Well of course that is the goal. Without upvotes your product is never seen by your potential users. If you solely rely on luck of people finding you buried in the Newest section than 99% of the time you won't reach the front page. I dare to say very few product ever made it to the top without the support of their initial beta / power users.
Can you elaborate on the word "manipulate"? In my opinion all we did is let our beta users know that we are on PH that day. The whole article is about how PH block products from going infront of new audiences
I normally go with: "If you could do it from scratch how would you implement the infrastructure of X"
X being a currently widely known service (I'm usually going with Spotify). There is no "right answer" to this question but this shows you how the candidate thinks and how well they can protect their opinion if challenged
Nice job!
One suggestion from a person who developed widgets used on lots of sites: You are appending general styles (like styling the a tag, ".container" which is a popular class name) to the containing document's body. This is bad practice, since it will alter all the links on the containing page. Consider using namespaced classes (like .github-widget-link) or build your own iframe and apply the styling there
now the url field on the page is relative. it would be nice to have a callback param where i could execute a function on the result and prefix the url with "http://www.tesco.com"
That is a fair question, and a "what if" type so its hard to answer. if you assume an ideal world with sane CEOs than it shouldn't matter what the investors expect. The startup should burn cash at an optimal rate to achieve the highest profit. Of course don't live in an optimal world...
"...but there are hundreds if not thousands more startups that will make their founders and investors rich."
I think the correct word here would be "richer". For VCs 5x return on an investment while desirable, it's not the ideal outcome.
Consider a VC invests in 100 companies during X years, $1 million each. Ballparking here but 80 of these will be a total failure. 19 of them will make 5x return. That is -$100 million spent and $95 million gained. So if the last one is "only" a 5x return the VC gets their money back (-inflation, time spent, etc). Thats why they are looking mostly for Ubers and AirBnbs imho
Neat, but don't think its exploitable in reality, but neat indeed.
Did a bit of play around with it and it does seem to work on input fields but fortunately not on password type fields (which is logical, considering the browser is not rendering the actual characters for password fields)
Yes, we are doing it via images which are hosted on our server securely encrypted.
We offer 3 different sending modes:
- tracking only -> the email can't be modified after sending but you get a notification when the recipient opens the mail
- attachments only -> you can not modify the emails content but you can modify / remove attachments
- full unsend -> you can modify / remove contents of the emails after its been sent / opened + same for attachments
For years I was only living for work. No girlfriend, no hobbies, virtually no sleep, nothing. Gradually I became burnt out, depressed and pretty fat for that matter. My productivity and the quality of my output declined as well
After a while I realized that this is not sustainable and I have to do something. I started to focus on weight loss since the results are easily measurable and I felt if I succeed that will give me positive encouragement to improve other parts of my life. Started off with simple changes. Started walking home from work (about 6km) instead of taking the bus every day. During my walks I listened to my favorite tracks or just walked in silence and thought about stuff that I wouldn't normally spend time thinking about. The change in my day to day mood was measurable even after the first week.
After a while I started doing yoga at home following YouTube videos and started meditating regularly. Yoga, besides having positive health effects (flexibility, weight loss) teaches you about being aware of your body and it's needs. I noticed that after a couple of weeks I started eating way healthier and drinking way more water (these days I do at least 3 liters / day) and way less alcohol.
In six months I lost over 26 kilos, which is obviously really nice but what is even better that I feel happier in general and more confident in myself. My life is not revolving around my work anymore. This new found self awareness also had positive effect on my professional life. I'm thinking more clearly, my code quality is better and I solve problems faster than ever.
Thanks, its only in beta so its not perfect but getting there
bramgg is right in his comment. we are using images to display the text. when the user edits / "unsends" and email we simply re-render the image.
bramgg is also right about gmail's image caching however we found a way around it
as for the privacy: we will upload our policy soon (it's being reviewed atm). but simply put:
- we do not ever sell your data to 3rd party
- all of the email info are stored heavily encrypted on our servers
- the images are behind a secure proxy
- once you delete an email it completely removed from our servers