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mds101

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    Comment #30616262

    > As a Hiring Manager, do I need to spend multiple hours with 20 candidates to get a really valuable insight into who they are really like or should I just screen them with a basic…

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    Comment #30565023

    The problem is some brilliant product manager decided that the reader mode button should not be available on all websites and should only be available on those it seems to be artic…

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    Comment #30023990

    Wow, I'm very surprised at this. SO is where I got my current job from and IMO it's the best place for searching for jobs in software - esp because it was easy to search for specif…

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    Comment #29874991

    From what little I know of NFTs, that piece of paper is most definitely an NFT. Curious as to why you think it's not. Could you explain?

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    Comment #27351920

    It looks very good for something whipped up in an hour. Did you consider using Redis as a data store for this? Seems like it would be quite easy to just generate a UUID as a key an…

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    Comment #27127328

    The problem is Whatsapp has strong network effects unlike Facebook itself. Most people would be able to quit Facebook and it wouldn't make much of a difference to their lives, wher…

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    Comment #25976453

    With good reason. The free market is not effectively regulated against collusion in India. On the 'free' market, the middle men band together, fix prices, and the farmer ends up ge…

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    Comment #25976431

    They stoke communal sentiments, pit Hindus vs Muslims, make it seem like the minorities are out to destroy the Hindus, and a vast majority of the population just laps it up. They h…

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    Ask HN: Quick refresher course on DS and Algorithms for an Interview

    Hi guys, I have an interview scheduled in a week or so. Normally I generally decline interviews if they are the DS and Algorithms type (for a variety of reasons, none of which I wi…

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    Comment #19289182

    Thanks for your advice! I'd also like to know if you would consider a non-conventional resume (like a specialized resume website), rather than a conventional word/pdf document, as …

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    Comment #19288984

    Yes I am currently based in India, and I know visas can be an issue, but I am specifically talking about openings that are advertised as 'Visa Sponsored'.

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    Ask HN: What do you look for in a resume, which gets you to talk to the person?

    Hi HN, This is a question mostly for first level recruiters/HR. I've been job hunting recently, and while my resume (which is currently a list of companies I've worked for, the wor…

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    Comment #19068141

    > forms are a complete mess to work with Could you elaborate on this? I've been creating form heavy react apps for a couple of years now and haven't really come across anything tha…

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    Comment #18845064

    I'd do something like this: have the user load up X dollars upfront. When they set the time they want to wake up, configure it such that if they don't hit a button on your site wit…

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    Comment #8908150

    This appears to be a bug in your browser extension. All list pages show proper TLDs for me.

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    Comment #6516870

    Wouldn't this be resolved by setting a data-1x property (leaving the src/background-image property blank)and then running javascript to substitute the data-1x property for non-reti…

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    Comment #6516694

    If you are going to use this, you should use querySelectorAll('[data-2x]') to select the nodes, rather than getElementsByTagName('*') and then check if each node has a data-2x as i…

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    Comment #5292556

    Hopefully we will not go out of business anytime soon ;) But to answer your question, we host the tours ourselves and provide you with a small script to insert into your page. And …

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    Comment #5292330

    Oops, looks like we messed up and disabled user-tracking for that tour. We'll fix it soon. Sorry about that.

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    Comment #5291982

    Thanks for your feedback. We will be redesigning our landing page in a few days, after we have gathered some more feedback.

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    Comment #5291942

    It is a super specific product. We designed it to be simple and so one thing but to do it extremely well. In our opinion literally every webapp requires a guided tour. If not to ex…

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    Comment #5291912

    Thanks for the feedback. We will be looking into optimizing the tour design in the next few days.

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    Comment #5275479

    Actually, the tour tooltips take on the styles from whatever bootstrap theme that you are using on the site. Since we are using the cosmo theme, all the corners are sharp, and the …