Can't focus on your goal? I am building an app to help you focus on the goal
3 by just4sky | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m developing an app to help me focus on my goals. Last year, I read a book called Deep Work and it introduced me the 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX). The key elements of 4DX are a wildly important goal, lead measure, and scoreboard. I practise Pomodoro technique every day. Therefore, I build an MVP that combined the Pomodoro technique and 4DX. Deep Work Hours (https://ift.tt/2C1Vw5P) - A Pomodoro timer app to help you focus on the wildly important goal Features: Pomodoro timer - A timer that starts with 25 minutes focus intervals with 5 or 15 minutes breaks. Goal setting - Add your wildly important goals. Select a goal to focus before starting the timer. Scoreboard - Each focus intervals will be saved and show on the tracker. Really appreciate if you could try it out and give me your feedback.
Ask HN: What happens to datacenter's servers once outdated?
12 by blaze33 | 3 comments on Hacker News. With an evergrowing cloud of datacenters, constantly updated offers with better and cheaper servers, what does actually happen when those servers eventually end up being replaced? Dumped as garbage? Shipped to poor countries? Recycled? Sold? (Like we could buy custom servers like Google or facebook have). Just curious :)
Ask HN: What is your burnout story?
53 by navyad | 12 comments on Hacker News. Have you ever experienced burnout in your career? If yes, two things I would like to know 1) How did you burnout? so that we can look for red flag situations in the workplace. 2) How did you get out of it ? Thanks
Ask HN: Business Is Making $400k / Year– Now I Don't Know What to Do with Myself
18 by throwawaydoe | 18 comments on Hacker News. I know. Nice problem to have, right? But it's still a problem and I'm not really sure where else to talk about this. I only need to spend the first 3 hours of my day working on my business. Then I'm pretty much done for the day. For the last couple years I would spend the rest of my day working on other stuff— making music or new business ideas. I've always had new ideas. Motivation has never been a problem. But recently I've had trouble caring about new ideas. I mean I spend a lot of time thinking about what to do next but things just feel different . There's no spark. I used to have trouble sleeping on Sunday nights because I was excited to work on Monday... That's no longer the case. I work mostly by myself. I've been doing it for 6 years and it hasn't been a problem before but I'm starting to wonder if it's getting to me. I have friends and a lovely wife so I'm not lonely per say, but I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing the camaraderie of working on a team. I don't think I'm depressed. I might just be describing burn out. I just don't know what to do about it. I probably need a sabbatical from work or something but I don't know how to do that. What do people do with themselves during the week when everyone else is working? Pottery classes? Woodworking? Should I go get my masters? Any perspective or feedback would help. I'm 31 years old.
Ask HN: How do you do career planning?
6 by vuxel | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm 24, software engineer at a huge company that has roles for doing everything. They have a culture of holding career conversations, and give their people a shot at identifying and fixing what they want to do. I am due to go through this process soon, and I am really interested in advice on how others have handled their career planning. I personally don't like the idea of breaking my role into the Level I, II, III ladder, and I don't want to bind my professional life to that scale. I feel motivated towards understanding the business side of things, but I lack any background that would help me there. I want to have an educated roadmap (even if I don't follow it to script), and I would really appreciate advice on going about it. Thanks!
Ask HN: How do I auto buy domain names?
51 by thedangler | 29 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I'm wondering how to automatically by domain names. It seems like there are companies that swoop in and buy them faster than the manual process. I can't seem to find a reliable way to buy them automatically. Anyone have more insights on this? Edited - fixed title.
Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly
235 by raboukhalil | 58 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! I've been working on a book about WebAssembly over the last few months, and it's finally available at http://levelupwasm.com ! Why a book on WebAssembly you ask? Well... WebAssembly is awesome (obviously ) but it's certainly not the easiest thing to learn. So I wrote this book as a practical intro to using WebAssembly in your web apps. I would appreciate any feedback!
Launch HN: Searchlight (YC W19) – Hiring based on past performance, not resumes
84 by annawangx | 98 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN community! We’re Anna and Kerry, co-founders of Searchlight ( https://ift.tt/2IWrmHh ). Our software helps candidates be judged by their past performance rather than their resume or where they went to school. We built this product to help job candidates and hiring managers. With platforms like Linkedin and Indeed, hundreds of applicants with indistinguishable resumes apply for the same job with just one click. Kerry and I both have backgrounds in software engineering, and we were frustrated by how time-strapped hiring managers increasingly over-index on the “snob test” (a.k.a. where the candidate went to school) or contrived technical screens [1][2]. We’re also twin sisters who went to the same school and worked at the same companies. We look indistinguishable on paper, so we are especially keen to bring a new product to the hiring space that will allow candidates to express their individuality beyond their resumes. When we looked at the landscape of current hiring tools, we realized that the majority of them are self-promotional (resumes, personal websites, Linkedin, etc) and difficult to substantiate at first glance. This disadvantages people who aren't good at promoting themselves, or don't like to, and these are often the best candidates! We saw that a poorly conducted technical screen can penalize the most talented engineers. Worse yet, we learned that take-home coding challenges are a real pain point for certain demographics, like parents who don't have the time to thoroughly attack a 24 hour coding challenge because they have to take care of their kids. This made us think - why are we ignoring the the perspectives of people who actually know what it's like to work with a candidate? This data is the most indicative of success on the job [3][4], but isn't currently being leveraged until the end of the process, if the employer conducts reference checks. This is why we built Searchlight to better assess candidates early in the hiring process. Currently, we work directly with employers to invite their applicants to the platform. Job seekers can invite as many advocates as they want to speak to their accomplishments and capabilities (some invite as many as 10). The references share feedback like specific examples of how the candidate demonstrated desired competencies and how future managers can set the candidate up for success. Then, we analyze this feedback to assess candidate-position compatibility by matching the requirements of the role to the candidate's strengths. Our recommendations for strong candidates are based on a mix of quantitative factors like average ratings of core competencies, and qualitative factors like work style and environmental fit (which we currently human QA). One of our core beliefs is that every candidate is exceptional in their ideal environment, so all the feedback gathered on Searchlight - regardless of whether the candidate gets an offer - is saved and available for the candidate to use and share. We aim to make the hiring process more fair. We are building trust and legitimacy into our platform by tying each reference to a specific job experience, verifying references through work emails or Linkedin profiles, and keeping the feedback hidden from candidates. While no tool is perfect, we know that the insights surfaced by Searchlight allow for better decision-making than traditional resume scans, with no extra time commitment for employers. We are especially excited to see that Searchlight is already helping diverse applicants get to the on-site interview stage after being initially screened out. We'd love to hear about your experiences in today's hiring process and if Searchlight would be helpful to you! Thanks for reading. [1] https://ift.tt/2yWxb1N [2] https://ift.tt/2NzaGUJ [3] https://ift.tt/2GPcecF... [4] https://ift.tt/2NGgT1n...
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