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by durga 10y ago
Google is simply bored while making so much money so comfortably, with an absolutely dominant market position in search. So every few months they need to do these copycat things simply to entertain themselves ;-).
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by durga 10y ago
this is amazing. thanks for sharing... His talk on user testing at Stanford is also amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAws7eXItMk
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by durga 10y ago
Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman is amazing.
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by durga 10y ago
I tried to read this book but never quite understood it. What's it really about?
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by durga 10y ago
If you aren't being merely rhetorical just google for Facebook quarterly earnings
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by durga 10y ago
Just like how google's predecessors were not keen on search relevance so that users didn't find what they were searching for quickly - leading to them spending more time on the website and increasing ad revenue. We know where that
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Strategies for managing stress in a startup(smallbusiness.yahoo.com)
2 points by durga 11y ago|0 comments
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by durga 11y ago
Pretty standard in my opinion. Depending on your negotiability, you're going to get diluted 10-40% in every round. Do that a few times, and you can see where one ends up :)
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by durga 11y ago
Amazing, practical advice. Segmenting users into happy and unhappy and then using that to ask for reviews is a really smart idea..
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by durga 11y ago
We have been using Amplitude at 12 Labs (getapplause.com) after having tried several analytics platforms, and it's an amazing platform. Large free tier, really intuitive interface, and the tracking is really accurate (we did rigorous t
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by durga 12y ago
Yelp is an example of a system where it'd have been easy to be cynical about their system scaling up. It's nowhere near being a perfect system, but I use it frequently and I'm able to repeatedly find great restaurants there.
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by durga 12y ago
Having worked in enterprise companies, I'd conjecture that enterprise sales guys are not using AL much yet. Just a matter of time though..
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by durga 12y ago
Congratulations. Can you share some insights into what works well for attractive engineers, esp on AL?
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by durga 12y ago
It's somewhat hard to argue with a generalization like this. It's like saying: you give loans to 100 people meeting some very specific criteria, and the return rate is great. When you scale it to a million, the return rate isn&#x2
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by durga 12y ago
Yes, some of that company information is written with investors in mind, but AL allows you to share that with job candidates. Since that doesn't really contain super-sentitive info, it's almost a no-brainer to share with candidate
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by durga 12y ago
That's a really bad hiring strategy. What the company doesn't realize is that they are still paying 80%. If the company flipped their position and added an extra 10% to the 100%, it's conceivable that the motivation could act
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by durga 12y ago
Just curious: what are some historical examples similar to this?
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by durga 12y ago
Fixed now.
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by durga 12y ago
Maybe the salaries are actually that high. It's really difficult to hire engineers in the valley. And there are tons and tons of funded startups looking for them. Unless you're a startup with celebrity status, you might just have
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by durga 12y ago
You could say that about discussion forums too. But reddit and HN would disagree. Quality has to be managed and maintained. It's plausible to me that by designing the right mechanisms you could scale AL and maintain quality.
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by durga 12y ago
If you are saying that density of jobs posted varies by region I totally agree - that sounds reasonable. I don't want to defend other companies postings but that's a somewhat weak generalization to make, esp for Silicon Valley.
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by durga 12y ago
Yeah. Case by case.
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by durga 12y ago
I'll aks them for you :)
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by durga 12y ago
Fixed.
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by durga 12y ago
We tested on chrome. That's a lesson.
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by durga 12y ago
Very much so. Getting so many high quality applications in such a short time is not disruptive to the recruiting industry. Then what is? If you're familiar with how recruiters work or the general quality and response on job boards, it&
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by durga 12y ago
Congrats
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by durga 12y ago
AL doesn't really have any control on that. But they could suggest best practices. One reason we got so many applicants is maybe because our compensation feels fair.
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by durga 12y ago
Didn't realize that. What machine are you reading it on? Looked ok on my Mac.
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by durga 12y ago
You're right. It's very useful for hiring. But that's not really well known.

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