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dzohrob

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previously cofounder and ceo, chartable.com (acquired by spotify)

also previously @ angellist, hotornot, etc.

http://zohrob.com https://twitter.com/dzohrob

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What do you actually do with your wearable health data?

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blog.outrank.nyc 8y ago

From zero to 30k downloads in 2 weeks: How we started the Hacker Daily podcast

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hackerdaily.co 8y ago

Show HN: Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers

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hackerdaily.co 8y ago

Hacker Daily – A daily podcast for Hacker News readers

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www.theverge.com 13y ago

US Commerce Dept infected by malware; destroys $170k in equipment to stop it

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allthingsd.com 13y ago

Ben Horowitz on the CEO change at Zynga

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blog.lookmark.com 13y ago

The Most Engaging Sites on Hacker News

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lookmark.com 13y ago

Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome)

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: The NYC office market sucks. Share with us?

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zohrob.com 14y ago

Don't put your career in stealth mode

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zohrob.com 14y ago

The death of the master builder

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www.kernelmag.com 14y ago

The Age of AngelList

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gigaom.com 15y ago

Bringing Sand Hill Road to cyberspace

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techcrunch.com 15y ago

Beautylish: Three Men Set Out To Redefine The Female Beauty Business Online

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www.indexoncensorship.org 15y ago

Radiohead bassist on Internet music distribution & technology

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code.google.com 15y ago

Redis 2.0.0 Stable is out

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www.nytimes.com 17y ago

Masters of the (Tabletop) Universe

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www.economist.com 17y ago

Balls and brains -- Smart men have better sperm

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www.alexa.com 18y ago

Alexa changes their ranking scheme

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readr.com 18y ago

Readr -- my latest site. Feedback is appreciated.

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muhammadsaleem.com 18y ago

i invented facebook too. how about you?

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Having Kids 7 years ago

As a counterpoint, this essay resonated with me very deeply, and I earn a low salary for an engineer in NYC.

We do fine as a family and have to make compromises I couldn’t have imagined making prior to having kids, but it’s totally worth it.

This type of experience isn’t universal but doesn’t require massive wealth.

Chartable | New York, NY | Onsite or REMOTE in USA | Product engineer

Do you love podcasts?

Chartable's mission is to grow and serve the digital audio market, starting with world-class tools for the podcast industry.

We believe in the power of podcasts. We founded Chartable after we started our own, and we were surprised that there was so little data available to podcasters. So we set out to fix that.

We intend to build a lasting, sustainable company that we love to work at. We hope you'll join us.

Learn more about the company: https://chartable.com/about

Apply for the Product Engineer role: https://jobs.lever.co/chartable/782f1de9-3877-4fca-aafd-11bb...

Come be a part of the podcast revolution.

[dead] 8 years ago

Never heard of it, but looks interesting - thanks for sharing. I probably should've been more clear that after decades of curating my MP3 collection, I've moved towards streaming and rarely dig deep into my library for the ripped tracks that aren't available to stream.

[dead] 8 years ago

I agree that I should've framed my post better and I appreciate that feedback.

I do understand that iTunes is dealing with a long history of development, and that it has to support lots of use cases that probably explain a lot of the rough edges — I even allude to that in my post.

It's amazing that I can still use my decade-old iPod Shuffle with iTunes at all -- that must be a lot of work. But so much has changed since then, and iTunes as an Apple Music client is a genuinely frustrating experience.

I don't expect software to be perfect. But I want iTunes to be better than it is. I'm paying $10/mo for Apple Music, which actually has an incredible library and editorial playlists... they're just nearly impossible to find.

I'd love to have an amazing Apple Music experience that doesn't also need to manage podcasts, TV shows, audiobooks, and almost 2 decades of music players.

[dead] 8 years ago

Thanks for the counterpoint, I appreciate it. FWIW I've generally stuck with it since 2003, but I've been more and more frustrated with it recently.

[dead] 8 years ago

Fair question. I am an Apple Music subscriber, so iTunes is the only Apple Music desktop client I'm aware of.

[dead] 8 years ago

Fair question. I am an Apple Music subscriber, so iTunes is the only Apple Music desktop client I'm aware of.

[dead] 8 years ago

Totally fair feedback, thanks. I thought about phrasing it in a different way, but ended up letting my emotions get the better of me.

[dead] 8 years ago

agree, the modals are insane! iOS does better, it's pretty crazy how poorly the desktop has kept up.

Thanks for the feedback— the setup we have is less than ideal. We’re both using a Blue Snowball mic, and I’m recording in the supply closet of my shared office (finding quiet space in NYC is hard, especially with kids at home!)

Going to try switching to a dynamic mic with a tighter pickup pattern, but the one I tried on Amazon from CAD was faulty (crazy buzzing around 1khz), so waiting for the next delivery...

Hi HN, We got a great response to our initial post about Hacker Daily last week, and we're back with our first episodes.

Everything is a work-in-progress... we're calling it the "minimum viable podcast." We hope to make it better every day, with your help. We'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks!

UPDATE: To everyone worried about their privacy on AngelList: We’re sorry. Thanks for all your feedback.

We’ve made more changes:

1) We stopped using the first-person on all emails. We wrote that first-person notification literally 5 years ago when we had a few thousand users, and we never re-visited it. It was pretty stupid. Now they all clearly come from AngelList.

2) We won’t send notifications to companies when you add them to a project. We used to because the project shows up on the company profile too. But it’s not what people expect, so we stopped, and we stopped showing the projects on company profiles too.

Thanks again.

Dave

AngelList

(Posting at top-level in case people miss it as a reply)

UPDATE: To everyone worried about their privacy on AngelList: We’re sorry. Thanks for all your feedback.

We’ve made more changes:

1) We stopped using the first-person on all emails. We wrote that first-person notification literally 5 years ago when we had a few thousand users, and we never re-visited it. It was pretty stupid. Now they all clearly come from AngelList.

2) We won’t send notifications to companies when you add them to a project. We used to because the project shows up on the company profile too. But it’s not what people expect, so we stopped, and we stopped showing the projects on company profiles too.

Thanks again.

Dave

AngelList