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I shared his post at HN and he landed a job on Zendesk

34 points by armandososa 16y ago

armandososa 16y ago
Just in case somebody doubts the amazing community HN is, I posted Rodrigo's twitter proposal last week and now he has a job at Zendesk.
- sz 16y ago
  Can you add a link to your original posting?
  - rodrigogalindez 16y ago
    This is the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752256 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752256 Oh, and thanks Sosa!
stevederico 16y ago
truly a great story and a great company. Congrats and keep up the blog posts!
tudorizer 16y ago
Congratulations!
rokhayakebe 16y ago
HN, hands down the best community on the web.
bd 16y ago
It's interesting how negative were comments on the original post about the redesign. HN can be very tough crowd to please :)
- rodrigogalindez 16y ago
  I have mixed feelings on this. While I can understand most comments, I must say that it's very, very hard to design blind. By blind, I mean, with no directions, or, in other words, with not objectives directly pointed out by Twitter. I think most of the commenters think that I've made a full, complete, functional redesign of Twitter, while it's not (I focused mainly on typography and white space). There are still a lot of decisions I needed to not think about because I didn't have time, neither it was the purpose of the exercise. Think of my realign as a spruce up. Not final, but eye-opening in a certain way :-) Besides, it's hard to beat a design team that works at Twitter's HQ, that knows what they need as a company, have user data, and can test and iterate almost every day. Oh, and thanks HN for making this possible, BTW. :-)
- mahmud 16y ago
  [this is gonna sound a bit meta and weird, but bear with me] Not everyone gets it. If you have advanced knowledge and expertise in a certain field of study, or even just a knack for it as a layman, you could be speaking Truth about it, your every word advancing the field and breaking new ground, but you will never be heard or understood by the majority. Every field of specialization has this mass of rote practitioners, text-book bureaucrats who perceive it only as it's taught, as it exists, and can not visualize it further than its current state. Let me repeat that again: for every field of art, science, work, study, etc. the great majority of its practitioners can not see the future of their craft, all their mind can conceive is how things are NOW. If they could see past today, they would invent the future. That's why if you're lucky enough to be "peerless"; when you're least understood by everyone (and I don't mean in an emotional "kumbaya" sense, but as in research) when your Idea has no google hits, when you can't find a reference text, a conference, or a consortium addressing your questions .. it's those times when you need to take a deep breath and ask yourself: Am I batshit insane, stupid, or do I have a genuinely novel idea? A good metric is when you have few peers. The more prominent they're, and noted for their smarts, the better. If you find yourself corresponding with the primary sources of a new art, or science, or a new field of mathematics, you know you're breaking new ground. So, just because a bunch of people shoot your idea down doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. It might be that you're talking above the masses, and addressing only a select few specialists, perhaps in a highly adapted "domain-specific language" (the exact terminology might be different, specially if you're a bright layman; but you mourn just the same, your shared agonizing pain, and you're understood, at least for now, by just by a handful few.) [I said this was gonna be meta]
petercooper 16y ago
Very cool story, but how can you hire someone from Argentina so quickly? Does the US have a special visa setup with them or something?
- ichverstehe 16y ago
  "Plus, the dream is completed by being offered to flight to Zendesk headquarters in San Francisco for a couple of days." - sounds to me like he will be working remotely.
  - petercooper 16y ago
    Ahh, for some reason I interpreted that as being for an interview of sorts. It didn't even occur to me that he could be working remotely. I must be more old-school than I imagined ;-)

34 points by armandososa 16y ago

Just in case somebody doubts the amazing community HN is, I posted Rodrigo's twitter proposal last week and now he has a job at Zendesk.

sz 16y ago
Can you add a link to your original posting?
- rodrigogalindez 16y ago
  This is the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752256 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1752256 Oh, and thanks Sosa!

stevederico 16y ago

truly a great story and a great company. Congrats and keep up the blog posts!

tudorizer 16y ago

Congratulations!

rokhayakebe 16y ago

HN, hands down the best community on the web.

bd 16y ago

It's interesting how negative were comments on the original post about the redesign. HN can be very tough crowd to please :)

rodrigogalindez 16y ago
I have mixed feelings on this. While I can understand most comments, I must say that it's very, very hard to design blind. By blind, I mean, with no directions, or, in other words, with not objectives directly pointed out by Twitter. I think most of the commenters think that I've made a full, complete, functional redesign of Twitter, while it's not (I focused mainly on typography and white space). There are still a lot of decisions I needed to not think about because I didn't have time, neither it was the purpose of the exercise. Think of my realign as a spruce up. Not final, but eye-opening in a certain way :-) Besides, it's hard to beat a design team that works at Twitter's HQ, that knows what they need as a company, have user data, and can test and iterate almost every day. Oh, and thanks HN for making this possible, BTW. :-)
mahmud 16y ago
[this is gonna sound a bit meta and weird, but bear with me] Not everyone gets it. If you have advanced knowledge and expertise in a certain field of study, or even just a knack for it as a layman, you could be speaking Truth about it, your every word advancing the field and breaking new ground, but you will never be heard or understood by the majority. Every field of specialization has this mass of rote practitioners, text-book bureaucrats who perceive it only as it's taught, as it exists, and can not visualize it further than its current state. Let me repeat that again: for every field of art, science, work, study, etc. the great majority of its practitioners can not see the future of their craft, all their mind can conceive is how things are NOW. If they could see past today, they would invent the future. That's why if you're lucky enough to be "peerless"; when you're least understood by everyone (and I don't mean in an emotional "kumbaya" sense, but as in research) when your Idea has no google hits, when you can't find a reference text, a conference, or a consortium addressing your questions .. it's those times when you need to take a deep breath and ask yourself: Am I batshit insane, stupid, or do I have a genuinely novel idea? A good metric is when you have few peers. The more prominent they're, and noted for their smarts, the better. If you find yourself corresponding with the primary sources of a new art, or science, or a new field of mathematics, you know you're breaking new ground. So, just because a bunch of people shoot your idea down doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. It might be that you're talking above the masses, and addressing only a select few specialists, perhaps in a highly adapted "domain-specific language" (the exact terminology might be different, specially if you're a bright layman; but you mourn just the same, your shared agonizing pain, and you're understood, at least for now, by just by a handful few.) [I said this was gonna be meta]

petercooper 16y ago

Very cool story, but how can you hire someone from Argentina so quickly? Does the US have a special visa setup with them or something?

ichverstehe 16y ago
"Plus, the dream is completed by being offered to flight to Zendesk headquarters in San Francisco for a couple of days." - sounds to me like he will be working remotely.
- petercooper 16y ago
  Ahh, for some reason I interpreted that as being for an interview of sorts. It didn't even occur to me that he could be working remotely. I must be more old-school than I imagined ;-)