jonathanmarcus

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Comment · 7 years ago

Staked | Boston or New York | Full Time + Onsite

Staked operates highly available and highly secure, institutional grade staking infrastructure for leading proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols. Our infrastructure is deployed in a multi-tier signing and listening cloud configuration using Kubernetes that combines geographic diversity and redundancy across on premise data centers and cloud providers. We are well funded by leading cryptocurrency funds, and have significant customer traction and early momentum.

Open Positions: Full-Stack Web Developer, Security Engineer, Smart Contracts Engineer and Blockchain Engineer

To apply, please visit https://staked.us/jobs/ or email jonathan at staked dot us directly.

Comment · 7 years ago

Staked | Boston or New York | Full Time + Onsite

Open Positions: Full-Stack Web Developer, Security Engineer, Smart Contracts Engineer and Blockchain Engineer

To apply, please visit https://staked.us/jobs/ or email jonathan at staked dot us directly.

Comment · 8 years ago

"Generic fonts"

The web had ~ 5 system fonts before Web Fonts were available in 2008 / 2009.

Now the web has many thousands of the best fonts ever created by the world's best foundries.

Comment · 8 years ago

My apologies.

Comment · 8 years ago

https://cosmos.network/ The Internet of Blockchains called; they'd like their name back.

Comment · 8 years ago

"The chart below shows that, of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, some - like EOS, Cardano, Monero, and Bitcoin - have had a lot more commits than others - like Populous or Bitconnect". Since Bitconnect is a now defunkt ponzi scheme and not a cryptocurrency, their lack of Github activity makes sense :) This analysis would be more helpful if the author properly curated the projects / tokens to include in the study.

Comment · 9 years ago

Teachable (http://teachable.com) | Full-Stack Developers | New York, NY (Flatiron) | Full-Time | Onsite

Teachable is a leading teacher-focused online course platform designed for educators who want their own branded online presence. Our goal is to give online course creators the tools and resources they need to earn money from teaching. We are among the fastest growing online course platforms in the industry, with teachers expected to generate $125 MM+ in course sales on Teachable in 2017.

We are looking for Ruby/Rails generalists with broad experience across the web development stack. Candidates must have an expertise in Ruby/Rails, Angular (or similar framework) and MySQL (or Postgres). A C.S. or B.S. degree is strongly preferred.

We offer competitive salary, equity and health benefits.

Please send resume, cover letter and code samples to jonathan + HN at teachable.com

Comment · 9 years ago

Bryce Roberts from OATV is trying to offer an alternative path via his http://indie.vc program.

Comment · 11 years ago

The part about Homejoy needing to keep up with Handy's flood of Groupon 'deals' just further drove home how destructive Groupon has been for businesses, except Groupon, which still has a multi-billion dollar public market valuation. Groupon should really be called Pandora's Box.

Comment · 11 years ago

AWS launched in 2006, while Google App Engine launched in 2008 and Google Compute Engine launched in 2012. But Amazon has always moved significantly faster than Google in the IaaS market, introducing the most comprehensive suite of infrastructure services and relentlessly undercutting on price. AWS has been consistently innovative while Google has long played catch-up at far too slow a pace.

Comment · 11 years ago

What a hyperbolic post. There is no reason to put a company on blast like this. There is a real team of people likely working exceptionally hard to operate Slack. You could have just written a post extolling the benefits of Gitter, and gone about your day of adding more campers to your project. I'm guessing Slack didn't beg for your business or community endorsements.

Comment · 11 years ago

We're a very small company (10 FTEs), but we have been anything but impressed with Zenefits as a customer. We only use them for medical and dental insurance, but in reality, they provide very little, if any value. The Zenefits software is really nothing special, and in fact, the onboarding UI is pretty poor. Now that we have our insurance, Zenefits adds zero value to us. We deal directly with United and Zenefits collects a 10% commission on our monthly premiums. Its a genius business model, and little else.

Zenefits doesn't have any intrinsic rights to ADP's system. Twitter killed off plenty of companies when it decided to shut down the 3rd party ecosystem. Facebook obviously maintains similar strategic control over it's API. How many case studies must there be for companies to understand that building on another company's platform always carries business and strategic risks?

Comment · 11 years ago

Twitter has become the definitive source for breaking news, rumors and off the cough analysis in Sports. Scoops always appear on Twitter considerably faster than ESPN, etc. During free agency periods, all of the rumors and news breaks on Twitter first because all of the top traditional journalists and bloggers use Twitter as their primary distribution channel. If I were running ESPN, I would have tried my hardest to head this off years ago, perhaps by emulating the StockTwits strategy or something, but at this point, Twitter is the breaking source for Sports information, not ESPN. And that's why I use it multiple times per day on the web.

Comment · 12 years ago

Weebly's traction and capital efficiency are remarkably impressive.