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If the problem is technical, the candidates get their feedback immediately. Either they themselves know they botched up the question, or they are given the clue via absence of a follow up question. The best thing you could due to salvage such situations is to ask what the right answer is. That not only serves as feedback but also signals that you are willing to know.

The feedback you don't get, is almost always about personality. There's no litigation-safe way of saying "Man, you come across as a total douche, I'll pass"

>If you talk to hiring managers you’ll hear that they wish there was a way to provide feedback to rejected job applicants

No, million times no. Providing feedback to a rejected applicant may open a huge can of worms. If these hiring managers really exist they are putting their employers in a very risky situation.

Publishers are Google's product. The bans are a product quality assurance exercise for them.

They do not really lose any business when they cut out a publisher. They almost always have plenty of other options to display their inventory on.

Selling your stuff(books, videos, seminars etc) beats any kind of advertising hands down. Selling your advertisement spots yourself is the second best, if you can pull it. Affiliate programs seem to do well for some bloggers.

If you are after an ad network, there's no one that can beat Adsense, I am afraid.

Good point. I say I never sign an NDA, full stop. There's no way that I can know their competitors are working on the same idea.

Are you aware of the fact that HN is open source? There's also Reddit and Lamernews. You can pick one and re-skin for your purposes I suppose.

I don't think so. I am not developing this app at a great pace for a while. I changed this one thing and see a continuing impact on traffic.

http://this11.com - It's a soccer tactics app.

I have a freemium app and I recently stopped asking for an account for the free tier. Traffic tripled and so did the premium accounts. So yes, I can attest that frictionless on boarding increases sales.

It's just like any other business transaction. If the company wanted you not to bail out at the last minute, they would have signed a contract that stops you from doing that. Did they do that? If not, you don't have any obligations and a reason to feel like an ass.

How's your retention rate? I'd bet your numbers are really bad and that's probably why you're not building any traffic.

Your content is just not consumable. I clicked one of your links, it's just a wall of text. I couldn't bring myself to read it. The first couple of sentences did not make me want to read the rest of it. I can't skim through and get an idea what you are talking about.

I will probably never be a returning visitor to your blog. That's because I have the attention span of a 5 year old when I browse the internet in discovery mode. Most people are like me.

Maybe you can work on making your writing more consumable. Use more pictures, bullet points, sub headings, shorter paragraphs...Maybe you can A/B test how you present your articles.

Just my 2 pence...

I am finding it hard to believe that this will be such a landgrab. The demand to already existing non .com TLDs doesn't indicate that there will be a huge demand for new ones.

I wonder what's the likelihood of an actual dinosaur's survival in our current atmosphere. Oxygen levels might just be not high enough.

Terrible choice of domain name. Defence league is generally used by right wing extremist organisations.

Try just mentioning instead of replying. Reply triggers the spam filter straight away, as you've experienced yourself.

No I don't have numbers in hand. I remember a few developers sharing their numbers here, though. Maybe you can search.

I have the impression that Android apps make money with ads rather than purchases. It is possible to make money, just with different approaches.

The skills and experience you'd gain doing Android development is transferable to iOS anyway. It won't be a total waste if things don't go to plan.

I can walk into a phone shop and buy a contract-free, sim-free smartphone for £50. Sure, it's low end but it is a smartphone. It looks pretty upside-down to me.

How much runway do you have? If you have enough savings to survive without bringing a dime in for, say, 3 months, give it a shot. If things don't work out, you can always find another job.

Did Schrödinger's cat just meow? People will try to submit their stuff during good times and skew the data soon.

I am paying about $18 per month for my linode instance. I am not going to migrate to $10 a month VPS for a saving of $8 per month. Linode knows this and is under no pressure to drop their prices.

It would be a totally different story of mu hosting needs costed me $1000s.

I once built a task queue using redis, start-stop-daemon and php. start-stop-daemon can turn vanilla php scripts(or any kind of script for that matter) to a worker.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will probably add these to a paid version.

Thanks. Would it help if I increase the padding of the court a bit?

How would I know where it goes? A porn site? Phishing site?

I have a few elderly relatives who I help with their technology issues. Clamshell phones are by far the most comfortable devices for that age group. They don't feel comfortable with pressing the green button to receive a call, but opening the clam is immediately second nature.

Use a css framework, at least to begin with. I used bootstrap.js at my latest project: http://v0t.es It's not going to win any design awards but it's better than anything I could have come up with by myself.

Clickable: http://v0t.es

A show of hands type of poll web-application. I'll keep it small enough to be finished in the next 2 days.

You are aware of the fact that NK is PRC's puppet state, aren't you? NK will live on as it is, till PRC ceases tp support it.