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by yeldarb 8y ago
Of course. But will they say “$xx billion iPhone revenue, $y billion iPad revenue, $z billion Mac revenue” or “$(xx+y+z) products revenue” next quarter?
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by yeldarb 8y ago
What's up with them no longer reporting units going forward? Did anyone catch on the call whether they will still report revenue and ASP by product? If so, can't we get units by taking revenue/ASP? If not... holy cow, they ju
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by yeldarb 8y ago
The chart doesn't include today's drop yet: https://i.imgur.com/b3EzMfX.png
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by yeldarb 8y ago
Sure, but the GP’s hypothesis was that “the best way to make the road super safe [is to] replace the airbags by a long pointy metal spike that goes next to the driver throat.” That doesn’t follow.
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by yeldarb 8y ago
If that were true we should see an increase in fatalities per mile driven as safety features increase. We haven’t[1]. They have actually plummeted as cars have gotten safer. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportat
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by yeldarb 8y ago
They seemed to just not be able to grasp the asynchronous nature. Mostly confusion between calling a function and passing the result as a parameter and passing a reference to that function. But also struggling with the recursive nature of c
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by yeldarb 8y ago
We gave the non-technical interviews first because we wanted to prioritize the people who wanted _this_ job over the ones who seemed to be applying for _every_ job. If we're going to spend a ton of time onboarding and training someone
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by yeldarb 8y ago
We need people who can do both of those things. Unfortunately there's not much Node-expertise around here so we didn't really come across any back-end Node people. I figure I can teach someone the Node-specific stuff if they have
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by yeldarb 8y ago
This is good feedback, thank you.
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by yeldarb 8y ago
I'm not a recruiter. I'm a startup founder. And I'm working on hiring people I'm going to work with every day. As much as I'd like to hire every person interested in coding, unfortunately that would be detrimental t
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by yeldarb 8y ago
Sorry, I should have explained. I didn't give them a list of tasks at the start; the format was more conversational and I verbally walked them through the list. The reason I did it that way was to give several easy "warm up"
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by yeldarb 8y ago
Sorry, I shouldn't have made it sound like "do it or fail" -- I was limited to 2000 characters here so couldn't do much more explanation in the post itself. Discussing how to approach the more difficult questions was a b
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by yeldarb 8y ago
What worries me is that I had done a bit of that previously in the first interview. Some of the people who seemed perfectly able to talk about things in theory wouldn't have passed FizzBuzz. For this position we need people who can act
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by yeldarb 8y ago
Sorry, I probably wasn't as clear on the format as I should have been. I didn't present them all 11 tasks up front, I walked them through them 1 by 1 verbally. The questions flow pretty naturally from one to the next since it&#x27
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by yeldarb 8y ago
Agree, the post-hire costs seem easier to quantify. One of the things I struggle with is what you mentioned above -- what's the opportunity cost of losing people who have a higher ceiling / learning velocity but less immediately a
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by yeldarb 8y ago
We ordered our steps in the funnel that way because we wanted to prioritize people who wanted to work for _us_ (as opposed to getting any job or just the top paying job) and who had good communication skills and seemed like they would mak
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by yeldarb 8y ago
Reasoning behind the questions: 1-7 - basic HTML/CSS/JS proficiency (and ability to effectively Google for help if they didn't know about CSS' nth-child or whatnot) 8 - get them familiar with the jQuery animate function
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Ask HN: Are my technical interview questions too hard?
21 points by yeldarb 8y ago|53 comments
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by yeldarb 8y ago
It's just login that's not working it seems. I keep getting automated push notifications from our bots (but I still can't connect to the app myself). We use it for things like relaying user-flagged messages to our support tea
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by yeldarb 8y ago
Google's SVP of Ads & Commerce is on the board of IAB. https://www.iab.com/our-story/#board-of-directors
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by yeldarb 8y ago
I’m not familiar with this one but have been thinking about it for a few minutes and think I have an answer (granted I think it will depend on language and OS whether it would work) The gist of it is: walk the list and after each step, mult
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by yeldarb 9y ago
As of ~4 years ago when graph api 2.0 was released that’s not true. The /friends endpoint only returns friends of the user who have also already installed your application.
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by yeldarb 9y ago
That’s a ridiculous statement. I still run several games on Facebook platform. It’s much easier to acquire and retain users than on mobile and it’s much more profitable because there seems to be a higher propensity for users to pay.
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by yeldarb 9y ago
As of 4 years ago every app needs to be whitelisted by Facebook for every permission they want to request: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/review/w...
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by yeldarb 9y ago
I wrote a script to split up the people I follow into lists according to a few different categories (based on keywords in their names/handles/bios sprinkled with a touch of manual massaging). It really helps to sort through the no
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by yeldarb 9y ago
Yeah very true. One of the things they did was make us explicitly state in our privacy policy how (and what for) we used data from the TrueDepth APIs. So I guess at least someone would have legal recourse against us in that case.
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by yeldarb 9y ago
Yeah, they are pretty thoroughly vetting any app that uses the TrueDepth APIs. Even had to go as far as talking with them on the phone a couple times to reassure them we weren't using "face data" in any nefarious ways. (We&#x
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by yeldarb 9y ago
Yes, we released Nose Zone: https://nose.zone You’ll probably see more coming soon. Ours was in review by Apple for over a month.
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by yeldarb 9y ago
They will be to start. But think about how big the first briefcase cell phones were. They’ll shrink over time.
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by yeldarb 9y ago
No, you have this precisely backwards. The cash increases its PE. The easiest way to illustrate this is to imagine they had 1 trillion in cash instead of 280 billion. Their market cap would go up 720B meaning their PE would increase. Conver

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