andrea_sdl (u/andrea_sdl)

andrea_sdl commented on Private keys used to sign EU Digital Covid Certificate might have been leaked nitter.net/reversebrain/s... · Posted by u/qsort

Hokusai · 4 years ago

Certificates in Sweden are valid for 3 months. So, if it's the same for Italy then it's not good but not catastrophic either.

andrea_sdl · 4 years ago

(Italian here) AFAIK Italy implemented the logic to be valid for 9 months, which wasn't ideal and it shows its limit in situations like this since we don't have a short expiry date.

Dunno if in the end they also put in place some kind of blacklisting for leaked certificates

andrea_sdl commented on Burning out and quitting mayakaczorowski.com/blogs... · Posted by u/czottmann

andrea_sdl · 4 years ago

One of the most difficult thing about burnout is that it can be quite different for each person in the way it is expressed and it's hard to discern.

I was (and probably am to some extent) burnt out. The hardest thing was caused by the fact that I asked for help. Help to reduce my workload, help to have some kind of support, whatever.

What happened is that many if not all the people I knew always reacted with "Yeah, you'll be fine".

And this is because of two major things 1. I always solve problems. People expect me to do the same so when I ask for help, they don't consider this a threat. 2. People don't want to face pain: I was the only one in a team noticing that one of our teammates was on the edge of burnout. We don't want to face the pain because it's hard, because we don't know how to fix pain easily and sometimes we also can't fix pain.

In the end I decided to do something like Maya. Tell my story.

I documented myself for the burnout part, asked a friend that's expert on psycology and wrote a piece to help people understand how complex this topic is. (here it is in italian, for those who care: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vogliamo-parlare-di-burnout-o...)

Result? Many people reached out and shared how much critical was this problem. We need to fix it and learn both how to see this in ourselves and in others, and how we can help them (and to me the fist key element is being able to face other people's pain and suffer with no fear)

andrea_sdl commented on 1Password Alternatives taoofmac.com/space/apps/1... · Posted by u/rcarmo

killingtime74 · 4 years ago

Just use bit warden. Open source, self hostable, good clients, supports yubikey

andrea_sdl · 4 years ago

I'm a big fan of bitwarden, it's my first advice to everyone, but to be honest it's nowhere near the refinement of 1Password which I also use)

It often lacks polishing and features, I truly do hope that with the many users migrating they'll put some extra work to make it first class

andrea_sdl commented on Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome zapier.com/blog/actual-im... · Posted by u/gscott

deanCommie · 4 years ago

A lot of the discussion here is treating impostor syndrome and qualifications as binary: You're either qualified or not. And your evaluation of your skills is either above your actual skills or not.

But it's more nuanced than that.

I'm a Principal Engineer at a FAAMNG company. I have impostor syndrome all the time. Why? Because I measure myself against 1) role models that are ahead of me in many ways - I've always done that, and it's how I grow, 2) against those with strengths in areas that I have weaknesses.

I think my impostor syndrome is absolutely fact-based. I am not as good in the technical areas I care about as those I measure myself against.

My fallacy is that there is a billion things that I am good at, but I don't consider them difficult (how could they be, if I am good at them), or I consider them insufficient to a fully rounded engineer, if I don't also have the skills that I know I'm missing (but some of my peers are not).

It doesn't help that I'm the epitome of a 'Generalist' - I'm good at a lot of things, but I don't know if I'm the BEST at anything.

I get lots of positive reinforcement - from my management chain, and from those more junior than me. But it never resonates. I always think "damn, I've actually fooled them all". And then I feel guilty that the management is putting so much trust in me, and that the juniors actually look up to a fraud.

The only feedback that resonates is from my technical peers. Luckily I get this just often enough that I don't fall into a catatonic mess of anxiety. And sometimes I believe it...

andrea_sdl · 4 years ago

I feel the same way and being a 'Generalist' mostly because of my ability to adapt any environment is both amazing and terrible.

The terrible part is mostly because I got too many roles and zero help to grow (I'm often the icebreaker of a tech or role), which lead me to myself doing the actual criticism to ensure I'm doing my best.

On the other hand this kind of continuous self-doubt is stressing, so reading a comment like yours is a relief :)

Thanks for writing it :)

andrea_sdl commented on Ask HN: What system do you use to keep key people updated on a project? · Posted by u/andrea_sdl

croo · 4 years ago

History of these things never mattered where I work, phone/mail/chat message seemed sufficient so far.

andrea_sdl · 4 years ago

I agree, history is not important, but using phone/mail/chat always implies some kind of "requiement of attention" and given the many groups I need to update I wanted to give them more time instead of reducing it.

Right now scheduling calls diminishes time on the people you involve, so if it's a simple update why not give them the choice?

It might be a result of our former structure that leads to this issue I am experiencing (or it might be an issue I only have :) )

andrea_sdl commented on Ask HN: How do you generally build a product? · Posted by u/tr1ll10nb1ll

andrea_sdl · 5 years ago

Ok, so, as both a developer and owner of a company that built a physical product (in the Cosmetic field, so no tech stack :D ) I'd say that, at least for me it all starts with scratching my own itch.

Create it for you, solve your problems, chances are you are among a group of people that share the same issues and the work will be "where do this people group together?"

Creating a company in a cosmetic field was challenging, but I do believe it's something feasable for everyone as long as you accept the fact that you must delegate part of the work.

I still think that this might be true for the dev field, so yeah, as many other pointed out: Build a decent MVP that solve a problem, share it with the people who care.

Obviously, for me, turning into a product means "making some money", otherwise you're simply testing. So, the process to get from "I have an idea" to "I have a product" might vary a lot.

I started saying "Scratch your own itch" because if you are not solving something you care about and you are infatuated by an idea, doing the market research, finding what the ideal customer really wants is hard. Instead, if you are the first customer of your product and use it daily it's much easier to find pitfalls, problems, defects and so on.

From there, a good advice I always found is trying to sell it to the circle of people you know even before selling online. If none of them buy the product (note the word "Buy". don't give it away for free) there's a good chance something is off. Yes, they might not be your target user, but I would bet that you should at least have a friend that shares part of your interests.

As for how to choose ideas: We have limited time, so I invest in the one with the higher probability of success and leave the others in a list. What happens is that, from time to time (rarely but not so much), I'll see someone else came up and made money with a similar idea. I'll bite my finger, smile, and move on :D Afterall what counts is not the idea alone, it's the execution. That will -always- make the difference.

andrea_sdl commented on Ubuntu successfully virtualized on M1 forums.macrumors.com/thre... · Posted by u/hans1729

donor20 · 5 years ago

And 7-9 years is a fantastic support lifetime and yes, I know some folks who still use their 9 year old macbooks such as grandparents etc without major issue.

You have new android phones that ship with software 1.5 years old and NEVER get updated.

andrea_sdl · 5 years ago

I agree but I'll tell you (as an apple fan in the ecosystem) that sometimes this kind of "let's abandon the old things" has some drawbacks. For example, the changes in the https behaviour and support for the websites, made an old mac useless because safari didn't support the new TLS versions and there weren't any decent alternative for an old system like that (we're talking about a 2004 mac if I recall correctly, intel 32bit, so yeah, I know it's old in many ways).

The only solutions was to install linux and it worked.

So, even though I'm fully committed to the ecosystem and I love each and every apple product I still do think that having to trash a machine after 10 years isn't so good considering that those machines are usually still capable to work daily.

andrea_sdl commented on Ask HN: What book, video, paper, or essay do you keep revisiting over and over? · Posted by u/hidden-spyder

andrea_sdl · 5 years ago

Not tech related: The power of vulnerability by Brenè Brown (audiobook/course). Worth every single penny. You can get a glimpse of what's it about on the netflix documentary about her.

andrea_sdl commented on What Working At Stripe Has Been Like kalzumeus.com/2020/10/09/... · Posted by u/yarapavan

ptman · 5 years ago

Adyen is probably cheaper, but maybe not enough to matter: https://www.adyen.com/pricing

andrea_sdl · 5 years ago

Adyen has also high requirements for companies in terms of volumes, so it's an alternative but available only to a subset of companies