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At TestDome, we make it easy for companies to screen job applicants with work-sample tests. We are fully remote with a small and dedicated team based around the world. Some of our customers include eBay, PayPal, and Turkish Airlines.
We are hiring an experienced frontend developer with some full stack experience. You will help transition our web app to modern best-practices. Salary up to $60k/year. To apply, take a screening test built with our software. It takes about an hour.
So instead of sending an application the candidate would have to sit down and do a stressful exam, likely to be rejected by a fully automated system?
It's not just a whiteboard challenge after resume and interview were highly promising, with the chance for the interviewer to ask an interesting question relevant to the candidate's supposed strength, but the condition to even apply?
Amazing video, but even more fascinating is how it evolved with the help of a computer program.
"Fifteen hundred legs with rods of random length were generated in the computer. It then assessed which of these approached the ideal walking curve. Out of the 1500, the computer selected the best 100. These were awarded the privilege of reproduction. Their rods were copied and combined into 1500 new legs. These 1500 new legs exhibited similarities with their parent legs and once again were assessed on their resemblance to the ideal curve. This process went through many generations during which the computer was on for weeks, months even, day and night. It finally resulted in eleven numbers denoting the ideal lengths of the required rods. The ultimate outcome of all this was the leg of Animaris Currens Vulgaris" - http://www.strandbeest.com/beests_leg.php
The technique is called stop frame animation and inherently has a bit of camera/object jitter. Apple could have eliminated this but it is more authentic to keep the retro-styling and hand made vibe together with the theme of the creativity. For a great stop frame animation example check out Gondry's music video for the white stripes made with legohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH71AAxXmM
Middleman has a little known WYSIWYG blog editor extension that focuses on easy content creation and editing. It is a paid extension but it does address the points raised in the article http://middleman-blog-editor.awardwinningfjords.com
When someone sends me an e-mail, I want to read the message they've sent. I don't want their idiotic decision to render it in unreadable tiny blue lettering to factor in to this. I don't need a half-megabyte PNG showing me what their corporate logo looks like.
I don't want my mail client to have to rat me out to the sender when I open the message, just because their template depends on loading images from the web (apparently some mail clients now do this again by default? Madness!).
I don't want to parse the sender's message through a complex (and historically fragile) HTML parser just to give them the opportunity to make the message more difficult to read.
E-mail is about communicating a textual idea - the text is what matters. Let me decide how I want to render that so I can best digest it.
We (Sendicate) agree with your points. We have templates that automatically resize images, use readable fonts and colors, emphasize text and readability on mobile (even with multiple columns and dynamic layouts). We also automatically create a plain-text version without re-writing links for tracking. We have learnt from the mistakes of others and tried to solve the problems you describe. Email can be horrible, but it doesn't have to be.
The good news is that you can decide how to view your emails. For Apple Mail try running "defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool true"
Good on you for making an effort and thanks for the tip about Apple Mail. If only this was more widely known and/or available on iOS.
A viable text/plain part is extremely important - it means my MUA (http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ is fantastic, btw) doesn't have to try and mangle down HTML in to something readable.
I would suggest just turning off the HTML part though, it's superfluous once you have a working text/plain 8^)
This is fantastic!
I simply created 3 graphs based on email client data featuring a dendogram, circular dendogram, and circular packing. It charts the relationship of OS, device type, email client type, and client name. http://minus.com/m5VsIg2QvP2R3
At TestDome, we make it easy for companies to screen job applicants with work-sample tests. We are fully remote with a small and dedicated team based around the world. Some of our customers include eBay, PayPal, and Turkish Airlines.
We are hiring an experienced frontend developer with some full stack experience. You will help transition our web app to modern best-practices. Salary up to $60k/year. To apply, take a screening test built with our software. It takes about an hour.
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