup technology internship, and it was the actual incredible, different, interesting, and often difficult, experiences of working at startups, and their stereotypes, that I sought to satirize.
I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. I'm the kind of person that is literally wearing a shirt with 1's and 0's forming a "binary tree" on it right now. I love this community, and if you have an interest in what HackNY really is, I strongly suggest you take a look at the other pages of the site. I should actually go to bed because I may go to a BBQ with some hackers tomorrow.
Relevant points to the question "Why would anyone post a parody in a root blog"
"The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture... I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. "
"The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture... I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. "
I think most of us took it literally...
I'm really sorry to hear that. We had some people read it and they enjoyed it, but they were from the area and already knew what HackNY was.
actually, I know exactly what hackNY is. I read the article and was like "woah! hackNY isn't as cool as I thought it was..."
I'm glad to know it's a parody, maybe I'm just a little dense.
I'm glad to know it's a parody, maybe I'm just a little dense.
Totally. Please tell me this is satire. If not, like the single comment at the end of the post, I just threw up a lot.
That was my feeling as well, but I'm not sure why HackNY would be posting self-parody on their blog.
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Somewhere in there is some hacking right?
It's a parody.
But real HackNY, for me personally, is hack at work for 9-10 hours, then hack with fellows on personal projects for 2 hours or go to a talk with an established person in the tech industry, rinse and repeat.
If you want an factual diary of the day, I can write one for you, but as it's a lot of coding and networking, you would probably find it dry.
But real HackNY, for me personally, is hack at work for 9-10 hours, then hack with fellows on personal projects for 2 hours or go to a talk with an established person in the tech industry, rinse and repeat.
If you want an factual diary of the day, I can write one for you, but as it's a lot of coding and networking, you would probably find it dry.
Out of curiosity, why was a parody posted on the blog?
Also this is hackernews so I'm not sure the readers here would find coding and networking "dry".
:)
Also this is hackernews so I'm not sure the readers here would find coding and networking "dry".
:)
I would like to hear what a real day-in-as-a-HackNY-fellow is like.
Alright, so this was yesterday:
I got up around 8:30 AM to get to work in SoHo by 10 AM. I live in a dorm at NYU with a floor full of other HackNY fellows really central to NYC, which is amazing. I made breakfast and ground some coffee and worked on a personal Node.js project then walked to SoHo around 9:30AM. Work started at 10AM. I work as a front-end engineering intern primarily with Backbone.js and Require.js lately, so I spent between 10AM-6:30PM doing a quick standup, then coding or getting food from the kitchen (I eat a lot).
Then at 6:30, which is relatively early for me to leave, myself and another intern (non HackNY), went over to Pivotal Labs. We don't usually get to bring other interns with us, but we were having an intern buddy night. When we first got to Pivotal Labs we ate dinner and networked. I got to catch up with a lot of the other fellows and their "intern buddies." We're having a demo day coming up soon so we were all sharing what we would present.
Then Josh Knowles, of Pivotal Labs, gave a talk on the process of developing software and took questions along the way. I got to ask 2-3 on agile software development, recruiting and automation. It was like tech lead 101. After the talk we were allowed to ask him questions separately, but I was all questioned out, so I went out to a bar with my intern buddy and another friend of the program and we talked about the startup spaces we were interested in and how to encourage technology innovation on our respective campuses. I then talked to my suitemates (also HackNY, sans one) about everything from girl stuff to Ruby on Rails database preferences. The peers are one of my favorite parts of the program. Living on a floor full of hackers is incredibly inspiring and we get so much done by inspiring (and sometimes competing) with each other.
So yeah, that's a real day in the life.
I got up around 8:30 AM to get to work in SoHo by 10 AM. I live in a dorm at NYU with a floor full of other HackNY fellows really central to NYC, which is amazing. I made breakfast and ground some coffee and worked on a personal Node.js project then walked to SoHo around 9:30AM. Work started at 10AM. I work as a front-end engineering intern primarily with Backbone.js and Require.js lately, so I spent between 10AM-6:30PM doing a quick standup, then coding or getting food from the kitchen (I eat a lot).
Then at 6:30, which is relatively early for me to leave, myself and another intern (non HackNY), went over to Pivotal Labs. We don't usually get to bring other interns with us, but we were having an intern buddy night. When we first got to Pivotal Labs we ate dinner and networked. I got to catch up with a lot of the other fellows and their "intern buddies." We're having a demo day coming up soon so we were all sharing what we would present.
Then Josh Knowles, of Pivotal Labs, gave a talk on the process of developing software and took questions along the way. I got to ask 2-3 on agile software development, recruiting and automation. It was like tech lead 101. After the talk we were allowed to ask him questions separately, but I was all questioned out, so I went out to a bar with my intern buddy and another friend of the program and we talked about the startup spaces we were interested in and how to encourage technology innovation on our respective campuses. I then talked to my suitemates (also HackNY, sans one) about everything from girl stuff to Ruby on Rails database preferences. The peers are one of my favorite parts of the program. Living on a floor full of hackers is incredibly inspiring and we get so much done by inspiring (and sometimes competing) with each other.
So yeah, that's a real day in the life.
Are avocados a trend on the west coast as well? I see them in so many startup kitchens in NYC.
The west coast loves avocados as well. They are the fruit of life. California produces about 90% of the nation's avocado crop. http://www.avocado.org/fun-avocado-facts/
I dare say more so on the west coast. I haven't yet had an avocado on the east coast that's anywhere near what I get from my neighbor's orchard.
>start working at 10:30
>day ends at 18:20
>working more than 8 hours in a day is "start-up life"
I feel cheated.
>day ends at 18:20
>working more than 8 hours in a day is "start-up life"
I feel cheated.