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grease

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About grease

http://girishredekar.com (hey[at]girishredekar[dot]com) Previously: coFounder https://recruiterbox.com Current: coFounder https://www.sprinto.com

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    Comment #17744131

    tldr: In the 1950's, doughnut shops were some of the first food businesses commonly open late at night. They became hot spots for police working the night shift since it gave them …

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    Comment #17724106

    Fair point, thanks. Changed the title to be more accurate.

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    Comment #17724036

    Rich made some interesting points on developing libraries in such a manner that it doesn't introduce breaking changes (for the calling code). Does anyone here agree (or have counte…

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    Comment #16900841

    All your points (1 through 4) matched with what was looking for. I chose Clojure. It's Lispy, focuses on immutable data (but not necessarily pure functions), has a version (cljs) t…

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    Comment #12370962

    Yes, and here's why. A team's picture gets better when it sees collective participation from a large number of people in the team. Which is why I feel this will beat company LI/FB …

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    Comment #12358901

    Got it. Agreed.

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    Comment #12357256

    Good point. In (email) targeted recruiting, the recipient will check the company out first. Isn't it worthwhile to build what they would like to see?

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    Comment #12351221

    IMO Glassdoor reviews suffer from extremity bias. For some reason, most reviews there either sound artificial or angry. More importantly, glassdoor gathers "what people think of a …

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    Ask HN: Should I build a tool that helps founders showcase their team?

    No matter how we hire, candidates today research the company before talking/applying. What they find is not too helpful. Many startups have good-looking careers pages, but they don…

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    Comment #5570034

    Yep, starters on me. Or recruiterbox, to be more precise :) Look forward.

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    Comment #5563732

    If you guys are ok, I don't mind sponsoring pizza for the meet. Let me know.

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    Comment #5563714

    I'll try to make it

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    Comment #4217967

    @Jonovono How do you ensure that your search is constrained over music videos only?

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    Comment #4132265

    Does the Mandrill inbound email system parse out quoted text?

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    Comment #4084912

    I am curious to know if more companies have seen success with "the Sunday test" type of hiring philosophy that Greg talks about

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    Comment #3994679

    Linkedin public profile URLs are notoriously clumsy to remember and share. I am curious how many people signed up for this.

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    Comment #3629567

    I think the OP's argument is that a lot of reactive feature-building (irrespective of how they are organized) is a bad idea - especially in the early stages of a product.

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    Comment #2618787

    1) Its hard to say anything conclusively from a conversion perspective yet. 2) A lot of visitors go to the tour before signing up. That is also where they spend most time. 3) Not r…

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    Comment #2618779

    The current payment system is in transition - we want to eventually move to the recurring payment model like you mentioned. The reason it stands today is that things like managing …

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    Comment #2617453

    Hi. I'm one of the creators of Recruiterbox, and pleasantly surprised to see that someone has posted about us us here. Will try my best to answer any questions/comments

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    Comment #2617440

    Its a good thought, but right now, we're more focused on helping companies just organize their existing way of hiring (and not change their ways themselves)

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    Comment #2617409

    We're working on a live demo.