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by gfarah 3y ago
One thing I feel is missing from the article is how brutal the conditions (for the kids and the rescue team) must have been. Extreme heat and humidity are no joke.
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by gfarah 3y ago
Talking about scams in job proposals. Lately I've been getting a lot of recruiters contacting me with sweet fake jobs opportunities, only to really try and sell me their recruitment services.
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by gfarah 3y ago
Good set of things to secure after making sure access of people leaving the company is properly removed and everyone is trained in phishing attacks.
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by gfarah 4y ago
Been living in Medellín for 3 years now. If you don't go out of your way looking for drugs/sex, you'll be fine. Most people getting in some form of trouble go above and beyond looking for both.
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by gfarah 4y ago
Here in Latin America, the hiring of local developers by companies in the United States has decreased. Since July of last year, it has been much easier to hire and retain local talent.
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by gfarah 4y ago
As other have mentioned depending on what is being deployed. Lambda/Cloud Functions code: testing 1m-5m, deployment <3m. We use NX for our monorepo so we usually only deploy a fraction of all of our serverless code. Containers: test
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by gfarah 4y ago
Our team choose flutter 3 years ago, we currently serve 2 million users. I attribute a big part of our success to Flutter and the flexibility it gave us as a growing startup.
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by gfarah 4y ago
It seems this applies to other countries as well. E.g Colombia is expected to increase it's GDP this year between 8.1% and 8.3%[1] [1] https://www.oecd.org/economy/colombia-economic-snapshot/
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by gfarah 4y ago
Around 15% of my apartment building here in Medellín, Colombia are retirees that moved from the US. Cost of living being 1/5 of of the US I would be doing the same.
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by gfarah 4y ago
Two ideas for you to consider: 1. If you can, get a dog, it will force you to socialize, plus they will keep you company when it's just the two of you. 2. If you can, do one year remote in a traditionally friendly society. E.g I have
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by gfarah 4y ago
I second this. I use rappi about 1-2 a day. They attracted a bunch of users using their delivery platform and now they have expanded into dug delivery, car insurance, plane tickets and a bunch more. They are currently trying to break into f
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by gfarah 4y ago
We have been using RDS -> DMS -> Kinesis -> BigQuery for 3 years now. Very little maintenance and has worked without issues. I doubt this service will be cost competitive over a setup like ours. Perhaps between Cloud SQL -> BigQ
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by gfarah 4y ago
Companies (even small startups) working in regulated spaces can benefit from using the public cloud for the compliance aspect. More than once I've had a regulator ask me for X or Y security certifications, very easy to point to the lis
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by gfarah 4y ago
My experience is aligned with this. I would add fast growing teams as well. It is difficult to grow 10->150 in a year without some form of methodology in place.
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by gfarah 4y ago
I think it would be better to spend it on broad social programs. Around 90% of Colombians have some form of Amerindian ancestry. Less than 5% are fully Amerindians.
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by gfarah 4y ago
Medellín is also a short 15 minutes drive from a much colder weather going up into the mountains (Alto de las Palmas, Llanogrande, etc)
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by gfarah 4y ago
Colombia is just beautiful. Hopefully with the recent marketing push, more investment into sustainable tourism can be developed in the country
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by gfarah 5y ago
Our experience has been similarly good. 750k monthly active users between iOS (29%), Android (60%) and web (11%). Supporting low spec Android devices has proven to be a much nicer experience for us using flutter.
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by gfarah 5y ago
My team's anecdotal experience: In February of last year we moved from RN to Flutter. We are super happy with the switch. Our app in Flutter is used by around 1.3M users in 3 different countries. Our Flutter app is more stable (less cr
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Ask HN: As a startup, should you open source your internal tools?
5 points by gfarah 6y ago|4 comments
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by gfarah 6y ago
Anecdotally, we currently have one mobile app (500k-ish users) and one web app (2500-ish users) both in Flutter. Even though there is still a lot that needs to improve in Flutter web, our frontend team promised the web app in 3 months and e
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by gfarah 8y ago
My thoughts exactly. Or at the very least, help fundraising with current and former university students. I am sure a lot of them would have had contributed.
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by gfarah 8y ago
One group of people desperately in need is Venezuelans. You could circumvent the government restrictions and install a form of Exchange in neighboring towns of Colombia e.g Cúcuta. This would be more helpful than cash because 1. They can’t
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by gfarah 8y ago
It has increased in some unfortunately (Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador) it has however decreased in others. Colombia, a country you name in your example has had a 92% decline in crime since the year 2000[1]. [1] https://en.wikipe
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by gfarah 8y ago
In our case we approached construction companies. After a lot of one on one talks, we convince a couple with upcoming projects to sell the new houses they were planning on building with our devices pre-installed and use that fact as a selli
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by gfarah 8y ago
Fair point. As other comment pointed out, it would be interesting to see if there is data around this.
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by gfarah 8y ago
It was a consumer hardware device, not a safety critical device or related to health. Totally understandable in those cases.
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by gfarah 8y ago
On my first startup right after university, we were doing an IoT device (hardware + software), our MVP was good enough to make a couple of sales amounting to 550 consumers. At that point the board decided the best way to grow was to bring i
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by gfarah 8y ago
I’ve been working remotely for almost 5 years. One thing I would recommend remote teams is visiting teammates cities (if possible and if traveling is your thing). Is a nice way to see the world and for team bonding at the same time.
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by gfarah 8y ago
Congratulations to Rappi, it’s crazy dificult to raise money in Latin America. I’ve seen so many good teams/products/services fade away due to inability to raise capital.

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