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> As a Hiring Manager, do I need to spend multiple hours with 20 candidates to get a really valuable insight into who they are really like or should I just screen them with a basic exam so I only need to interview the 4 who can do it?

Why is your time more valuable than mine? Why should I invest my personal time in to your hiring process when you can't bother to spend the same amount of your on the job time, to hire someone whos going to add far more value to your company than your company is going to add to their profile?

The problem is some brilliant product manager decided that the reader mode button should not be available on all websites and should only be available on those it seems to be articles.

Wow, I'm very surprised at this. SO is where I got my current job from and IMO it's the best place for searching for jobs in software - esp because it was easy to search for specific requirements (ex visa sponsorship or remote). Running a job board must be much harder than I thought.

From what little I know of NFTs, that piece of paper is most definitely an NFT. Curious as to why you think it's not. Could you explain?

It looks very good for something whipped up in an hour. Did you consider using Redis as a data store for this? Seems like it would be quite easy to just generate a UUID as a key and set it with an expire time in redis. If you did consider Redis, any reason why you didn't end up using it?

The problem is Whatsapp has strong network effects unlike Facebook itself. Most people would be able to quit Facebook and it wouldn't make much of a difference to their lives, whereas cutting off Whatsapp would mean a daily inconvenience when you want to talk to the people closest to you.

With good reason. The free market is not effectively regulated against collusion in India. On the 'free' market, the middle men band together, fix prices, and the farmer ends up getting the short end of the stick. The mandis were originally established to prevent the farmers getting completely squeezed by scrupulous middle men.

They stoke communal sentiments, pit Hindus vs Muslims, make it seem like the minorities are out to destroy the Hindus, and a vast majority of the population just laps it up.

They have a giant misinformation network, which has recruited everybody from bots to popular actors to popular sportspeople and they spread out misinformation in a highly organized manner. Very effective at spreading FUD which translates into votes come election time.

Even now, on Twitter and Reddit you'll find thousands of posts about how the protesting farmers are khalistani terrorists.

Goebbels would be proud of what the BJP have accomplished.

Thanks for your advice! I'd also like to know if you would consider a non-conventional resume (like a specialized resume website), rather than a conventional word/pdf document, as a positive or a negative?

Yes I am currently based in India, and I know visas can be an issue, but I am specifically talking about openings that are advertised as 'Visa Sponsored'.

> forms are a complete mess to work with

Could you elaborate on this? I've been creating form heavy react apps for a couple of years now and haven't really come across anything that would make it 'a mess'.

I'd do something like this: have the user load up X dollars upfront. When they set the time they want to wake up, configure it such that if they don't hit a button on your site within half an hour from their wake up time, the money automatically deducts.

This appears to be a bug in your browser extension. All list pages show proper TLDs for me.

Wouldn't this be resolved by setting a data-1x property (leaving the src/background-image property blank)and then running javascript to substitute the data-1x property for non-retina devices and data-2x property for retina devices?

If you are going to use this, you should use querySelectorAll('[data-2x]') to select the nodes, rather than getElementsByTagName('*') and then check if each node has a data-2x as is done in the article, for performance reasons[1] and to make your code simpler.

[1] http://jsperf.com/queryselectorall-vs-getelementsbytagname/6...

Hopefully we will not go out of business anytime soon ;)

But to answer your question, we host the tours ourselves and provide you with a small script to insert into your page. And in the event of us going out of business, we will provide an 'offline tour player script' which you can host yourself. This is something we are already developing for some of our clients, who require it for sensitive internal apps, so we should be able to open it up for everybody if the need arises.

Oops, looks like we messed up and disabled user-tracking for that tour. We'll fix it soon. Sorry about that.

Thanks for your feedback. We will be redesigning our landing page in a few days, after we have gathered some more feedback.

It is a super specific product. We designed it to be simple and so one thing but to do it extremely well. In our opinion literally every webapp requires a guided tour. If not to explain the features on their landing page, then to guide users through the actual functionality of the app itself. So IMHO, there is a pretty large market for us. Over the next few weeks we will be writing about how our customers are using Easy Product Tours in their applications.

Thanks for the feedback. We will be looking into optimizing the tour design in the next few days.

Actually, the tour tooltips take on the styles from whatever bootstrap theme that you are using on the site. Since we are using the cosmo theme, all the corners are sharp, and the blue colour is applied.

If you are not using bootstrap, or if you are using the default bootstrap theme on your site, then the colours and corners would be as defined in that theme.

We made it like this so that you dont have to waste time getting your tours to match the look of your site.

Thanks for your comments.

1. Yes, we are planning on writing a few blogs emphasising the need for product tours, which we will be including in our 'cold call' sales emails to newly launched apps.

2. Branding: we chose 'Easy Product Tours' for easy remembrance and google-ability. We think we can build a decent brand around that name.

3. Sounds good. We'll give some thought to how we can implement a refferal program.

1. What if your user switches between computers? Cookies are no longer available, and they will be shown the tour again.

2. The difference is there would be a separation of concerns. The tour functionality should not be part of your app. It should be a separate layer.

3. The tour tooltips will take over the CSS styles of the bootstrap theme you are using. So all the fonts, colors, button styles etc. will be similar to those you are already using on your site.

Differences as such are:

1. User-tracking: we track which users have seen which tours and this data is persisted at our backend. So people are mot repeatedly shown the same tours and distracted from using your app.

2. Apart from including the tour player script you dont have to make any changes to your existing page.

3. We support using your aites own custom Bootstrap themes out of the box, so you dont need to spend time customiZing the look of your tours.

An interview with the designer is available at https://vimeo.com/album/2067663/video/48937359

1. I haven't given it much thought, but MVP should be a barebones forum much without any communities, user pages, private messaging etc. basically an MVP would look like the Ask HN page.

2. The average customer would be the same as that for any other hosted forum i.e. someone without the technical chops to run a forum software themselves, but having the passion to run the community.

Thanks. This is still just an idea in my head. I'm just in the 'gauging interest' phase now. I'll let you know if/when something is available for testing.

Yeah, I agree that it's the communit that makes the forum, but I have talked to quite a few members on different forums serving different niche areas and a lot of them have agreed that a reddit-esque way of presenting discussions would be better. Also, it was mostly the people who spent a lot of time on the forums that usually supported this idea.

Also, shouldn't cleaning up the presentation and making it easy to follow discussion threads heirarchically increase user engagement?

I was thinking of pricing based on pageviews/month.

This comment was originally posted by shasty ut for some reason has since been deaded. I thought it was worth reposting:

Over commenting is a bad practice. Comments should be reserved for code which is difficult to understand no matter how well it can be written.

Forcing a developer to constantly shift between the english language and a programming language takes up precious screen space and insults the developer by constantly making her switch gears.

Inline comments are the worst abused. After that method doc for the purposes of supposed documentation.

A well named class in a stable framework needs no documentation as long as its interface is intuitive.

Chances are you are interacting with really bad systems and want some help. If the code is that bad, I doubt the developers comments would be much better.

No comments is the best if you can get away with it and have a self documenting set of interfaces.