Hacker News: jrubinovitz

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

jrubinovitz — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:37:19 +0000

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, but hack club still needs to pay for that non-profit status.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up"

jrubinovitz — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 01:12:10 +0000

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.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up"

jrubinovitz — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:32:13 +0000

> 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!

Show HN: Roam Clone in a Week with Homebase React

jrubinovitz — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:00:37 +0000

Article URL: https://roamdemo.homebase.io/page/VtNCWUiUW?ref=hn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334460

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

New comment by jrubinovitz in "How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup"

jrubinovitz — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:14:06 +0000

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.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "About CRDTs"

jrubinovitz — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:58:20 +0000

what are you working on?

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories"

jrubinovitz — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:07:20 +0000

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.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/B0...

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners"

jrubinovitz — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:07:20 +0000

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.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault"

jrubinovitz — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:30:56 +0000

Your comment seems to be 100% independent of this accusation.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women?"

jrubinovitz — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:46:06 +0000

I guess we disagree there.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women?"

jrubinovitz — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:51:44 +0000

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.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se"

jrubinovitz — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:03:01 +0000

I think you email them and are not a jerk and have a stupid website and then you have one.

smart organizers, stupid hackathons.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016"

jrubinovitz — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:14:30 +0000

I think it's more that hiring and coddling ~600 white men is really expensive.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week"

jrubinovitz — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:51:47 +0000

"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 primitive brain. Under such conditions, we become tribal creatures, not intellectually curious ones. We can't be both at the same time."

I think this calls for more moderation so users that can speak civilly and intellectually about politics can do so, not banning speaking of politics entirely. "Conflict activat[ing] the primitive brain" is rather infantilizing, gaslighting, and not true.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Data driven look into the pipeline"

jrubinovitz — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:27:44 +0000

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.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "The Facebook Method of Dealing with Complexity"

jrubinovitz — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:30:28 +0000

This is how you discriminate against the minority, quite literally.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Ask Sam Altman anything"

jrubinovitz — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:21:07 +0000

Excited to have Sam talking to some younger hackers today.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "AWS Loft Program Expands to NYC"

jrubinovitz — Thu, 21 May 2015 21:57:05 +0000

Will be interesting to see how the free coworking space works out.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "I'm a woman CEO and it doesn't change anything"

jrubinovitz — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:26:54 +0000

Isn't Front YCS14? I would love the author to revisit this another year into the company.

New comment by jrubinovitz in "Being a single founder with a speech impediment"

jrubinovitz — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:25:33 +0000

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 stuttering that slips through as gracefully as possible.