Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by mark212 on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:22PM (#18276977)

the jobs link is interesting. Takes you to a functioning command line but has no other hints or instructions. An interesting gating function: those who don't know how to proceed further (or can't problem-solve sufficiently to find out) aren't likely to succeed in the role and can safely be excluded.

Might also have the added bonus of being safe from headhunter bot scrapers.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by luizfzs on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:51PM (#18278385)

I see a shell, I type `ls`. It's how life works.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by justbaker on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:22PM (#18279088)

`pwd` -- "where am i...?"

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by toomuchtodo on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:25AM (#18281146)

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by avip on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:20PM (#18278630)

That's hands down the best job posting ever made by humans, for humans.

But alas

  $ fgrep -r remote open-positions
  open-positions/community-manager.txt:SF (remote OK)

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by disconcision on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:09PM (#18277383)

For me, it seems to be stuck at 'Connecting'. If I mash buttons I can get a glimpse of the command line, even see flashes of messages if I enter two-letter commands quick enough. Is this a bug or part of the test?

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by mikeleeorg on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:51PM (#18277793)

Do you have any browser extensions running? It's possible one of them is causing some problems with their IDE.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:11PM (#18277404)

Hmm, weird. What browser/OS? Also any errors in the JS console?

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by icelancer on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:59PM (#18277883)

ublock origin causes it to timeout with 2 caught scripts, disabling it makes it work FYI.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by laverick on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:56AM (#18282072)

Same issue. iOS w/ Safari & Chrome

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:58PM (#18277283)

link: https://repl.it/site/jobs

it's built with repl.it too: https://repl.it/@util/jerbs

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by as1mov on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:25PM (#18277547)

I tried

  rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

It didn't work :(

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by dsnuh on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:11PM (#18278029)

Homestar Runner reference?

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by tlavoie on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:24PM (#18284766)

Or South Park. "They're taking our jerbs!"

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by sbilstein on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:02PM (#18277928)

thats the most fun I've had with a jobs page ever!

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by Shane325 on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:38PM (#18277105)

Interesting indeed. Definitely weeds out applicants who are not familiar with the command line.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by fastball on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:19PM (#18278103)

I know it's a brave new world, but there isn't a single working developer that isn't at least aware of the command line, right?

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by albertgoeswoof on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:38PM (#18278274)

There are lots of developers that have a build system with ide etc set up for them and never touch the CLI for years. Think iOS and .net

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by khalilravanna on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:30PM (#18278203)

I'd say "aware" and "familiar with" are two totally different groups. And while I'd agree that "aware" seems like it'd approach 100% of the general programmer pop., from my experience "familiar with" is a surprisingly and saddeningly lower than 100% percentage.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by jakebasile on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:02PM (#18277315)

It also weeds out people who don't have time for "cute" little games like that.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by ribosometronome on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:05PM (#18277343)

Sounds like it might also be their way of weeding out people who aren't going to be a culture fit.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by icelancer on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:01PM (#18277911)

It takes literally 10 seconds to run `ls -la` and `cat` some files to get the information. If that's a problem for an applicant, it's a good exclusion to the funnel.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by jakebasile on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:33PM (#18278736)

Like sibling says, on mobile it's a pain. In general, when I look at a job posting, I just want to skim it. I don't want to interact with the webpage in any other way than "reading".

I get it, this is clever. It supposedly weeds out poor applicants. But speaking for myself it just strikes me as annoying.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by icelancer on Monday October 22, 2018 @07:24PM (#18279473)

Do people really apply for jobs on mobile? If I came across it on mobile, I'd just go, oh okay, and read it later on my laptop or desktop.

I'm an admitted anti-mobile person though. I am exceptionally skeptical that the mobile revolution will adequately replace the keyboard/mouse combination for high productivity tasks, and don't wish to see design move entirely in that direction.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by jakebasile on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:09PM (#18279728)

No, but I do a lot of reading on mobile.

If I came across it on mobile, how would I even know if I wanted to read it later?

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by stale2002 on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:03PM (#18278489)

I tried opening this on mobile and it was a horrible experience.

We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by icelancer on Monday October 22, 2018 @07:20PM (#18279435)

> We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.

Most developers do?

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by 9712263 on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:41PM (#18278303)

Actually, grepping necessary information from the files is more efficient than reading a bloated web page from job site with infinite scrolling where your Ctrl + F is not working.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by fileeditview on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:37PM (#18277657)

To be honest it didn't really take more than a few seconds to get the relevant information. So time really isn't the limiting factor here..

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by solarkraft on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:58PM (#18278441)

It's not supposed to be. It's like proving you can write a hello world. program.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by sergiotapia on Monday October 22, 2018 @07:32PM (#18279528)

But it's literally

`cat open-positions/devtools-frontend-engineer.txt`

I also hate games, but this is literally obvious. I spent 3 seconds tab autocompleting the file.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by sjg007 on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:49PM (#18277775)

It's not really a game..

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by sincerely on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:14PM (#18277427)

The jobs link is fun but seems very slow/laggy on my end.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by myroon5 on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:46PM (#18278339)

A lot of the text is overlapping for me on mobile.

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