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Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by y4mi »

hnriot wrote: post #178
hessenwolf wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got a reply from a financial engineering consultancy HR person on Friday to say that they would not be able to process my application until I had submitted my high school results. From 1997. I have several applications on the go right now, so I do not have time to go historical for them. They miss a candidate.

that's not unreasonable, when applying for job you need to get your stuff together. So many companies have later found out employees claimed degrees they never got. HR protects against that.

only if that was his highest qualification...

this request is very unreasonable if he got another certificate after this.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by flipside »

SnacksOnAPlane wrote: post #179
flipside wrote: post #71

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Team has changed, name has changed, product has changed, vision has been refined. 10/30 marks my 4 year anniversary for coming up with the core ideas behind Tinj. We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information starting with video ratings. More than anything, I've grown enormously as an entrepreneur, as a developer and as a person.

OK, this is me being a jerk, but: You've spent 4 years working on a product that lets you draw a line on a time graph? I mean, I see that it's synced to a video, and that's a small bit of interesting functionality, but...this is not a product. This is a feature of a product, maybe. It's a less-useful imitation of those "+/-" knobs that you see the results of during political debates on CNN. I'm sorry, I really do lik…

4 years in the company, 10 months on this product.

It absolutely looks like a "bad idea", but all its deficiencies can be compensated and its strengths are unmatched.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by flipside »

SnacksOnAPlane wrote: post #177
flipside wrote: post #136

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I know, right? One of these days I'll figure out the right way to explain things in writing...

Why is the product called "curve" in the demo video but "curv" on the site?

A misguided attempt at rebranding... Probably gonna change it again eventually.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by flipside »

ttty wrote: post #142
flipside wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Team has changed, name has changed, product has changed, vision has been refined. 10/30 marks my 4 year anniversary for coming up with the core ideas behind Tinj. We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information starting with video ratings. More than anything, I've grown enormously as an entrepreneur, as a developer and as a person.

video, like movies or what? youtubes?

We'll start with YouTube but the original application was TV.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by flipside »

stevephillips wrote: post #146
flipside wrote: post #14

7th rejection, doesn't even phase me anymore. :P For those with less experience, the disappointment will pass. Take a day if you need to reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it and how you could do it better. Rejection is fuel for the fire, use it to burn brighter going forward. Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that.

You should blog about what you learnt at each iteration

I absolutely should, but I haven't figured out a system for blogging that doesn't take too much time.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by shaftoe »

hnriot wrote: post #178
hessenwolf wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got a reply from a financial engineering consultancy HR person on Friday to say that they would not be able to process my application until I had submitted my high school results. From 1997. I have several applications on the go right now, so I do not have time to go historical for them. They miss a candidate.

that's not unreasonable, when applying for job you need to get your stuff together. So many companies have later found out employees claimed degrees they never got. HR protects against that.

A high school diploma? Your high school grades? Who cares?

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by aliakhtar »

flipside wrote: post #182
SnacksOnAPlane wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, this is me being a jerk, but: You've spent 4 years working on a product that lets you draw a line on a time graph? I mean, I see that it's synced to a video, and that's a small bit of interesting functionality, but...this is not a product. This is a feature of a product, maybe. It's a less-useful imitation of those "+/-" knobs that you see the results of during political debates on CNN. I'm sorry, I really do lik…

4 years in the company, 10 months on this product. It absolutely looks like a "bad idea", but all its deficiencies can be compensated and its strengths are unmatched.

sorry to tell you this, but he's right, i wouldn't ever tug on a line while i'm watching a video. clicking a smiley / angry face, may be.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by bosie »

flipside wrote: post #14

7th rejection, doesn't even phase me anymore. :P For those with less experience, the disappointment will pass. Take a day if you need to reflect on what you're doing, why you're doing it and how you could do it better. Rejection is fuel for the fire, use it to burn brighter going forward. Next time, be so good they can't ignore you, simple as that.

Your website doesn't work on osx with chrome 38.0.2125.104.

clicking on 'contact' scrolls down and when it reaches the bottom it just snaps back to the top.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by wtracy »

hessenwolf wrote: post #159
vacri wrote: post #111

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I once tried to become a paramedic. I was working in a sort-of outpatient clinic at the time, talked a couple of times with an paramedic instructor, along with some regular officers. I never got in - the HR recruiters didn't like me for some reason. This made no sense to the instructor, who thought I was a prime candidate, nor to my medical colleagues, and I also later successfully coached two friends through the pro…

I got a reply from a financial engineering consultancy HR person on Friday to say that they would not be able to process my application until I had submitted my high school results. From 1997. I have several applications on the go right now, so I do not have time to go historical for them. They miss a candidate.

I once quit halfway through an application to some company (a consulting firm? this was years ago) because the web-based form wouldn't let me advance without filling in information about my high school that I no longer have.

I did have all the information about my AA and BS, but apparently that wasn't enough.

Re: We Make Mistakes

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Post by ig1 »

graphene wrote: post #155
vishnupr wrote: post #8

A relevant question I asked PG a year ago: [Do you review rejected YC apps to find startups who then made it big?] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7122774

I can't find a source for LightSail having been rejected from YC, the linked reference is just a crunchbase entry that doesn't mention YC as investors. I'd be super interested to know more about this, since LightSail seems like exactly the type of company (and founder) that YC says it wants to fund: Working in a RFS domain (energy), massive potential upside, and founder with considerable domain expertise.

IIRC it was in 2008 when YC was in a very different position from what it is now.
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