jrubinovitz

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by jrubinovitz 1y ago
Hi this is to cover the cost of the non-profit. There's a thing called fiscal sponsorship where you can basically let people use your non-profit status and it's great for kids who want to throw hackathons to not worry about taxes,
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by jrubinovitz 5y ago
That's so important when you're shipping at startup speed and it's so tempting to just rush to the next thing. I am going to try this with my next cross platform app.
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by jrubinovitz 5y ago
> On mobile, we generate a QR code that can be scanned by a phone running the Ambrook app to download and run the latest Javascript bundle live on the phone. This is awesome!
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Show HN: Roam Clone in a Week with Homebase React(roamdemo.homebase.io)
15 points by jrubinovitz 6y ago|0 comments
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by jrubinovitz 6y ago
It's very helpful to know you can negotiate with tech transfer offices. I always assumed their (not-go-great) terms were non-negotiable and was super dissuaded against starting something while a researcher at a university.
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by jrubinovitz 6y ago
what are you working on?
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by jrubinovitz 9y ago
Traumatic memories are accepted as sometimes being stored in some capacity in human body regions other than the head, I'd be very interested in seeing if this is connected, as research progresses. Source: https://www.amazon
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by jrubinovitz 9y ago
Well done, loved the use of interactive graphics. Curious if you will continue this approach, but for more advanced cryptography, or move on to other things. Would love a more in depth guide to cryptography in this format.
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by jrubinovitz 9y ago
Your comment seems to be 100% independent of this accusation.
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by jrubinovitz 9y ago
I guess we disagree there.
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by jrubinovitz 9y ago
If these are your issues as well, you can join in and help fix them. No one is trying to invalidate your problems; this is a call to action for better engineering management practices.
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by jrubinovitz 10y ago
I think you email them and are not a jerk and have a stupid website and then you have one. smart organizers, stupid hackathons.
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by jrubinovitz 10y ago
I think it's more that hiring and coddling ~600 white men is really expensive.
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by jrubinovitz 10y ago
"Why don't we have some politics but discuss it in thoughtful ways? Well, that's exactly what the HN guidelines call for, but it's insufficient to stop people from flaming each other when political conflicts activate the
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by jrubinovitz 11y ago
I would love to see more companies do this (e.g. via their Slackbot). Real diversity numbers are going to be key in making change.
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by jrubinovitz 11y ago
This is how you discriminate against the minority, quite literally.
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by jrubinovitz 11y ago
Excited to have Sam talking to some younger hackers today.
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by jrubinovitz 11y ago
Will be interesting to see how the free coworking space works out.
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by jrubinovitz 12y ago
Isn't Front YCS14? I would love the author to revisit this another year into the company.
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by jrubinovitz 12y ago
I also had a stutter and some other speech problems as a child that are pretty much gone, but can flare up when I'm nervous. My solution has been public speaking. Now I'm less nervous when speaking and I know how to handle any stu
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The Sunshade for Glass(prserve.com)
1 points by jrubinovitz 13y ago|0 comments
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by jrubinovitz 13y ago
Philadelphia is a great city for open data/open government. There's a Chief Data Officer and a pretty active Code for America brigade.
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The men who set themselves on fire(aljazeera.com)
1 points by jrubinovitz 13y ago|0 comments
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by jrubinovitz 13y ago
I was really hoping this was a "Breaking Bad" reference (Walter "Heisenberg" White and his fedora).
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1500 miles of driving with Glass: ‘Google Glass will save lives’(venturebeat.com)
3 points by jrubinovitz 13y ago|0 comments
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by jrubinovitz 13y ago
This is the actual paper documenting the study the article refers to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032713... "Method A total of 62 participants suffering from depression were ran
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by jrubinovitz 13y ago
Yes, I do not feel comfortable giving this site my HN credentials.
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Interview with Chris Wiggins: don’t send me another $^%& shortcut alias(mathbabe.org)
11 points by jrubinovitz 13y ago|0 comments
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College Student Blockers(rubinovitz.com)
1 points by jrubinovitz 14y ago|0 comments
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
Hmm, I have IMAP enabled and this isn't connecting to my Gmail. Any possible fixes?

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