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alcaide-mor | 5 months ago | on: React vs. Backbone in 2025

Seems like your example isn't equivalent to op's because using multiple frameworks increases complexity while picking a different car to drive to local store doesn't.

alcaide-mor | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

The placeholder on the cover letter text input says: "Seriously, just write a couple of sentences about why you love us and you'll be doing better than 90% of applications."

This sounds really, really bad to me.

alcaide-mor | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How to answer questions like "why do you want to work at your company?"

I think you're overextending his reply. He gave interesting insights on how he answers this question and that's all. Lots of companies I'm looking at are asking such questions even for very basic roles. I can't believe they are all filled with extremely talented people who are that many orders of magnitude above everyone else, and who could be working anywhere else they wanted and chose that job from all others because they are so interested specifically in that company/product/domain/role; and, because of that, they gave brilliant answers to the "why do you want to work here?" question when they applied. If I'm wrong, please give me examples of those brilliant answers. I'm honestly curious about what kind of data that input produces to people at the other side of the table.

alcaide-mor | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

If you have over $200M annual revenue, I can't see how you couldn't afford to build this thing in-house, but then I don't really know what kind of product we're talking about since it's so stealthy.

When it comes to actual suggestions, from a developer's point of view I'd say the following:

1. Migrate slowly. Don't try to build an entire replacement for what you already have at one go. Tackle the low hanging fruits first. Plan the big replacement after the small replacements are already up and running.

2. You'll need at least one person to be the glue between business and tech, and that person must be developer-first, not business-first.

3. Don't overhire. You probably don't need a big team. I'm sure you'd be able to begin with no more than two or three developers.

4. Attracting talent should be easy since the job market has been terrible for developers. You can see job postings with thousands of applications.

5. Hire remote whenever possible. This will increase the talent pool enormously.

6. Always consider the possibility of SAASing whatever you'll build.

Good luck.

alcaide-mor | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

Can someone explain why would a company ask for this:

- Please list all current and past job titles that are relevant to this position.

and

- Please list all current and past companies that you've worked for that are relevant to this position.

Specially if you're already uploading your resume? Should I include the names of all the companies I've worked for, again?

alcaide-mor | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

At the Careers page it says "Remote - Americas" and then in the actual position's page it says "For this position, we're looking for someone in North America." So it's North America, not Americas.

alcaide-mor | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

I'd like to point an inconsistency: here, the job title is "Product Engineers"; the HTML title of the referred page mentions "Software Engineering Roles"; and in the page itself it's actually written "Software Developers".

alcaide-mor | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)

I love the job description, but won't apply because the instructions on how to apply are too weird: "Attach these as two separate PDF documents with the filenames: '<your name> CV.pdf' and '<your name> Cover Letter.pdf'". Why? Do you want to automatically parse the applications and need structured data? Then why not developing a form with actual inputs? That's akin to asking the applicants to send their data in JSON format in the emails' body.

alcaide-mor | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to Focus Again?

That's what happened to me. I had a few health issues and surgeries, and suddenly some of my life goals weren't possible anymore. My brain knew about it and got demotivated. Never completely recovered. I might try to self brainwash into the "it's still possible" mindset, but my rational layer is stubborn and keeps saying to myself "I have to face the truth", even if the truth means less productivity. :/
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