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Re:How Doughnut-Loving Cops Became a Stereotype on Sunday August 12, 2018 @08:51AM (#17744131)
tldr: In the 1950's, doughnut shops were some of the first food businesses commonly open late at night. They became hot spots for police working the night shift since it gave them a place to grab a snack, fill out paper work, or even just take a break.
Re:Elon Musk wants to take Tesla private on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:47AM (#17724106)
Fair point, thanks. Changed the title to be more accurate.
Re:Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:38AM (#17724036)
Rich made some interesting points on developing libraries in such a manner that it doesn't introduce breaking changes (for the calling code). Does anyone here agree (or have counterpoints) to his suggested approach?
Re:Union Types in Flow and Reason on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:56AM (#16900841)
All your points (1 through 4) matched with what was looking for. I chose Clojure. It's Lispy, focuses on immutable data (but not necessarily pure functions), has a version (cljs) that compiles to javascript (if you're writing web-apps, its great to write both your front-end and backend code in one langauage). I've broadly found clojure to be a "practical" functional language to work in.

(If it helps, I'm primarily a python/js developer before picking Clojure).

Yes, and here's why.

A team's picture gets better when it sees collective participation from a large number of people in the team. Which is why I feel this will beat company LI/FB pages, that are updated by a single person(or a select few)

Got it. Agreed.
Good point.

In (email) targeted recruiting, the recipient will check the company out first. Isn't it worthwhile to build what they would like to see?

IMO Glassdoor reviews suffer from extremity bias. For some reason, most reviews there either sound artificial or angry.

More importantly, glassdoor gathers "what people think of a company". Isn't it more interesting to know "how people think in a company"?

Ask HN: Should I build a tool that helps founders showcase their team?

No matter how we hire, candidates today research the company before talking/applying. What they find is not too helpful. Many startups have good-looking careers pages, but they don't answers questions like "what engg. problems do you solve at XYZ" [1], "What is the interview process at XYZ" [2] etc. These give a much better window into the team than opaque career pages or job descriptions.(This...

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Re:HN Meetup, Bangalore on Thursday April 18, 2013 @07:58AM (#5570034)
Yep, starters on me. Or recruiterbox, to be more precise :)

Look forward.

Re:HN Meetup, Bangalore on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @07:04AM (#5563732)
If you guys are ok, I don't mind sponsoring pizza for the meet. Let me know.
Re:HN Meetup, Bangalore on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @06:59AM (#5563714)
I'll try to make it
Re:A better way to search YouTube for music on Monday July 09, 2012 @09:19AM (#4217967)
@Jonovono How do you ensure that your search is constrained over music videos only?
Re:Mandrill - Transactional Email from MailChimp on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @11:21AM (#4132265)
Does the Mandrill inbound email system parse out quoted text?
Re:Video Interview: Greg Brockman of Stripe on Friday June 08, 2012 @12:21PM (#4084912)
I am curious to know if more companies have seen success with "the Sunday test" type of hiring philosophy that Greg talks about
Re:Show HN: onLinked.in - cool LinkedIn personal URLer on Friday May 18, 2012 @08:12PM (#3994679)
Linkedin public profile URLs are notoriously clumsy to remember and share. I am curious how many people signed up for this.
Re:Building Features for Customer Retention on Friday February 24, 2012 @11:03AM (#3629567)
I think the OP's argument is that a lot of reactive feature-building (irrespective of how they are organized) is a bad idea - especially in the early stages of a product.
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @11:19PM (#2618787)
1) Its hard to say anything conclusively from a conversion perspective yet. 2) A lot of visitors go to the tour before signing up. That is also where they spend most time. 3) Not really. Most pages are still in a transition, and we're trying a bunch of things. Currently, the changes are based on "what we want our users to know", rather than user feedback
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @11:13PM (#2618779)
The current payment system is in transition - we want to eventually move to the recurring payment model like you mentioned. The reason it stands today is that things like managing change of plans, trial periods etc is a big pain with paypal. We're exploring various (non-paypal) alternatives to this.
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:26PM (#2617453)
Hi. I'm one of the creators of Recruiterbox, and pleasantly surprised to see that someone has posted about us us here. Will try my best to answer any questions/comments
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:22PM (#2617440)
Its a good thought, but right now, we're more focused on helping companies just organize their existing way of hiring (and not change their ways themselves)
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:16PM (#2617409)
We're working on a live demo.
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:15PM (#2617404)
I totally relate to this. Most recruitment tools are cumbersome and a job in themselves. We wanted to build something that gets out of your way and gets the job done.

We are django app - do you know Liquid like frameworks for django? Suggestions welcome.

Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:11PM (#2617387)
Good points ... we are trying out a few combinations with the layout - hopefully, we can make it easier for people to do both: find what the app does and register
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:07PM (#2617366)
Yeah, we do ... In fact they were our first clients
Re:Show HN: RecruiterBox on Friday June 03, 2011 @02:07PM (#2617362)
Yes. Subscriptions can be paused/cancelled any time.
Re:HTML preview for doc, docx, pdf & rtf on Thursday May 19, 2011 @08:18AM (#2563664)
Thanks, yeah will do this :)

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