andrea_sdl

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by andrea_sdl 5y ago
(Italian here) AFAIK Italy implemented the logic to be valid for 9 months, which wasn't ideal and it shows its limit in situations like this since we don't have a short expiry date. Dunno if in the end they also put in place some
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by andrea_sdl 5y ago
One of the most difficult thing about burnout is that it can be quite different for each person in the way it is expressed and it's hard to discern. I was (and probably am to some extent) burnt out. The hardest thing was caused by the
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by andrea_sdl 5y ago
I'm a big fan of bitwarden, it's my first advice to everyone, but to be honest it's nowhere near the refinement of 1Password which I also use) It often lacks polishing and features, I truly do hope that with the many users mi
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by andrea_sdl 5y ago
I feel the same way and being a 'Generalist' mostly because of my ability to adapt any environment is both amazing and terrible. The terrible part is mostly because I got too many roles and zero help to grow (I'm often the ic
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by andrea_sdl 5y ago
I agree, history is not important, but using phone/mail/chat always implies some kind of "requiement of attention" and given the many groups I need to update I wanted to give them more time instead of reducing it. Right
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Ask HN: What system do you use to keep key people updated on a project?
3 points by andrea_sdl 5y ago|2 comments
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by andrea_sdl 5y ago
Ok, so, as both a developer and owner of a company that built a physical product (in the Cosmetic field, so no tech stack :D ) I'd say that, at least for me it all starts with scratching my own itch. Create it for you, solve your probl
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by andrea_sdl 6y ago
I agree but I'll tell you (as an apple fan in the ecosystem) that sometimes this kind of "let's abandon the old things" has some drawbacks. For example, the changes in the https behaviour and support for the websites, m
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by andrea_sdl 6y ago
Not tech related: The power of vulnerability by Brenè Brown (audiobook/course). Worth every single penny. You can get a glimpse of what's it about on the netflix documentary about her.
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by andrea_sdl 6y ago
Adyen has also high requirements for companies in terms of volumes, so it's an alternative but available only to a subset of companies
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by andrea_sdl 6y ago
There are many things that might influence the result and therefore your decision. I once worked for a product in the SaaS business and what helped us is understanding "where are our customers". So, where are _your_ customers? How
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by andrea_sdl 6y ago
We did it many years (11) ago for a B2C Product, around 200K users (free, 5k paid). We both had a common Postgres where we stored generic info and the customer database in Derby (product was in java). At the time we weren't that much e
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by andrea_sdl 7y ago
not OP too but I'd love to add an extra case: I work 3.5 days/week. I asked my boss after 14 years of work there if I could reduce my working time, given the fact that I think family time is more important. It went well and I supp
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
This. I wholeheartedly agree. I dunno if it was you but 4 years ago a similar comment on hacker news made me consider working less. It was the best decision in my entire life. I came to the conclusion that our work will not linger in our me
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
Well, it's quite clear that JS is seeing a transformation at higher speeds, but a the same time I feel like the backend offerinngs are now more diverse and they do, too, evolve. Spring in java is pushing somewhat on functional programm
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
yes, they share many of the topics about vulnerability, but if you didn't listen to the power of vulnerability I strongly advice you to give it a try.
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
I'll be in the minority then, but to me these are my best books. The Power of Vulnerability by Brenè Brown and Quiet by Susan Cain. The first is not a real book since it's audio only, there is no written counterpart but it change
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
Working part time. Inspired by a comment here in HN I decided 3 years ago to take the leap and moving from 5 days/week to 3.5day/week to spend more time with my family. My paycheck is less but I get to enjoy life a lot more and I
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
can confirm, I was referring to an early 2006. Quite an old piece :)
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
Yes. Indeed, and as I wrote I can’t blame their choice
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
My iMac can’t be upgraded to el cap because it’s not 64bit :) if I recall it was snow leopard the os. Maybe I wrote the wrong model date
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by andrea_sdl 8y ago
I've got an old core duo (32 bit) iMac which is still working fine despite the old age (I think it's a late 2009). My small brother use it to navigate the web. The sad thing is that it became useless with OSX. Safari couldn'
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by andrea_sdl 9y ago
Rand has been an inspiration way before the topics of honesty and empathy were trendy. He was the spark that ignited my interest towards getting out of the usual "let's not discuss difficult topics", and as usual his post is
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by andrea_sdl 9y ago
This is the only reason (at least for now) that makes me dig into a library code. And I always got some benefit from it. I think we often treat libraries as voodoo blackboxes, but they're more often thatn not created by normal people w
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by andrea_sdl 9y ago
nice to see yathletics here :) I'm a customer. It's a pain to ship outside US (because of taxes/shipping prices) , but aside from that you make great products. keep going, and it's nice to see some bootstrapped examples
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by andrea_sdl 9y ago
3 years ago I was reading HN, wondering what could be improved in my work. I felt a little bit of burnout but nothing that extreme, yet I wasn't satisfied. I remember that to me the solution was remote work. I dreamed of it and comin
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by andrea_sdl 11y ago
Wow, so many people talking about how DDG is lacking good search results. Here's my personal experience. I've tried using DDG 2 years ago, and it sucked. In my language (italian) results were poor, and also for general searches. 6
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by andrea_sdl 11y ago
I dunno if it is within budget but checkout https://scripted.com/ I remember it was considered one of the highest quality services out there (never used it personally, though).
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by andrea_sdl 11y ago
Personally I always found the OS less polished than OS X, this difference has been reduced by the work done on windows 10. Aside from this thing office has always been the de facto, but it wasn't until office 2007 (ribbons? I don'
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by andrea_sdl 11y ago
While I personally prefer other system to develop personal project (I do that on a mac), at work I use windows 10 and recently I have thought about switch from Evernote to Onenote. I wouldn't have imaging that in the past, mostly becau

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