dennisbalon

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by dennisbalon 6y ago
My dream is to find an no-code instrument for creating and managing of various dashboards. Something really simple and powerul with various messenger and other interface plugins.
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
My list is which may be not quite cheap though: 1. wireless headset: not to big do it does not cover you head while on the video call, but big enough and comfy so you can listen to music and hear some bass. 2. wireless charger for you phone
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
I think there is a lot of legal limitations and rules in different countries. But I am talking just about a team and the wish to part with someone. I am sure there are a looot of top companies that are hard and stricts and fire fast. At the
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Very food comment! When I was saying about immediate firing I never meant you should be an idiot and have no idea why you even hired. You can make fast actions and fire fast only if you know why are you doing that which is a result of why a
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Do you mind if you disagree. I`ll give you an example. We had a team of devs and I guy I know has joined us as a QA team lead. They guy was really cool, very comfy to be around with etc and etc. But problem was that he never really got the
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Fully agree here. Firing is absolutely much more important to the health of the organization than hiring. Firing is cutting on the error opposite to continuing living with it.
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Search my name on LinkedIn and decide for yourself. You dont sound like a person ever hiring or firing in your life to me.
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
THANK YOU for such a great reply with examples. Let me comment each point. But first of all I`d like to say that my secret suace for succesful hires and fires is: instinct + process. 1. Racist guy. Heh. I had experience working with such pe
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Mostly agree here. But dont you remember stories from your life when you met people that telling from all your experience would not improve on performance? Or say you dont have time to teach anyone life or work ethics? Managers are here to
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Can we agree that I as the CEO and owner of the company can fire anyone without explanations but only if I fulfill my obligations of covering the pay 2 weeks upfront etc.? Bottom line can I fire someone simply if I dont like them? Thats a q
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Thanks for your reply. I have a few thing to say. Reading your comment I realized that you are more than I connecting together the decision making part of firing someone and actual action to be made. I was taking about red flags. Like steal
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Disagreeing is cleraly valuable for some but rather hard to accept for “FB commenter” types. Thanks again for your time!
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Ask HN: The last drop and “You`re fired” When?
2 points by dennisbalon 6y ago|19 comments
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
I have been actively hiring for the last 15 years of my life. And running two startups for the last 13 years. I know what motivation is better than many other managers out there. And I am sure many people attend work not only for money. Pro
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Right, this is an actual reason why someone may have friction working with TS and it is better not to choose that developer. But still the question stands. Like imagine we compare web game dev with JS vs C++. Obviosuly you need to plan much
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
I tend not to shoot myself in the foot. But good advice. Thanks.
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Or remove all letters mentioned in the domain of HN from my keyboard.
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Hey! You are right about newbies ignoring what the HN was initially created for. I agree, my bad but to my excuse 3 outher submittions I made were pretty much according to the HN standards I believe. Thanks for such a thought thorugh reply,
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
I dont mean that unicorns are results of perfect coding. But thats an all different topic :)
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Thanks for such a balanced answer. For MVP I believe no-code is perfect if possible.
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Heh... your examples are very extreme... In my last two startups I had people over 40 working those long hours. A lot of contractors I know are lazy young guys that want the buck with minimum fuss. Most contractors are experience ex-startup
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Ask HN: How to stop reading HN when you are already in bed? Jokes not aside
3 points by dennisbalon 6y ago|8 comments
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Thanks for the answer. Now I get a bit better idea when it comes to saving time/resouces. Another thing seems to be clear is that TS devs need to be more skilled. So interchanging them might be of a slight issue. What do you think?
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Is a startup what you truly need? Or want? Or can?(medium.com)
2 points by dennisbalon 6y ago|0 comments
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Thanks for your answer but this is about TS. I am meaning to find what are the benefits for me as a project manager? What consequences positive or negative I might experience?
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TypeScript vs. JavaScript. What would a project manager prefer?
2 points by dennisbalon 6y ago|6 comments
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Bthw, you mention this - "The goal for every outsourcing is to make your product great because only in that case they can upsell you and make more money." And would you please allow me to disagree here. In the esence you are more
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Do you mean that by oursourcing we support 3rd world countries? If so here I absolutely agree but as my personal experience shows finding a good outsourcing partner no matter from what country - is a complicated task. All in all much better
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Right! Exactly! But would you agree that when you are working in an oursourcing company and projects change sometimes a few times per month - you are less motivated to think about being proud compared to just submitting the hours in time?
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by dennisbalon 6y ago
Let me try to clarify myself. I am not saying that by definition a salaried imployee has any benefits compared to a good contractor. People are different and in my own experience I had amazing contractors, like e.g. our current DevOps which

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