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jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
LEX Markets | Backend Engineer - Node, Product Manager | New York, NY | Onsite or Remote | https://lex-markets.com

LEX is a new way to invest in real estate. LEX turns individual buildings into public stocks. Any US investor can open a LEX account, browse opportunities in various asset classes such as multifamily and office buildings, and buy shares of individual buildings. As a shareholder, investors earn income when owners pay dividends and can trade their shares on our public market without lockups or hold periods. Each building on LEX has a ticker symbol and stock chart.

We’ve built:

- A retail brokerage app to trade shares of real estate

- A dealflow operation to take buildings public

- An SEC-filed ATS on which those shares can trade

We're a small company (~ 30 people, 10 engineers) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, Mongo, Redis, React, Typescript

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/careers

jtdaugh··on FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
During keynote they said still end-to-end encrypted on web
jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
LEX Markets | Backend Engineer - Node, DevOps Engineer | New York, NY | Onsite or Remote | https://lex-markets.com

LEX is a real estate investing platform giving the everyday investor access to direct investments in commercial real estate for the first time. Users can browse individual properties (ranging from Office space to Retail to Multifamily), buy $250 shares (the IPO price) in each building, earn their share of rental income, and then trade those shares on LEX!

We’ve built:

- A retail brokerage app to trade shares of real estate

- A dealflow operation to take buildings public

- An SEC-filed ATS on which those shares can trade

We're a small company (< 30 people, 10 engineers) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, Mongo, Redis, React, Typescript

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/careers

jtdaugh··on Building an E-Ink Laptop
I think the right way to bring this to market is a snap-on macbook pro display:

https://twitter.com/jtdaugh/status/1348719574481592324?s=20

jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
LEX Markets | Full Stack Engineer - React | New York, NY | Onsite (remote during covid) | https://lex-markets.com

LEX is a real estate investing platform giving the everyday investor access to direct investments in commercial real estate for the first time. Users can browse individual properties (ranging from Office space to Retail to Multifamily), buy $250 shares (the IPO price) in each building, earn their share of rental income, and then trade those shares on LEX!

We’ve built:

- A retail brokerage app to trade shares of real estate

- A dealflow operation to take buildings public

- An SEC-filed ATS on which those shares can trade

We're a small company (24 people, 9 engineers) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, Mongo, Redis, React, Typescript

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/careers

jtdaugh··on Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups
Can't wait to see the demo - signed up!
jtdaugh··on Best way to find a job at a startup
Hacking the startup job search at its finest.

As someone whose inbox has been on the receiving end of some funding announcements recently, this crunchbase method is definitely used more outside of job searching: recruiters, sales folks, etc, all love to jump on a funding announcement.

Wish more engineers, designers and product people used this approach - nothing better than an inbound candidate who gives a shit and can growth hack.

jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
LEX | Senior Full Stack Engineer - React, Senior iOS Engineer | New York, NY | Onsite (remote during covid) | https://lex-markets.com LEX is a real estate investing platform giving the everyday investor access to direct investments in commercial real estate for the first time. Users can browse individual properties (ranging from Office space to Retail centers to Multifamily), buy $100 shares (the initial price) in each building, earn their share of rental income, and then trade those shares on LEX. We're playing within the existing regulations and financial rails, but we have a lot to build!

We're a small company (20 people, 7 engineers) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, Mongo, Redis, React, Typescript, Swift iOS app

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/careers

jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
LEX | Full Stack Engineer - React expertise, Senior iOS Engineer | New York, NY | Onsite (remote during covid) | https://lex-markets.com

LEX is a real estate investing platform giving the everyday investor access to direct investments in commercial real estate for the first time. Users can browse individual properties (ranging from Office space to Retail centers to Multifamily), buy $100 shares (the initial price) in each building, earn their share of rental income, and then trade those shares on LEX. We're playing within the existing regulations and financial rails, but we have a lot to build!

We're a small company (<20 people, 6 engineers) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, React, Typescript, Mongo, Redis

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/careers

jtdaugh··on NYC’s new digital subway map
"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good"

An arrow <-- uptown downtown --> could work in most spots. Or an accurate compass that is tilted 20 degrees from the actual streets, still helpful. Or:

       36th
        ^
        |
9th<-- 35&8 -->7th

        |
        v
       34th
jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
LEX | Backend Engineer/Architect - Node, React Frontend Engineer, Senior iOS Engineer | New York, NY | Onsite (remote during covid) | https://lex-markets.com LEX is a real estate investing platform giving the everyday investor access to direct investments in commercial real estate for the first time.

Users can browse individual properties (ranging from Office space to Retail centers to Multifamily), buy $100 shares (the initial price) in each building, earn their share of rental income, and then trade those shares on LEX. We're playing within the existing regulations and financial rails, but we have a lot to build!

We're a small company (<20 people, 5 engineers) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, React, Typescript, Mongo, Redis

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/careers

jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
LEX | Backend Engineer/Architect - Node, Senior iOS Engineer | New York, NY | Onsite (remote during covid) | https://lex-markets.com

LEX is a real estate investing platform giving the everyday investor access to direct investments in commercial real estate for the first time.

Users can browse individual properties (ranging from Office space to Retail centers to Multifamily), buy $100 shares (the initial price) in each building, earn their share of rental income, and then trade those shares on LEX. We're playing within the existing regulations and financial rails, but we have a lot to build!

We're a small company (<20 people, 5 engineers) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, React, Typescript, Mongo, Redis

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/careers

jtdaugh··on Covid-19 has a 0.05% fatality rate in people under 65 without comorbidities
Another way to look at it: ~700,000 people under 65 die in the US each year.
jtdaugh··on Covid-19 has a 0.05% fatality rate in people under 65 without comorbidities
I can't find hospitalizations broken out by underlying illnesses, but if among each age bracket we assume the % of deaths associated with underlying illness holds as the % of hospitalizations associated with underlying illness, then we get a "healthy under 65" Hospitalization Rate of 0.3% to 0.5%.

Under 65:

7.4M people

1.55M infected

26,000 hospitalizations

4,548 "healthy" hospitalizations (16% of deaths under 65 have no comorbidities. Using same rate here).

800k-1.2M infected w/o comorbidities depending on "healthy rate"

4,548 / 1M = 0.45%

jtdaugh··on Covid-19 has a 0.05% fatality rate in people under 65 without comorbidities
Spreadsheet with data and sources:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bKbRccSVz-u5HtoLK0zb...

jtdaugh··on Covid-19 has a 0.05% fatality rate in people under 65 without comorbidities
Assume you mean who "do" have comorbidities?
jtdaugh··on Covid-19 has a 0.05% fatality rate in people under 65 without comorbidities
NYC's data defines underlying illness as "disease, asthma, heart disease, a weakened immune system, obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease and cancer."

As I point out in the thread, even estimating 50% of people under 65 have an underlying illness (lets say thats 25% under 17, 50% 18-44, and 75% in 45-64 to roughly get us there) moves the "Under 65 healthy IFR" only up to 0.09%.

jtdaugh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
LEX | Full Stack Engineer, Software Engineer - FIX Protocol specialist | New York, NY | Onsite | https://lex-markets.com

LEX is a real estate investing platform giving the everyday investor access to direct investments in commercial real estate for the first time.

Users can browse individual properties (ranging from Office space to Retail centers to Multifamily), buy $100 shares (the initial price) in each building, earn their share of rental income, and then trade those shares on LEX. We're playing within the existing regulations and financial rails, but we have a lot to build!

We're a small company (<20 people) with some great backers working to unlock real estate for the masses.

Tech Stack: Node, Express, React, Typescript, Mongo, Redis

Apply at https://www.lex-markets.com/team

jtdaugh··on The Losers of WWDC
The switch to Bing may have some negative impact on google, but I doubt Apple's alternatives will take any toll on google maps or docs.
jtdaugh··on Facebook buys Parse
straight off the parse blog:

> Q: Will Parse apps have to use Facebook functionality? No.

jtdaugh··on You know, Google, the web already had this feature
this
jtdaugh··on We Are All Equal T-Shirt
I guess this is slightly less "slacktivism" than the facebook profile pic changes.
jtdaugh··on Common JavaScript Gotchas
See this answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5269731

In the second, the var myFunction gets hoisted to the top but not the function definition, which is why calling it produces an error. In the first, the whole function gets hoisted to the top.

jtdaugh··on Show HN: Nowcation - find spontaneous travel deals
Isnt this just a prettier version of expedia or any of those travel sites.
jtdaugh··on MHacks - "The Most Epic Hackathon Ever"
Word is there's gonna be Red Bull girls there :D
jtdaugh··on Is University Necessary? A professor debates a student.
What about a CS student who gets a full-time job offer as a sophomore? Why stick around and pay for school if you can instead be paid to get more valuable real world experience.