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Reading, comprehending, and filling out an application should be the first way to cull people.
Reading, comprehending, and filling out an application should be the first way to cull people.
We do treat it that way. But today I came across an otherwise promising application that didn't have any email addresses in it. I had to call them on the phone and leave a message telling them to add their email addresses. Obviously this does not scale.
Is the application via online form? Would it be scalable to verify addition of email address on submit?
I don't know if this was my client acting up, or perhaps an unconscious mouse movement, but I've been trying to update the application for a while now. For some reason the update button isn't working (is the server hosed? Is the internet cafe that I'm at breaking?) but when I checked the two fields you mentioned, all but one of the names were eliminated from each (and the intersection was zero). (Edit: I was using co…
I've noticed that when I was editing the application and left the window open for a long period of time (maybe 30 minutes - 2 hours) I would find that clicking 'Update' would return an error. I'm not sure if Refreshing my page helped, but when I clicked the back button my application would be saved. I only remember it from the trauma of the prospect of losing my data. I thought it was a time-out issue. This happened…
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It's the same server (in fact, the same process ) you're submitting this comment to.
FWIW, I got a server timeout earlier today when I took just over 30 minutes to start on my application. It looks like it is easy to lose your cookies just under normal use.
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We do treat it that way. But today I came across an otherwise promising application that didn't have any email addresses in it. I had to call them on the phone and leave a message telling them to add their email addresses. Obviously this does not scale.
"... I came across an otherwise promising application that didn't have any email addresses in it ..." Is the application via online form? Would it be scalable to verify addition of email address on submit?
I don't know if this was my client acting up, or perhaps an unconscious mouse movement, but I've been trying to update the application for a while now. For some reason the update button isn't working (is the server hosed? Is the internet cafe that I'm at breaking?) but when I checked the two fields you mentioned, all but one of the names were eliminated from each (and the intersection was zero). (Edit: I was using co…
I've noticed that when I was editing the application and left the window open for a long period of time (maybe 30 minutes - 2 hours) I would find that clicking 'Update' would return an error. I'm not sure if Refreshing my page helped, but when I clicked the back button my application would be saved. I only remember it from the trauma of the prospect of losing my data. I thought it was a time-out issue. This happened…
Save regularly, then it works out alright.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW, I got a server timeout earlier today when I took just over 30 minutes to start on my application. It looks like it is easy to lose your cookies just under normal use.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66604
I have pressed the submit button!!! Was there supposed to be a confirmation that it was recieved? Just double checking, peace of mind really. Thanks for the motivation and continued inspiration YC.
If so, it could help to have a delete button for people like me that went through the process just to see what type of questions you were asking.
Reading, comprehending, and filling out an application should be the first way to cull people.
We do treat it that way. But today I came across an otherwise promising application that didn't have any email addresses in it. I had to call them on the phone and leave a message telling them to add their email addresses. Obviously this does not scale.
My application had my full contact info on it so I guess it can't be mine.