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Ask HN: Are you using a skills matrix in your organization?
1 points by kostarelo 6y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How to Measure a Teams' Performance?
2 points by kostarelo 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Favourite process/ceremony for staying connected with co-workers?
2 points by kostarelo 6y ago|0 comments
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by kostarelo 6y ago
Discrimination would be to treat those employees in a worse manner that others. Paying them the above the local rate salary is not treating them "worse". Not providing them with equal opportunities to grow on the company, that wou
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by kostarelo 6y ago
If you can afford to pay above the rate for those, then go for it. If not, I don't see a reason why worrying about them. That's like saying a company that primarily works on a smaller countrys' market, thus their revenue is m
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by kostarelo 6y ago
Not really an answer but I'm curious to see why you think those incidents should have affected the stock price of FB? I mean I wouldn't expect the average long-term investor to be bothered by something like that.
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I haven't made my mind on this yet tbh. I tend to not agree with the argument that workers are bringing the same value to the company no matter their location. What about doctors that live outside major cities. Should they be compensat
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by kostarelo 6y ago
Also, Node.js is doing just fine without a full-fledged framework like RoR or Django. In my current environment (~100 engineers, cross-functional teams, many Node.js services per pod), we have a few recommendations for libraries (Koa, knex,
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I would also like to hear more about this decision. Could probably be a financial decision?
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Hapi.js project is reaching its conclusion(twitter.com)
73 points by kostarelo 6y ago|27 comments
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I really like it, it's much more cleaner and despite all the comments in here, I find it to be a very smooth transition. I wondered around for a few minutes and pretty much mapped the whole changes. I really don't get what's
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I was on a presentation where their CEO presented the service and said Giannis Antentokoumpo is a gig worker and now with the the COVID-19 they won't be able to get paid like the rest of us. I didn't know if I should scream at hi
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by kostarelo 6y ago
For those that are wondering about HEY and if it will change the world: I myself have been using GTD for Gmail as written in this brilliant guide[1]. Basically, I've split my inbox into three inboxes with a Gmail native plugin: Needs a
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by kostarelo 6y ago
Made Taskeera[1], a service for registering, observing, and monitoring all of your background jobs. Still working on some details and I will open-source a prototype soon with full details on how to self-host it your self. Let me know if you
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by kostarelo 6y ago
In this order: - Reach out to your contact list, any relevant person that might know someone - Reach out to UI/UX meetups, most of them will allow you to make an announcement or post a message somewhere - Finally, go to some gig-based
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I only see code about Post and Users. Where's the actual login/register logic? Also, how's the JWT token is being transferred to the main app? More information on that would be great I think to include in your README.
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Show HN: Taskeera, Bring visibility of your background tasks(taskeera.com)
1 points by kostarelo 6y ago|0 comments
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by kostarelo 6y ago
oh yes of course my point wasn't that you could target companies with totally different requirements just because you think you can bring value. But it's exactly what you said: because the market is so competitive you are far like
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by kostarelo 6y ago
> On the other hand, as far as I see, I am supposed to know many of them. Why do you think of that? were you hired as the person that knows all of them? Remember that as software engineers, our job is to solve problems. It doesn't m
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by kostarelo 6y ago
How will it cope when content starts to grow? It will require a massive single request to fetch the content and then JS will have to build the interface. Like other commented, better split pages and prefer pre-rendering. Documentation is so
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by kostarelo 6y ago
Well, first I always answer with the truth. Whatever that is. And your answer (which seems like the truth for you) is totally acceptable. By answering with the truth, you ensure that both you and the recruiter (or maybe an executive of a ca
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I read a lot of comments say standups are for developers to discuss, for developers to raise blockers, etc. In my experience, standups are not only for developers. In my current environment, there is always the product manager of the team w
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I've been contributing to https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/ lately. It's an amazing distraction-free hand-drawn like sketching app. Online with secure end-to-end encrypted collaboration mode. Che
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by kostarelo 6y ago
> I can, for example, guarantee that this blog is faster than any Gatsby blog (and much love to the Gatsby team) because there is nothing that a React static site can do that will make it faster than a non-React static site. Gatsby produ
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by kostarelo 6y ago
I was never able to commit to Pomodoro mainly because those 5 minutes are not a lot to commit to anything. For small breaks, I will just get up, do some stretching, have a snack (usually an apple with peanut butter or another fruit, maybe s
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by kostarelo 6y ago
For me personally, I can't say that much has changed in terms of my free time. I still go out for running like I used to do (London), still working 8 hours a day, meetups that I used to attend we do now on Zoom and I even hangout with
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by kostarelo 7y ago
Correction: Snowden did indeed met with journalists when he was in Hong Kong and first disclosed the story.
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by kostarelo 7y ago
> The police could quickly see who has been close to a murder victim: simply report the victims phone as being ‘infected’. > A company could install Bluetooth beacons equipped with this software at locations of interest (e.g. shopping
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Ask HN: How do you monitor your background jobs?
1 points by kostarelo 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you avoid micromanaging?
7 points by kostarelo 7y ago|3 comments

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