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So if I keep drinking glucose every now and then would it benefit in keeping my willpower up?

It won't prevent it, will just reload automatically when the page expires

Thanks!

Wanted the site to more informative. Video dosen't really convey anything. When I clicked on the title: "Quickly build beautiful web apps"- I was expecting something totally different

Why was this article removed from HN home page?

* I'll see what I can do. * I am using Lucida Grande, but it needs to be installed on the machine. * Should I move it down like 2 pixles? Seems fine on my machine though

Thanks for the feedback. I am not english native - ran the blog through a online-grammer-checker something and it said everything is fine :)

Yeah thats true. But frankly I never got why practically "everybody" takes their screenshots on a mac - It's almost like I've to go buy a mac just to take the screenshots and do my screencasts.

P.s: I did buy a mac last year.

Hi. Thanks. Yeah noticed that too. Seems like bug in chrome? Can you try on firefox. That's the one where everything seems to be working just fine. reading localfiles, canvas and save image.

:), thanks, that'll cost server resource. I don't know if I can run it for free. I'll try though

Hi OP Here: Safarishot is a Js tool that will wrap your screenshots (taken on any os) in a nice safari window running on a mac.

1) That'll be cool and in fact easily implemented. One of the reason why it din't do it was Candidates need to setup the server and stuff. Some might readily have it, some might not, which might skew the overall time taken.

2) Agreed, may be ask them to login through facebook or twitter before solving the challenge?

3) Launched it like 20 days back :). I wanted a more complete demo with voice over but some suggested that my indian accent would turnoff a lot of audience. Have mailed a few voice over guys.

Over all, all the 3 can be done, will mail you once I have them in.

Thanks for taking the time to checkout cull.io!

Got it! Thanks. Will try. May be eat my own dogfood and try and give it free for anyone who would solve a challenge :)

I kind of don't get it. Why do big companies buy other successful companies just to shut it down? Can't they just rebrand it or something? If they can't why even buy? Just for acquiring the technical talent?

Please mail me if you want to integrate kaushik[at]cull.io

You mean as in a better design? This was designed by me and I am not that good designer. Will try to make it better

Thanks! Yes and yes. It is limited to request and response type of challenges and candidates have to deploy on localhost. Because of this limitations though, candidats can choose any language, library or framework and you need not limit yourself to algorithmic questions. A question for example can be "Find the top article on hacker news"

Launched http://cull.io 20 days ago. Revenue made till now $150. Spent: appengine $10, musicbakery: $47. (I don't really know how to cost my time, it's around three weeks to build).

Not lying. Even I am not sure why this happens though. I think two things are at play:

a) You could survive in big enough company without coding (You survive by tinkering xml files, db records, monitoring the servers.. stuff like that)

b) Most interviews don't require you to code. They rely on stuffs like puzzles, knowledge of complex algorithms and asking you explain things about your previous work. So a candidates keeps getting good at that since that's what is required to get the next job.

But i am not entirely sure. It surprises me too.

+1 and Agree. It's wrong to get free work. However, just out of curiosity how would you have felt if the employer has actually paid you for those "small projects"? (To be clear: No guarantee that you will get the Job, but payment is guaranteed for the hours you put in)

Got it. Thanks. I'll see how I can word it better.

Thanks! Will fix.

Yes that's a valid point. We do ask the candidate to submit the source code once the they have solved the challenge. So employers who need only say "Rails" developers can mention it in the instructions and check the source later.

"However, as a very quick "can this candidate actually write code" filter, I think you're well on track."

Yes, that's exactly what I wanted this to be. Quickly filter out the 80% and move to the next stage where you can do much better justice reviewing the candidate's past work, working with the candidate on a project etc.

Thanks, I never thought of it that way. Will check.

Thanks!

Well yes, but thats applicable any remote interviews. Or even telephonic interviews. As a solution you could have the candidate solve a challenge on premise. or having him explain the code or make small modification on premise(what i do, if I have a doubt)

Will fix. thanks.

Got it. Din't think of that. thanks. It'll be a nice to perform all requests relative to a webapp directory. Will send you a mail once it's done.

Any suggestions for better music?

Thanks! I'd love your feedback. You can mail me kaushik [at] cull.io

Yes. Thanks for mentioning.