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labarilemon Ask HN: Why corporate culture never increment your salary?

Some insights by N.N. Taleb here: https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...

labarilemon Ask HN: Why there's no universal way to draw software architecture diagram?

Maybe have a look at the C4 model. You might find it useful.

labarilemon Ask HN: Why do people write comments?

Can't speak for others but I find it nice to exchange thoughts with fellow humans (or AIs) (or dogs).

labarilemon What has kept you going during a personal crisis?

Let me try to sum it up:

- Friends/good-willing people

- Stoicism

labarilemon Ask HN: Why are expert practitioners often so bad at teaching beginners?

I think teaching is a skill by itself. Effective teachers usually grasp the theory behind the learning process, while this is not necessarily true for expert practitioners. There is much more to this: knowing how to communicate effectively, how to keep learners engaged, adapting to your students etc. This means a person can effectively teach the basics without having deep technical expertise, it's simply not the most important skill in teaching beginners imo.

So assuming those are somewhat independent skills, you can find skilled practitioners and skilled teachers but in my experience it's hard to find someone with that skills intersection. I consider this kind of people quite exceptional.

labarilemon Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health

Maybe the AI will also generate personalized content instead of only recommending it?

labarilemon Ask HN: Why Do Tech's Gatekeepers Despise Salespeople?

Cool. Currently co-founder and CTO of a startup in the AR/VR space.

labarilemon Ask HN: Why Do Tech's Gatekeepers Despise Salespeople?

Out of curiosity, what's your specialization?

labarilemon Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

I'm in Italy, based in Bari

labarilemon Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

Very cool idea. I'd love to have that here in southern Italy.

labarilemon Ask HN: Anyone have a software consulting playbook (negotiation to delivery)?

Playbook? Nope but at this point I'm thinking about writing one.

Some useful insights here: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...

labarilemon Ask HN: What is the coding exercise you use to explore a new language?

May sound boring but usually it's a CRUD web API. But it really depends on the language. If the language is not particularly suited for this kind of project, first I find a good use case and then I build a simple version of it.

labarilemon Ask HN: How to you administer your collection of papers/e-books?

Calibre for e-books.

labarilemon Ask HN: How do you discover music?

As answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32840864

Usually it's one of these: - Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlist.

- Spotify's "Enhance Playlist" feature applied to my playlists (including the "Liked Songs" playlist).

- Friends (lots of them love music, some of them are musicians).

- Live DJ Sets on YT.

- Music compilation videos on YT.

- Artists I follow on Instagram. Some make music in niche genres and started their movements, which onboard new interesting artists from time to time. I found several cool emerging artists this way, to answer your question.

labarilemon Ask HN: Free for a month. What to do?

What are your interests?

labarilemon Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

Usually it's one of these:

- Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlist.

- Spotify's "Enhance Playlist" feature applied to my playlists (including the "Liked Songs" playlist).

- Friends (lots of them love music, some of them are musicians).

- Live DJ Sets on YT.

- Music compilation videos on YT.

labarilemon Ask HN: What are your favorite personal websites?

https://www.gwern.net/

labarilemon Ask HN: Anyone based in EU remotely contracting with US clients?

Would agencies help getting started with foreign relationships? I don't really think so, I mean it's their job. But it might be a different way to get contracts.

labarilemon Ask HN: Why is pay so much higher in the US? (or is it?)

Out of curiosity, has anyone managed to get into contracting with US clients while being physically based in EU?

labarilemon Ask HN: Why is pay so much higher in the US? (or is it?)

Are you salaried or contracting? Also, I guess it might not be as easy for people in EU timezones.

labarilemon Ask HN: Any open source stack exchange clone

Which are the features you need the most?

labarilemon Ask HN: Books for Learning Software Architecture

A previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202769

labarilemon Ask HN: I will have a 14-year old shadow me at work – any advice?

What's your day job?

labarilemon Ask HN: What is your reason leaving the previous company?

Starting my own company.

labarilemon Ask HN: If you could only play one game, what would it be?

Age of Empires II. Even though I've not been playing for a long time, I know I could easily get hooked again. Can't praise enough the game.

labarilemon Ask HN: Where do you post your writing?

I host my website on GitHub Pages. It's built with Jekyll so I basically write articles in markdown in my favourite editor (VS Code). At the moment it's going through some UI changes so I'd really appreciate some web design feedback. I started from an existing Jekyll theme, then I customized it from time to time. In case you want to have a look: https://marcolabarile.me

labarilemon Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site

https://marcolabarile.me

Working on some UI improvements these days. After that I'll publish some new articles!

Would love to get some feedback on the current website.

labarilemon Ask HN: Freelancers, what's your hourly rate?

How do you find work?

labarilemon Ask HN: Freelancers, what's your hourly rate?

I don't have the answer but out of curiosity what's your background and experience?

labarilemon Ask HN: How did you learn sales?

Sure, why not! I'll drop you an email, if it's fine for you.