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Hacker News Directory: Meet people from other companies

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52 pointsjmtame20 comments

I hate to be the grammar police, but a little bit of capitalization goes a long way.

typing in all small letters is a movement though

I think you should allow an option for secondary email address for communication. I don't want to use my corporate or school id for HN-related stuff.

Hah. Something about the proxy server we have at work makes this unnecessary. If HN takes too long to respond, I end up logged in as a HN-reading coworker :)

Maybe there needs to be a "cache-control: no-cache" header, or something.

I recently heard from him. He gets your pages too. But I don't think you're actually logged in as one another, in the sense of being able to do anything (e.g. vote) as one another.

If you know of anything I can change to prevent HN pages being catched by your proxy, please let me know.

Serve pages with the "Cache-Control: private" HTTP header.

Thanks. I just added that header in what I believe are the right cases. Please let me know if you still see the problem, jrockway (allowing time for caches to clear).

Will do. Thanks for taking a look.

Yeah, the votes always seem to happen as me. I don't know what proxy software we use, so I don't know what it's doing wrong.

Vary: Cookie

The same thing happens to me at work. There are a lot of HN readers at my company!

I'd love to sign up, but apparently students and employees of eight companies can register.

Would the creator consider opening this up? Those of us who work for smaller companies and businesses would love to have the opportunity to connect without being on the same level as Googlers.

what's your company's email?

Just wondering, why should the users go through this "annoying" process of getting their company/school added to the directory. This would be more user friendly if it was done automatically as part of the signup process. Signing up for a new service is already annoying enough as it is. Emailing to get "permission" to sign up is a step to far for me to use any service which requires to do so.

any u.s. school is automatically added. as for companies, we wanted to target it at students doing internships at places like google and facebook. there's nothing to stop you from joining with your company, and I would agree that part is annoying. it should speed up over time.

How is this better than a mapping between uid and LinkedIn?

I went to the page hoping to signup, but I fall into 1.5 categories. Sorry for the humour. Anyway, I'm a student from a not-well-known college and I'm a freelancer. How do I signup as a freelancer?

Do you also accept companies from outside US?

What is the motivation behind limited types on schools/companies?

it's only slow starting off, but as we add more companies it will become easier. it seems like the most intuitive way to categorize the directory. enter company email, done. most students will probably intern at a few places (google, facebook, microsoft, etc)

I think it would make plenty of sense to let companies see students, and vice-versa.

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