PedroCandeias

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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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 i
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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
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History Channel team finds space shuttle Challenger artifact(youtube.com)
3 points by PedroCandeias 4y ago|0 comments
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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 b
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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!
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
That makes the spouse financially dependent on the partner for life, which can be a bad situation.
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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 shif
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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.
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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 nee
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by PedroCandeias 4y ago
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.
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by PedroCandeias 5y ago
Is 3 euros such a high price to pay someone to bike over to the restaurant and bring you a still warm meal?
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by PedroCandeias 6y ago
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
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American Airlines Plans Boeing 737 Max Flights from December(simpleflying.com)
1 points by PedroCandeias 6y ago|0 comments
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by PedroCandeias 6y ago
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
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by PedroCandeias 6y ago
TerminusDB is a new project being implemented in Prolog: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb-server
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by PedroCandeias 7y ago
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 i
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Job Hunting in Times of Pandemic(medium.com)
2 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|0 comments
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by PedroCandeias 7y ago
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: ht
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by PedroCandeias 7y ago
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 to
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What Is “Customer Success” Anyway?(medium.com)
1 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|0 comments
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Startup Growth: Why Early Employees Leave(medium.com)
2 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|0 comments
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Changing Career Paths in Tech(medium.com)
2 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|0 comments
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by PedroCandeias 7y ago
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 i
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Tips for New Managers(medium.com)
2 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|1 comments
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Upwards Career Advancement – From Programmer to Head of Engineering(medium.com)
1 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|0 comments
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by PedroCandeias 7y ago
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 t
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Who, What, Why? Starting Off on the Right Foot(medium.com)
1 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|1 comments
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Programmers, Business and Digital Transformation(medium.com)
1 points by PedroCandeias 7y ago|0 comments
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by PedroCandeias 7y ago
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&

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