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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
A good friend of mine worked for BirchBox, a subscription beauty service for women and men (Birchbox men), as an intern last summer. From what she told me, the work they did to create a community around the service helps the company beat ou
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
Please write a blog post. I saw some Michigan hackers at hackNY as well and would love to hear more about the Michigan hackathon tour and where it's taking you guys.
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
In the past, PennApps organizers went out of the way to cater to my dietary needs (dairy-free), but I think it was too big for that this year. Maybe allergen inclusion on the registration form could have informed organizers on the ratio of
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
"It wasn't about taking over the world, it was about being baller in San Francisco." -Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber Sounds like a good starting goal to pursue with a start-up.
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
I love the design. Did you guys use any framework for the design, or is it all you guys?
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Ask HN: What challenges are there in crowdsourcing realtime approval ratings?
8 points by jrubinovitz 14y ago|1 comments
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
I interned at Skillshare up until late July, and we shared an office space with Svpply. They are a cool bunch of guys and they seemed to be working pretty hard this summer. I wish them the best at Ebay. Is this the second NYC acquisition by
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Joel Spolsky and the Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange(hackny.org)
2 points by jrubinovitz 14y ago|0 comments
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
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
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
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
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
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.
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
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 fac
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
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.
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
Are avocados a trend on the west coast as well? I see them in so many startup kitchens in NYC.
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Is Require.js worth using for large applications?
1 points by jrubinovitz 14y ago|1 comments
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by jrubinovitz 14y ago
I really wouldn't mind paying for a textbook access code for every class I take, if the price was actually reasonable (unlike new textbook prices). In an ideal world: go around the print publishers and digitally publish books with an access
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
I do it weekly, but mainly because I experiment a lot with my OS and will generally have to re-install it once a week.
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
What are the jobs and projects you want looking for? When I decide to commit most of my learning time to a certain language, it's because that's the language I want to and like programming in the most. For instance, right now I'm trying to
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
I have done work at a charity that mails donations of books to prisons called "Books Through Bars", and I am always excited to get a request for books on programming. You may want him to send a request to them, there will be some lag time,
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I think I'm looking for something more scientifically demanding. I'm basically trying to convert a bunch of kids pursuing medical school, most of which probably do not have the chops to get in. I would love
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
I agree, it will depend on the courses, but if the courses cover content that would make one a good fit for the team, the student has demonstrated the mastery of the content, and they have a good portfolio, I do not see why I would not cons
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Ask HN: What group activity can I do to get students interested in CS?
4 points by jrubinovitz 15y ago|4 comments
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
I really like the "try to have at least two internships: one at a small start-up and one at a tech company" sentiment. Internships aren't just for your resume, they're for you to figure out what areas in the business you like and to gain a
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A Brief Guide to Tech Internships(alexeymk.com)
1 points by jrubinovitz 15y ago|0 comments
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
Is this the Geolocation API the Marauder's Map team at PennApps used this to build a virtual Marauder's Map? If so, now it suddenly makes sense how they had time to make the awesome UI design. I definitely agree on the feedback looking for
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
Can you be more specific? Please let us know your skill set and what you'd like to be doing.
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
I went hunting for "macbook pro i7" and every item I clicked on (something like 4 or 5) had already been sold. It does look like something I would use otherwise(EDIT: as in if I had a better success rate when I clicked).
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
Yeah, I will try that next time we work.
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
I like this a lot. I would love to be able to code in the same online terminal with someone (I'm teaching someone Python right now and she's overseas), but I know collaborative editing is a whole different beast. I may even shoot it over to
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by jrubinovitz 15y ago
White on black. Black on white makes me feel like I'm writing an English paper.

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