keiretsu

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by keiretsu 19y ago
it's called probability. It just depends on how you define a good employee and a bad employee and based on that definition, you can prepare a hiring program and test if that program works. Almost all successful companies have some sort of v
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by keiretsu 19y ago
ok fine. if iq tests are such a bad idea, what verifiable tests are there that can be used to classify a good employee and a bad employee? I'm sorry but gut feel just doesn't cut it.
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by keiretsu 19y ago
hiring based on "feel" is like trading based on "feel". My back hurts. Damn, short this stock. Oh god. I feel alive whenever i see this stock. Buy! it's always good to base your hiring on something that is testable. Call me crazy but hiring
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by keiretsu 19y ago
the gist is to check if the site is accurate
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by keiretsu 19y ago
see my comment below. I'm not planning to ask them to take a full blown iq tests. Just those "iq games" that i find are empirically good in classifying the smart from the non-smart
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by keiretsu 19y ago
so you are inferring that there is enough statistical evidence to prove the hypothesis that a high iq person does not make for a good employee.
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by keiretsu 19y ago
yes. i will talk to them, give them problems and see how they respond. but iq test is still useful. by the way, i'm not asking them to do those full blown iq test. Just those fun-and-games "test" like http://www.lumosity.com. This site re
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by keiretsu 19y ago
what does it say about the employer?
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by keiretsu 19y ago
actually, i would look at SAT. Not as a major decision point, but just one small factor in the entire hiring process. IQ test would take another small factor. Personality another factor, Familiarity with the domain you are hiring for anothe
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by keiretsu 19y ago
planning to hire some people soon. any recommendations on how to gauge if they are any good? I need some statistically significant tests that can weed out those loafers. Know of any?
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hiring good employees. iq tests, what else?
6 points by keiretsu 19y ago|45 comments
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by keiretsu 19y ago
I've already done this. Got a minor speed bump. You have to understand that the majority of the page loading time is in the instantiation of the AR object, not from fetching the db result. At least that's my experience in my app.
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by keiretsu 19y ago
Finally! Somebody who felt the pains of having a popular Rails site. I feel your pain my friend.
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by keiretsu 19y ago
yeah. i agree. tried python. the language is really ugly compared to ruby. django just doesn't fit into my brain like RoR does.
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by keiretsu 19y ago
maybe because i've time-profiled it? maybe because i've calculated the time it took to instantiate a new AR object for every new db record? maybe because the results show that the AR component took the largest portion of the page loading ti
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by keiretsu 19y ago
tried caching at the activerecord level with memcached. Yes, there was a speed increase but still there is a noticeable page loading time lag. It doesn't load craigslist fast.
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by keiretsu 19y ago
First of all, i don't wish to try to start a flame war. Just want to share some of my experience with RoR. RoR, to me, is the pinnacle of web programming orgasm. It's fun, it's fast, it's super productive. Hell, i never enjoyed web programm
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Warning: RoR is slow
21 points by keiretsu 19y ago|58 comments
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by keiretsu 19y ago
freemium models ain't that great. i read somewhere, i think it was that vitaminxxx site by the dropsend founder, that the average % of premium subscribers is a pathetic 2%.
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by keiretsu 19y ago
Pros: You are able to send email updates to users. Cons: Duplicate users. Misdemeanor: Imagine if someone uses the whitehouse or fbi email addresses. Then he keeps on clicking on "Retrieve password" and you would start spamming the whiteho
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Do you force your new users to verify their email addresses?
6 points by keiretsu 19y ago|6 comments
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by keiretsu 19y ago
The first 3 days were just irrelevant braindead posts such as "Here is how you earn $XXXXXX in 1 day", "I just found the secret to getting rich" etc. These posts have absolute no relevance to the forums or my site. But nevertheless, people
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by keiretsu 19y ago
oops :) corrected
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by keiretsu 19y ago
this one will fail so badly so fast you would start to wonder why the VCs fund them
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by keiretsu 19y ago
I recently did an experiment with one of my sites (don't ask what site it is). This is what I did. For 3 days, i spammed some forums with irrelevant headlines that only dumb people would fall for. such as "I made $XXXXX in 1 day. See how i
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Adsense as a biz model is doomed
9 points by keiretsu 19y ago|22 comments
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by keiretsu 19y ago
sold out too cheaply. given their leadership position, they should have ask for at least $500m
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by keiretsu 19y ago
he has options to buy up to 40% stake
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by keiretsu 19y ago
Immediately. He's taking 5% equity in exchange for no salary (He got other biz that he is earning his money from) In a way, this 5% is sort of compensation for his consultation/advisory services, albeit more hands on. He ask for 5% equity p
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by keiretsu 19y ago
Assuming you just got yourself a new co-founder for your year-old startup, should you elect him as a director too, besides giving him equity?

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