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by lpolovets 17y ago
Cool idea for indirectly measuring HN browser usage =) I expected IE to be pretty unpopular among the HN crowd, but less than 3%? Wow.
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by lpolovets 17y ago
> It's the same as pretty much any big company - underperformers are notified that they're underperforming, put on a performance improvement plan to help improve their performance, and if they still don't improve, they're fired. On the
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by lpolovets 17y ago
buzz.com is a really good domain name for something like this, but I can't think of a single instance where a Fortune 500 company tried to build a strong community and succeeded.
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by lpolovets 17y ago
A few more pricing possibilities: - The StackOverflow careers approach: a posting costs $X until some date, then $Y after. Y >> X. This is similar to your free beta idea. - Charge per applicant. Maybe $10 to post, first application
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by lpolovets 17y ago
From the employer's perspective: In your FAQs, you mention that there are no refunds. I'd urge you to reconsider. I worked on LinkedIn Jobs when it first launched. Initially, traffic was low and some postings didn't get a single applicant.
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Great implementation! Most of your visitors will be coming because they want to learn a language from a cheat sheet or have a quick reference. This seems like a great target audience for Amazon links. If you had 2-3 books you recommended in
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by lpolovets 17y ago
I wonder if blog posts like this noticeably affect the trends on the site. (e.g. will okcupid see a higher proportion of photos w/pets in the near future?) Also, the idea of applying results like these seems suboptimal. If you didn't post a
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Nice homepage. Some screenshots would be very helpful in evaluating the product. Not sure if you've considered different business models, but mint.com's strategy of offering cost saving alternatives could work well here. Something like "you
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Looks awesome! Without necessarily being negative about Flash-based games, I think your homepage should clearly mention that users only need Javascript enabled. Seems like a very strong selling/marketing point for developers.
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Sadly, articles like this are always timely.
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by lpolovets 17y ago
I clicked on the link and got the interstitial advertisement page for 15 seconds. It's kind of silly that I need to go through an ad just to see the homepage . I understand that they need to cover their costs with ads, and it's great that
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Two recommendations: 1) More info about who you are. When you start the form with "Will and I", that doesn't mean too much to most people who don't know either of you. 2) More quantitative choices. For example, one of the questions is: How
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Here's another data point: I downloaded jquery-1.3.2.js and jquery-1.3.2.min.js from http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Current_Release > wc -c jquery-1.3.2.js 120763 > wc -c jquery-1.3.2.min.js 57254 > java -jar compil
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by lpolovets 17y ago
I've been using Safari on and off for about 5 years now. Their book collection is awesome . Along with programing books, they have a bunch of great stuff on photography, business, and other subjects of interest to hackers and entrepreneurs
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Instead of listing your responsibilities, talk about concrete numbers and achievements. If you list things like "interfaced with QA", "participated in planning with product management", or "used JSPs and Servlets to write web-based mail cli
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Thanks for the hints. Another hint for 4a: thinking in terms of the binary/bit representation helped me a lot as well.
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by lpolovets 17y ago
The prices seem insanely high, and the most expensive plan also has a bizarre structure ( http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/pricing.html ). After you pass your initial 10 million request quota, the per request price is higher than during
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by lpolovets 17y ago
This is half answer/half tangent, but I like http://www.google.com/codesearch a lot for browsing and reading code. A fun thing to do is to look at how others implement something you want to implement, or use some library you want to use.
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Awesome name. I like the design, but I think it would be better if you had more movies that were already voted on in the first screen. My first impression was "okay, here are a bunch of things that I can vote on tomorrow... not sure what to
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Nice idea. A few features that might be neat: - let people rate courses - have groupings of courses (the newbie section, the system/compiler/database section, the OOP section, the algorithm section, etc) - tag courses with their programming
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by lpolovets 17y ago
A few days ago, there was a post on LinkedIn's blog that discussed the results of the survey: http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/06/19/nico-posner-translating-...
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by lpolovets 17y ago
Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki is excellent, and covers everything from PR to marketing to legal. Some parts are advice on how to approach various aspects of starting up while other parts are more "nuts and bolts." (on average, the book stay
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by lpolovets 18y ago
Michael Michalko has two excellent books on creativity: Thinkertoys ( http://www.amazon.com/Thinkertoys-Handbook-Creative-Thinking... ) and Cracking Creativity ( http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Creativity-Secrets-Creative-G... ) They