ingmarheinrich

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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
That's actually a great move. Ex-devs as Product Managers / Product Owners are the best.
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
As described above, to me it came sort of naturally. But generally, you just have to find your first project :)
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
In my case, most engagements came from head hunters, and only some from my network. Also, I have a somewhat nice looking vita, which helps. Right now, it's mid size businesses with 50-75 FTE product development departments, but when I
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
I don't know, I think I was very lucky. I just went from job to job (I'm 47 btw, and started working in the field ~20 years ago), and it all just came to me. The switch to freelancing also sort of came naturally - a permanent job
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
I used to be a developer, but I never became am excellent one, because I was interested in so many aspects, including (dev)ops, qa, product management, and most importantly the business side of things. At some point someone else (which is a
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
I left my wife and my two kids of 6 and 8, because I couldn't adjust to my role as a father. A few months later I realized this was the biggest mistake of my life, but my wife wouldn't allow me to return - can't blame her. Fo
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
Restricting this to female founders is highly sexist.
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
If you change from being e. g. a developer to being a manager, then this shouldn't be regarded as a promotion. It's a different career path.
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
.. but why?
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by ingmarheinrich 8y ago
I literally thought this was about the Windows emulator.
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Public book experiment(docs.google.com)
1 points by ingmarheinrich 9y ago|0 comments
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Let's write a book(docs.google.com)
2 points by ingmarheinrich 9y ago|0 comments
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by ingmarheinrich 9y ago
In Germany, it's impossible for employers to tell their employees not to talk about their salaries. It collides with §2 of the German constitution.
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by ingmarheinrich 9y ago
First of all, getting people together to talk is not doing nothing. It's getting people together and talk. There are companies/departments where people just don't talk to each other anymore, or not about the right things, bec
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by ingmarheinrich 9y ago
It's a bit similar to what I'm thinking about right now. I started my career close to 20 years ago, coding dynamic web pages (yes, I worked with php3), and unintentionally broadened my skillset into something like a CTO skillset f
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by ingmarheinrich 9y ago
"Devops get stuff to run, Ops keeps stuff running". Following this definition, we'll always need Devops. When using AWS, there's no need for the old school "Ops", however, having SRE is a good thing. AWS + Devo
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by ingmarheinrich 9y ago
Me too beta, pretty please!
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by ingmarheinrich 10y ago
As a side note: I almost never hire mid-level. I hire seniors and high-potential juniors. Many mid-levels are mid-level because they don't have what it takes to become a senior. Those high-potential junior might or might not have it, b
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by ingmarheinrich 10y ago
White King goes to a8, only using white squares and b8. Black has to make the mistake to leave b8 unguarded for one move. Then white pawn to c7. Black King cannot b7 because of the white King on a8. Black bishop has to take the pawn, or paw
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Ask HN: Working as contractor in UAE
3 points by ingmarheinrich 10y ago|1 comments