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gmenegattion Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?

Please, does anyone know any open source house plan generator?

Let’s say something that can generate house plans according to some parameters.

gmenegattion Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?

Unfortunately Glassdoor is a place where any random person can comment things, not necessarily real ex-members.

Only a few of the reviews we have at Glassdoor are real, the rest comes from internet haters. Even so, if you look a the numbers, you will see that even people that criticize us, 74% recommend the company to a friend.

It’s obvious that we have challenges, as any company, but apparently the benefits are higher than them.

gmenegattion Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?

Yes. This is true. There are some people with strong opinions about what we do, but the interesting part is that none of these people were part of our group before, they just criticize what they think we do, as they cannot criticize what we really do.

Anyway, we respect different opinions, but we are really focused on hearing the opinions of the people we already have inside our group, because they are the ones that truly understand what’s going on.

gmenegattion Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?

Absolutely. I will e-mail you.

gmenegattion Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

Rocket.chat is also a very nice alternative and supports more use cases. We use it internally and also as part of our product.

gmenegattion Challenging projects every programmer should try

IMHO I think databases could be added to the list.

It’s one of the most complex system one can develop and you end up learning about multiple areas, such as OS, compilers, distributed systems, data structures, parallelism etc.

gmenegattion Ask HN: Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?

I would love to meet you. IMHO, your experience is very valuable. gabriel@slicingdice.com

gmenegattion How Postgres is more than a relational database: Extensions

Very interesting.

Anyone knows how Postgres really handles data coming from Foreign data wrappers?

Will Postgres build an index for the columns? Does it leverage the Postgres query planning?

gmenegattion Ask HN: How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup?

IMHO, disregarding compensation, Identify and learn everything possible about who will be your boss/manager/mentor.

This will significantly impact on your ability to succeed and on your happiness.

(Most of) People don’t leave companies, they leave their bosses/managers.

gmenegattion Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes

This is true, not just for technical side, but also on business side.

Google just did it again on the Ads business:

https://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/googles-gdpr-cons...

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Very partial article, condemning a impartial process.