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Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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so, let me translate that: I've realized that password security is important, but instead of using any of the myriad password management tools out there I've decided to stop signing up for new things on the web. Please compensate for my lack of action. Also, i realize you have this easy Facebook signup thing, but Facebook is notoriously bad about privacy and apps frequently do things I don't want them to. As I've sho…

wow, that's a pretty shitty attitude you've got there. You don't need to be sarcastic and condescending to disagree with me. the point that I was trying to make which you seem to have completely misunderstood is that it doesn't seems necessary to create an account to use this application; I sign up for new things all the time but I don't think it's necessary for me in this case and feels like a barrier to entry. The…

Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the late reply, HN thought I was replying too fast so it stopped me.. ;)

For the matching part you are absolutely right, it's not necessary to create an account for that. However, our overall goal is to connect talented people with matching companies and people with similar career paths. It's much easier to take advantage of this networking effect with active accounts. Maybe we can manage to let you create your profile at a later point of the path, I'll bring this to discussion tomorrow!

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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I'd be interested if this site showed me how to get to a dream job. I'm by no means ready for my dream job, and I'm taking what I think are the correct steps to get to that dream job, but I'm not sure...

The basic idea behind MercuryPuzzle is to evaluate your personality and talents and provide you suggestions of matching companies and people with similar career paths. You can think of it as some kind of career "browser". "if person X is now in position Y, which steps and skill did help to get there?"

Re: Our 1-year project: MercuryPuzzle. What do you think?

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It does work (also text on the front page when choosing field of interest). I had no idea I was not on english, and I hadn't chosen Dutch - I'm not in Netherlands. I can not reset my answer though. If I choose "Back to start" followed by "Back to frontpage" and start over, I'm at step 3/7 again. Not sure if it's related, but I see the (otherwise great) introduction/tour every time I restart. Also, I can start matchin…

Only way I can reset it seems to be to delete all cookies. Liking the questions, short and to the point. Great design and feel :)

Thank you very much! We'll look into that!
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