Hacker News: allanca

New comment by allanca in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

allanca — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:52:04 +0000

I'm starting to come around to seeing airports the same way. Airplanes need "a ton of extremely expensive physical infrastructure to connect every" city to the grid.

That's why the creditors let Spirit die. Their airport slots and gates are more valuable than the rest of the company combined.

New comment by allanca in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)"

allanca — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 18:35:09 +0000

Loansnap (previously Market Forces) | Senior Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE www.marketforces.co

We are helping consumers with the largest financial transaction of their lives, buying or refinancing a house, and making the process fast, easy and fair.

Your job will be to work with our product and engineering team to create lightning-fast, usable, and delightful products for our customers and employees. Success will be measured by how efficiently you can engineer reliable, performant, and maintainable full-stack systems that can grow with our company.

We are a small (5 engineers), smart, and fun team backed by top VC firms. Our two founders, Karl Jacob and Allan Carroll, are serial entrepreneurs whose companies have helped tens of millions of consumers from protecting them from spam to communicating with family members over almost 10 companies.

Our Stack:

* React / Redux / CSS-in-JS

* React Native

* GraphQL / Apollo

* Python / Django

* Docker / Kubernetes / Google Cloud

We would love to have you join us in transforming the mortgage industry to one where consumers are treated fairly, get the right mortgage for them and in a lot less time :)

See the job posting on Angel List here: https://angel.co/marketforces/jobs/240609-senior-full-stack-...

Or, email me (Founder & CTO) directly at allan (at) goloansnap (dot) com

New comment by allanca in "Introducing Progressive Equity – Increase employee ownership as company grows"

allanca — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:41:53 +0000

Is this something you implemented from the incorporation at Detour or only later on as the company started to grow? Seems like this level of complexity when the company is still incipient could be too much mental overhead.

Air Battery Would Last 2.5s on Machine with 1990's Efficiency

allanca — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:36:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/if-a-macbook-air-were-as-efficient-as-a-1991-computer-the-battery-would-last-25-seconds/245041/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2997552

Points: 92

# Comments: 44

Distributed Dictatorship

allanca — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:38:02 +0000

Article URL: http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/11/constitutional-dictator-and-maximum.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880564

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What kind of girl do you think I am?

allanca — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:14:54 +0000

Article URL: http://manylogue.com/what-kind-of-girl-do-you-think-i-am/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773413

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by allanca in "Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)"

allanca — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:22:14 +0000

Web Engineer - Salt Lake City, UT

Piick is a new Social Recommendation startup. We're looking for a fourth member of our team. The site is written in Python and jQuery. Telecommuting is an option for the right hire. Our team previously grew a family-based social network startup to over 80 million users.

Send a resume, link to your github account or tech blog to me at allanca gmail com.

New comment by allanca in "Tell HN: FamilyLink is hiring a Flex/Flash guru"

allanca — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:23:05 +0000

You can drop me an email also, allan at familylink dot com.