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This is how this thing works:
1. Install the chrome extension on Chrome 2. Invite people on your time (only work emails are accepted) 3. Set up timezones and write goals/announcement
Those who will install the chrome extenion, will see what you write every time they open a new tab.
The traditional technical interview process is designed to ferret out a candidate's weaknesses whereas the process should be designed to find a candidate's strengths.
No one can possibly master all of the arcana of today's technology landscape, let alone bring that mastery to bear on a problem under pressure and with no tools other than a whiteboard.
Under those circumstances, everyone can make anyone look like an idiot.
We made Type12 to let companies go beyond riddles and brain-teasers when testing candidates but actually putting them in their day-to-day scenarios. How? No better way than simulating their production environment and pair program with them on real-world problems.
While the ability to solve a coding puzzles tells you almost nothing about the skills the candidate has to solve day-to-day challenges, real scenarios and assignments let you simulate your day-1 work experience and are - indeed - good predictors.
In a bit more technical details, for each interview, Type12 creates a new (docker instance under hood) sandbox fully configured with languages (Python, JS, Ruby, Java, Scala, etc) frameworks (Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, Node, Spring, etc), databases (MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) and other technologies (Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, etc) of your choice.
Thoughts?
Quite timely VS Code released this week: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.v...
Great company, great founders, great product.
[0] How to Win Friends and Influence People
[1] How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
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[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_...
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769016.How_to_Talk_So_Ki...
I've reworked my website/blog (vuejs) completely using a similar minimalistic approach.
Unbiased opinion, but this is a problem I really care and I'm trying to solve with https://type12.com
This might be even true.
Well done.
I found this paper after a brief reflection on twitter [0] about how we as humans tend so massively to undervalue the power of imagination in favor of pure inductive/deductive logic.
[0] https://twitter.com/leonardofed/status/1018515656067645441
I've been doing this on a Note file on my iPhone. While watching movies, I took down notes about sentences, words or even expressions I didn't really fully understand (even though not grokking those didn't really compromise my understanding of the plot).
This is absolutely valuable. Well done.
We've experienced many issues on HN about content that was hosted on Free.
EDIT: as expected, website's is down.
> let is the new var. Constants work just like let, but can’t be reassigned. See: Let and const
I say it once, I say it one thousand times: "Let is not the new Var".
They certainly have some similar behaviors but surely they do communicate very different things to a developer who is reading the code.
let: "you shouldn't/can't edit outside this block scope"
var: "feel free to change me whenever you want inside this scope (whether it's global or function)
JS stuff aside, this is actually very helpful.
Every book I read had a folder containing two files: [0] Ideas [1] Learnings.
In `ideas` I wrote the core fundamental ideas upon which the book is structured. Ideas included either author's ideas and others' ideas that he or she might have referenced (directly or indirectly) in the book.
In `learnings` I collected my own learnings.
Ideas are descriptions. Learnings are prescriptions.
I decided to progressively go over the repository, unfold most of the books in it and make it accessible to the public.
While going through this process will help me re-discovering those ideas through a pair of new lens, I thought that others might genuinely enjoy those learnings.
I've framed this project into a bi-weekly newsletter called: Behind The Obvious [0] (about page [1])
The line between how punctuation has evolved (Classic Latin didn't use any punctuation) until modern days and, programming languages syntaxes is indeed very subtle.
I just wrote a thing about it here. [0]
[0] https://twitter.com/leonardofed/status/1018097202017730560
Unusual. The first time, I - happily - see someone on HN mentioning Joseph Campbell and this book.
As a following up lecture, I'd recommend: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242530.The_Hero_s_Journe...
- Dostoevsky
- Bulgakov
- Sorokin
- Tolstoy
- Chekhov
Some examples:
- Send specific emails when certain products events are performed
- Send a Slack alert to your #customer-success team when there is a new churn-risk customer (low product usage)
- Send a Slack message to your #sales team when there's a new demo request event
Here's a public example (no need to signup) https://app.plainflow.com/workflows/recipe-slack-notificatio...
Some examples:
- Send onboarding emails when you have new signups
- Send a Slack alert to your #customer-success team when there is a new churn-risk customer
- Send a Slack message to your #sales team when there's a new demo request event
Here's interactive workflow example (no need for signup) https://www.plainflow.com/recipe/slack-notification-for-chur...
Thoughts?
Yes and no. What would make you think that memorizing openings is so addictive? Unless you're playing chess for a living, master 2 or 3 openings (queen or kings side) is more than enough and usually so much more effective than knowing superficially a wide range of openings.
Not that true also that defined openings will put the game in a more tactical rather than strategic position. It depends on the opening, and mostly the strategic vs. tactical approach depends on the middle game and on the type of players. Look at Casablanca (strongly strategic) and Tal/Morphy (strongly tactical).
While most people concentrate on memorizing as much as openings the possibly can, I do recommend to learn more end-game variants. Even average chess players (Class C, B, A) don't usually have a good understanding of end-games and that's what makes the different between a good players and a very good player (ie. IM).
This kinda of `anti-active` pattern where you only take the output (no need to read the news online), could also be applied to SaaS products.
You don't need to use the product, you just take the tech output that matters to your business.
Recently wrote a thing on the topic: The Next Generation of SaaS Won’t Optimize for User Engagement
While reading these comments, it popped up in my mind.
[0] https://www.plainflow.com/blog/next-generation-saas-user-eng...
Curiously a few people companies to use this product to supply the missing IF-THEN branches in Zapier (triggering them via Webhooks)
> Does this go in the Intercom direction?
No.
In my previous company, we were heavy users of Zapier. Literally, the easiest way to automate most SaaS companies' internal business processes.
It worked so great for us that we thought to automate some flows also for our customers (onboarding, retentions).
Ie.
- Send a Slack message when a user is stuck with your product and send him some helpful emails
- When there's new `signup fail` event, send a Slack alert to your Customer Success team AND to my engineering team.
- Send a Slack alert and an email signed by your Product Manager when a longtime paying customer reply to your NPS survey with less than 6
Zapier deals well with internal data but not so well with customer data (ie. events or interactions performed by the end customers).
So, I've created a product that does just that. A few public interactive examples here (no need to signup to play with it)
- https://app.plainflow.com/workflows/recipe-send-tailored-onb...
- https://app.plainflow.com/workflows/recipe-slack-notificatio...
Curious to hear your thoughts.