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by sgrove 15y ago
When did you realize that? Was it a slow change, or was there an epiphany? And was it a company-wide realization, or was there a champion behind it?
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by sgrove 15y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking. It seems crazy to roll this out instead of parse until there's a very clear reason why - and it's actually going to be more fun to use parse anyway since you get away from this kind of stuff. On top of t
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by sgrove 15y ago
The market they're going at seemed initially insane - how do you get your head around all the chaos that is ride sharing? But this is clearly a team that loved the idea and can execute beautifully. The hard out-of-the-comfort-zone work that
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by sgrove 15y ago
Why not use something like Sauce Labs? I built a screenshotting service on top of them using soda ( https://github.com/learnboost/soda ) a long time ago, and the code's bit-rotted by now, but it was quick and easy, and combined with firefox
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by sgrove 15y ago
It's really cool to see such a small team keep pumping out such sleek products. Really shows that it's about the quality of ideas/hackers that matters, not the size of the team. Congrats guys!
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by sgrove 15y ago
Still, I agree with hugs. Providing the web frontend as a way to connect to freenode might be a good gateway drug to get people using grove, and then have a simple, 'want to have your own private chat? Click here!' or something along those
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by sgrove 15y ago
If you know the available packages. And get really lucky. For most people who haven't done it much before, will have to do some research first, and probably end up shaving yaks for a bit. Grove (I'm honored, by the way) seems like a nice
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by sgrove 15y ago
The goal is laudable, but there's such a small chance of success in startups that selecting for anything other than likelihood to succeed is a dangerous strategy. Is that likelihood to succeed correlated to gender? Possibly, but not so li
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by sgrove 15y ago
It says I can use warrior.health, but that doesn't seem to be true - I constantly get player.rb:5:in `play_turn': undefined method `health' for #<RubyWarrior::Turn:...> (NoMethodError) Not sure if it's supposed to be added in later
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by sgrove 15y ago
There's a line here - I think the interview should cover a lot of bases, but by no means should a hire be a concrete thing. The first two weeks should be an intensive, fully-paid interview/trial-by-fire. I suppose, I just don't see why a sh
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by sgrove 15y ago
This sounds like a great technique. It also gives both sides the chance to talk a problem through, bounce ideas off of one another, and see if there are any interesting insights to be had on the other side of the table. A candidate and inte
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by sgrove 15y ago
All good points. This is just what I remember, and I don't dispute it could be wrong.
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by sgrove 15y ago
I didn't have a car actually. I just scheduled all the interviews as close to possible every day, and walked around SOMA/FiDi from morning until evening going through different stages of different interviews - initial chat (morning coffee/l
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by sgrove 15y ago
Got it, thank you eru!
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by sgrove 15y ago
Rough. But you're free not believe, I don't have a problem with that.
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by sgrove 15y ago
Yeah, it's a positive signal that someone was able to pick up from past failed interviews. It's a weak filter, but it's fine to have. From there, it's best to work with the person on short projects, and then hire them as a contractor to fin
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by sgrove 15y ago
yup.
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by sgrove 15y ago
Nope, it's true. I woke up early in the morning (easy to do sleeping on the kitchen floor in mountain view without a heater), went through craigslist every morning, had an email template I'd individualize for each posting, and send it out.
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by sgrove 15y ago
Yeah, that was more or less the point of the post. For applicants, don't feel nervous, it's a silly game just to see if you know some of the puzzles. For people hiring, go ahead and use this as a first-pass filter, but realize that it's eas
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How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in the valley')(trapm.com)
245 points by sgrove 15y ago|171 comments
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by sgrove 15y ago
Yup, it's a really nice natural filter. If the companies don't feel comfortable doing themselves what they've asked you to do, you should probably duck out of there with a polite declination as quickly as possible.
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by sgrove 15y ago
I started replying, and it turned into a long story: http://trapm.com/how-to-get-hired-or-the-silly-but-adorable-...
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by sgrove 15y ago
Yup, that's it! Thank you. I love being able to tap into collective memory :) It strikes me as true though, step by step we're moving functionality to the browser. In some ways it feels great, but in others it's terrifying - the thought of
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by sgrove 15y ago
There's actually a really interesting article/email I read a long time ago saying that emacs main competitor was the browser, and that it was likely to be overtaken by it unless emacs reacted in some way. I can't find the article with a cur
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by sgrove 15y ago
I believe we have similar issues here, e.g. with the National Weather Service being accused of the same thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service#Contro... Personally speaking, it seems horrifically absurd that we're p
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Super Water-Repellent Nanotech Coating(core77.com)
4 points by sgrove 15y ago|0 comments
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by sgrove 15y ago
I was thinking they were using Leftronic for their dashboard, but looks like they say it's Geckoboard. Interesting how there's a convergence around how dashboards look - I imagine it's like michaelbuckbee said, that Panic's design is a huge
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by sgrove 15y ago
I thought the content of you comment was interesting (and sounds like interviewing with you might be pretty cool), but the tone was really harsh and unlikely to spark any interesting conversation. Something like this might have worked a bit
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by sgrove 15y ago
This looks awesome for someone like me - balancing cooking, healthy food, regular meals, and running a startup time is a major PITA. Food is regularly a burden rather than a joy. Having a homecooked meal from someone nearby? Sounds totally
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by sgrove 15y ago
I was aghast when I read that the Square COO didn't see much value in NFC ( http://gigaom.com/2011/09/26/square-mobilize-2011/ ). After spending a lot of time in Seoul where it's possible to pay for a ton of stuff via T-money card (a clippe

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