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grdekenon Equinox.space

Really impressive, congratulations. How many hours of TLC went into building this?

grdekenon Algorithm edits every sales demo into a highlight-reel video

Both of themes movies center around fraud. Surely you can find something else?

grdekenon Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work

Looks like a European university. Would love to see that same study done on the U.S. population...

grdekenon Brian Chesky on Ron Conway

I didn't say it's crap. It said it's unremarkable. He is welcome to do (or not do) w/e he wants.

grdekenon Brian Chesky on Ron Conway

I mean... 90 billion and this is the best he could come up with? An award for one YC company per batch. I guess it's kind of cool, but it's unremarkable at best.

grdekenon Neoliberalism and the End of Democracy [pdf]

Here is a list of the author's work. This is very consistent with "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and numerous bodies of work that highlight the tactics used. This essay (if not an academic article) was interesting for providing more context and subtext around the drivers for the movement. It's honestly a political and economic masterclass regardless of your ethical position. https://www.jasonhickel.org/#/academic-work/

grdekenon Your Life Is Worth $10M, According to the Government [video]

Seems high

grdekenon Time is the only real currency we have

Clearly you have not heard of memes, the only currency that matters.

grdekenon The Startup Employee's Real Guide to Stock Options

Thought this was a great piece on options worth reading in a time where many are getting laid off and/or options are under water.

grdekenon I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M

This is wishful thinking at best.

grdekenon Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder?

We've been working on https://www.unstack.com to provide one comprehensive toolset for building and scaling up a static site. Would love to hear feedback from HN.

grdekenon Startup Benchmarks

Super helpful. Thanks!

grdekenon Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy

Can we overlay the use of plastics? Which is curiously absent from this study?

grdekenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

Spark (https://spark.app) | FE Eng. | Boston, MA, Portland, ME, REMOTE | Full-Time https://www.spark.app/careers/front-end-react-developer

Spark (https://spark.app) | Full Stack SWE | Boston, MA, Portland, ME, REMOTE | Full-Time | https://www.spark.app/careers/full-stack-django-react-develo...

Spark brings content and data analytics together to help SaaS businesses grow faster. Backed by top tier investors including Accomplice.

Reach me at grant@spark.app with any questions and to set up time to chat.

grdekenon Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

Just build your login form like this. https://my.spark.app/login

grdekenon BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers

This is misleading. All employees got 2.5 months of salary. Do you want your 2-3 weeks of PTO or would rather take 10 weeks of paid leave? Legit fake news.

grdekenon Overdose deaths have fallen for six months

I know that in many states where there are serious problems they have provided narcan to all first responders. I'm wondering if this is a bit of a false positive in the data. The addiction levels could be the same, just fewer people dying of overdose because more access to narcan. HN WDYT?

grdekenon Show HN: Spark CMS – “The easiest CMS I've ever used” (alpha)

Right now, we're building automated multivariate testing on our structured section types for optimizing lead gen.

grdekenon YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals

Have you looked into LBRY?

grdekenon Review and Teardown of a Cheap GPS Jammer

grdekenon American Equity

Pretty sure we're already doing this today. Take a look at any cap table and note the disproportionate amount of ownership between founders/investors and employees.

grdekenon American Equity

Take a look at any cap table. The wealthy and founders own the majority of shares.

grdekenon Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life

Save cash. Travel. Expand your horizons. The answer will come to you.

grdekenon Show HN: Talk to website visitors right from Slack

Intercom is getting cost prohibitive for us, so this could be a good alternative.

grdekenon Ask HN: How did you get to your current job/startup?

I couldn't afford to finish the last semester of college. Lived with some other friends in a not-so-nice area of town, riding a moped a few miles to work for a company to learn internet marketing while getting paid $7.00 an hour.

Started my own web design and internet marketing shop, which proved to be much harder than I thought because I didn't know shit about running a business. Caught a break with a startup building out their website and web assets and doing marketing. Marketing director got fired, I filled that role and got a raise.

Left that company after two years to co-found a startup. Raised a little money. Tought myself product design and front-end.

Startup was unsuccessful, but I used the skills I learned to land a gig at MIT doing product design and front-end dev. Did that for a while. Jumped from 40k to almost 100k.

Left MIT to lead product at a vc backed startup making 6 figures with a good bit of equity. That's where I am today.

Tomorrow, who knows...

grdekenon Editing humanity

This seems like a rip of this month's Wired cover piece (which was fantastic).

grdekenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

Senior Engineer / Team Lead / VPE - Grapevine

Boston, MA. Onsite, relocation available

Grapevine (http://www.grapevinelogic.com) is a platform connecting consumer brands with online content creators to produce awesome original sponsored content. We launched our platform a year ago and have seen tremendous growth. After taking gold in MassChallenge and raising a $1.1m in VC we're ready to move even faster. We're looking for someone interested in marketplaces and marketing software to bring engineering leadership to our team and help us continue to delight our users.

Inqure within: grant@grapevinelogic.com

grdekenon MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security Final Projects

I was a consultant for MIT and a student decided his final project would be to hack the custom LMS system we were working on. To our surprise, he figured out at least two ways before letting us know he was working on a final project. Gotta love MIT.

grdekenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

Grapevine, Boston, MA. http://www.grapevinelogic.com

We're a profitable, seed funded, fast-growing MassChallenge finalist looking for a lead designer to join our team.

Grapevine brings advocates and brands together to execute large-scale marketing campaigns through a powerful end-to-end marketing & audience analytics platform. Hundreds of brands rely on Grapevine to create compelling, trustworthy, and original content reaching millions of engaged consumers every day.

http://bit.ly/grapevine-designer

grdekenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

Cambridge/Boston - Python Engineer

Stealth startup in Adtech space is looking for a lead developer. We are five people right now, and closed out the quarter with $250k in pre-launch sales.

Job description and Compensation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7N6dJ_gGH41Q3IIPVSg_V7V...