PedroCandeias

I have a huge need to relate, which manifests in constantly interrupting to tell personal anecdotes. It hurt my personal and professional relationships. On the professional level, that was masked by being otherwise competent so I was well into my 30s before I made any changes. On the personal level, it also took me until late 30s to find a partner who called me out on it.

Being able to sit quietly and let the other person speak hugely improved my ability to interject in ways that are relevant and actually increase engagement during conversation. That led to better relationships at home and at work, which led to a better marriage and more influence at work.

I found "Nonviolent Communication" to be a good starter book.

I understand you're saying that Mercedes are bought to signal status, but this post portrays women in a passive, dependent, role which is unfortunate and harmful to the diversity of a community which is already mostly men.

It would be fine to just say "Mercedes is the car you buy to signal you're a person of means".

SEEKING WORK | Germany / Europe / East Coast | Remote

Are you building up a tech department? Shipping early product while figuring out the org? Maybe hiring your first tech leaders? I've done that a few times at places that became unicorns.

I have just enough free time to help one early startup through that rough stage. Check out my experience below and feel free to get in touch on twitter @pedrotypes:

- I helped grow HelloFresh's tech department from 10 to 100+ people. - Established Contentful's global Solutions Architect function. - Took a small Lengoo.com from 8 to over 20 engineers. - Currently director of engineering at Getir.

Website: https://pedrogilcarvalho.com

I've definitely seen and experienced this. Yes I changed jobs three times in the last 7 years but my compensation went up 3x too. It might have done had I stayed in the first job, it might have not. I would certainly have missed out on all the experiences and adventures of the other jobs. Things do stagnate when startups mature.

Now I'm a director of engineering at a massive (not faang) tech company and it feels like a longer tenure would be better - it takes time to sink in, develop connections and get high impact things done at this level. But I'm not sure I would have gotten here without all the variety of experiences that I gained in the last few +-2 year stints.

This drives really nicely. Reminds me of some good driving games from the 90s when a keyboard was enough. It's so well done, thanks for sharing!

That makes the spouse financially dependent on the partner for life, which can be a bad situation.

Parent is calling it out, not doing it themselves. The topic itself is deeply rooted in sexism. These kinds of transgressions against women often get drowned in debates about technicalities, which end up dominating the conversation and shifting attention away from the real problem - in this case bodily autonomy.

So I for one actually applaud parent for calling it out.

Spreadsheets work great because it's trivial to change the data structure, and because I can email/share them to the CFO. If I was to adopt a tool, it would have to at least export to spreadsheet.

I know what you mean. It's a thin line to walk. Sometimes you really have to keep them for business reasons. But I found that sometimes the shock of losing the skills and/or knowledge of that one key person is just what's needed for the rest of the team to pick them up.

I'm personally happy to stay inside Apple's ecosystem, but believe that everyone should have the option to choose. This looks like good news, a step in the direction of being more in control of the devices we buy.

Is 3 euros such a high price to pay someone to bike over to the restaurant and bring you a still warm meal?

No, just 5. You get the results a few hours after each test. I flew in on a Sunday, went into quarantine, got my landing test results same day, did my second test Friday morning (took 2min to enter, get tested and come back out) and got my negative results via app at lunch time, at which point I was done with quarantine.

Do they mean the ad targeting that shows me ads to help build a religious building (I'm an atheist) in NYC (I live in Europe)? That ad targeting is going to work less well? How?

In all seriousness, good. Facebook is creepy enough as it is, and this kind of protest is disingenious at best.

TerminusDB is a new project being implemented in Prolog: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb-server

That's very true. I'm also a software professional looking for work, and so far my network has been a good source of promising leads.

On the cash front, in addition to the importance of having reserves, I'd suggest that the importance of having multiple revenue streams has never been clearer.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, to Nova Scotia Canada or Reykjavik Iceland (We've family there)

Technologies: go, php, JS, vuejs, react, all kinds of dbs, Contentful, AWS, anything API-based.

Résumé: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tt9r51l2yujxi1f/pedro%20carvalho%2...

Email: pgscandeias@gmail.com

I'm a grizzled web/backend developer with experience as manager and architect. I picked the wrong time to quit and go travel. While looking for my next full time position, I'm also available for contract work to contribute, architect or manage in software delivery projects.

I'm seeing some negative comments that focus on the article specifics. So I thought I'd say well done Patrick for reaching your goal using creativity and the right kind of persistence. Thank you for showing the actual steps you took and sharing your thought process.

I've been in software almost 20 years and due to some incredibly poor timing am in need of finding my own door of opportunity, so I found your post inspirational. Thank you.

Hey HN, OP here. As a programmer, getting promoted to people manager taught me how poorly prepared I was. I think being a good individual contributor is not enough preparation for management roles, so I wrote a cheat sheet with the 7 most important things I wish I knew back then. Hope it's useful for someone!

OP here. I wrote a bit about why I begin my engagements with software teams by asking "Who is involved?", "What is the desired outcome?" and "Why are we doing it?". They're such basic questions, and when teams answer them quickly, it's a great start. But when they don't, it's very useful to pinpoint what's missing and then work from there.

Well, some years ago I helped a friend move from a place in central Amsterdam to Berlin. It would have been really expensive to hire a moving company, compared to renting a van and a car.

In Berlin, where I live (in the center in fact), we're big on reusing and recycling. I don't own a car, but quite often I need to transport bulky second hand items from wherever I bought them, or bulky trash to the recycling center. So I drive one from a car-sharing app.

I've also needed to take someone to a hospital, and it was just quicker to grab a car2go than waiting for an ambulance.

My point is, there are many use cases where the ability to drive or call a taxi is better than the existing alternatives. I agree that cities everywhere need far fewer cars in them, and I think Berlin with its focus on biking and public transportation but availability or car-sharing vehicles for on-demand private driving is heading in the right direction without having to outright ban cars.

Transporting bulky or heavy items can be impractical by bike or public transport, as in when shopping or moving.

People with ilnesses and/or mobility issues also come to mind.

Cars' carrying capacity and weatherproofing are useful. As long as the number is limited and their usage is shared (taxis, carsharing), their existence can be a net positive in my opinion.

Hey, thanks! Yeah, that’s correct. I’m using auth0, so it’s trivial to add more authentication methods too. Is there a specific one you’d need?

Thanks for checking it out and sorry about that bug! Do you mind shooting me a quick email at pedro@quickintro.app so I can troubleshoot it with you?

As a solution architect visiting clients in Europe and North America, I struggled to capture names and roles of people in meetings and workshops. That led to lots of awkwardness and missed opportunities.

All meeting management apps I found assume participants always get calendar invites, which I found to just not be the case.

So I wrote a small web app that uses qr codes to allow participants in meetings and workshops to introduce themselves, using their phones, on the spot and in a way that persists: https://quickintro.app

I thought I’d be laughed out of the room first time I asked a room full of people to “check in” by scanning a qr code and filling out a form, but no. It worked. So now I’m releasing it for others who might need it.

I did, and use it in the company slack, email, salesforce, etc.

Like it or not, others respond to our image. Using a professional photo is a great way to influence that response.

That's actually a great suggestion and I'm ashamed to admit it never occurred to me. I'll definitely share it internally. Thanks!

I'm helping hire developers here at HelloFresh and I thought of this a lot.

A surprising amount of people don't maintain a very impressive public profile (me included, tbh). These people need the opportunity to showcase their skills and the only way to do so is by spending some time coding a nice solution.

We try to minimize the candidate's overhead by providing general guidance in the challenges we issue (like "please demonstrate the SOLID principles").

Then we do a code review on the solution, in which we also spend some time. We point out issues, suggest possible improvements and give props on stuff we consider well done. At the end, if the candidate doesn't progress they at least learned something useful. We hope that this way our recruitment process might always be worth the time.

Same here. It's very annoying.

I do.

Alone, I get distracted easily. Around people, I'm less likely to browse away from work because I don't want to be seen as a slacker.

At home or the office, I get no sense of urgency. At a coffee shop, there's all sorts of time limits: from the draining battery to the feeling that after a few hours my welcome will be overstayed. So stuff needs to get done... rapidly.

When I'm near familiar people, my mind focuses a lot on their voices. When around strangers, it doesn't care; their voices and other sounds blur together into background noise.

I guess you could say that working from coffee shops is one way I "hack" myself into being productive. So I'm not surprised to see others enjoy working there too. But probably not for the exact same reasons. People's motives and preferences vary greatly.

"How many users to do you have today?" is not meaningless. Each user is a person, give or take a few bots, sharing their way of life and witnessing others'. Without editorialization or censorship.

The product may or may not be around in 10 years, but I bet someone somewhere is learning about what it's like on the opposite side of whatever ideological divide by watching instagram pictures. The consequences of that will last way beyond Instagram the product. There's meaning there that goes beyond advertisement dollars.