mds101

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by mds101 5y ago
> 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 exam so I only need to interview the 4 who can do it? Wh
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by mds101 5y ago
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 articles.
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by mds101 5y ago
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 specific requirements (ex visa sponsorship or remote). R
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by mds101 5y ago
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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by mds101 5y ago
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 and set it with an expire time in redis. If you did consider R
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by mds101 5y ago
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, whereas cutting off Whatsapp would mean a daily inconvenien
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by mds101 6y ago
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 getting the short end of the stick. The mandis were
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by mds101 6y ago
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 have a giant misinformation network, which has recruited ever
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Ask HN: Quick refresher course on DS and Algorithms for an Interview
1 points by mds101 6y ago|0 comments
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by mds101 8y ago
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 a positive or a negative?
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by mds101 8y ago
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?
13 points by mds101 8y ago|15 comments
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by mds101 8y ago
> 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 that would make it 'a mess'.
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by mds101 8y ago
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 within half an hour from their wake up time, the mone
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by mds101 12y ago
This appears to be a bug in your browser extension. All list pages show proper TLDs for me.
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by mds101 13y ago
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-retina devices and data-2x property for retina devices
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by mds101 13y ago
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 is done in the article, for performance r
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by mds101 14y ago
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 in the event of us going out of business, we will provide an
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by mds101 14y ago
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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by mds101 14y ago
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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by mds101 14y ago
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 explain the features on their landing page, then to guide user
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by mds101 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We will be looking into optimizing the tour design in the next few days.
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How we increased our conversion rate by 11% in 10 minutes(easyproducttours.com)
22 points by mds101 14y ago|15 comments
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by mds101 14y ago
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 blue colour is applied. If you are not using bootstrap, or i
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by mds101 14y ago
Thanks for your comments. 1. Yes, we are planning on writing a few blogs emphasising the need for product tours, which we will be including in our 'cold call' sales emails to newly launched apps. 2. Branding: we chose 'Easy Product Tours' f
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by mds101 14y ago
1. What if your user switches between computers? Cookies are no longer available, and they will be shown the tour again. 2. The difference is there would be a separation of concerns. The tour functionality should not be part of your app. It
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by mds101 14y ago
Differences as such are: 1. User-tracking: we track which users have seen which tours and this data is persisted at our backend. So people are mot repeatedly shown the same tours and distracted from using your app. 2. Apart from including t
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Show HN: Easy interactive product tours with Bootstrap theme support(easyproducttours.com)
16 points by mds101 14y ago|8 comments
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by mds101 14y ago
An interview with the designer is available at https://vimeo.com/album/2067663/video/48937359
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by mds101 14y ago
1. I haven't given it much thought, but MVP should be a barebones forum much without any communities, user pages, private messaging etc. basically an MVP would look like the Ask HN page. 2. The average customer would be the same as that for

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