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Re:This is not the future on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:48AM (#46290017)
I agree with the core point. I’d add that modern marketing isn’t really aiming for heterogeneity, but for eventually producing behaviorally homogeneous user clusters.Many product and tech choices today are about shaping user behavior so users become more predictable and therefore more monetizable. During this transition phase, the system tolerates (or creates) heterogeneity, but at the cost of complexity, friction, and inefficiency, which are mostly pushed onto users. In that sense, this is less about “the future” and more about engineering markets through data, with trade-offs that are rarely made explicit
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:53AM (#46159601)

  Location:Italy
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Node.js, JS, ReactNative, LLM, Agents, foodTech
  Résumé/CV: Exec MBA + 15+ years building/scaling products;
  Email: [email protected]
  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/angelocapilleri
Strategic Tech Leader with long experience building scalable systems, high-performance product remote teams, and mobile-first platforms. Looking for senior leadership roles (CTO / Head of Engineering) or high-impact technical challenges.
Hey everyone I'm Angelo — I built HN Pulse because I read Hacker News every day and often miss good discussions while I’m coding or in meetings.

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024) on Thursday September 05, 2024 @02:49PM (#41459424)

  Location: Italy
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: ruby, rails, postgis.postgres, redis, node, react, react-native MBA
  Email: capilleri(at)gmail.com
  linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelocapilleri
I have over 15 years of experience in software development, working with various technologies. I hold a degree in Computer Science, and more recently, I completed an MBA. My passion lies in understanding how organizations operate and leveraging software to drive business impact and innovation. With a strong foundation in both technology and business, I aim to bridge the gap between technical teams and business strategy to deliver solutions that create meaningful value.

Feel free to reach out to me via email if you're interested in discussing my profile further

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023) on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:44AM (#36999190)

  Location: Italy
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: ruby, rails, postgis. postgres, javascript, node, react, react-native/redux, MBA
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QnEOjOckbqP_6fOe2uvjpJd1TwwGmvdY/view?usp=drive_link
  Email: capilleri(at)gmail.com
  linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelocapilleri
Currently I'm CTO of a food-tech company in EU and I'm an Executive MBA candidate ( I will achieve it at the end of 2023). I have some commits on the ruby on rails master :)

I'm open to tech and management positions.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023) on Monday February 06, 2023 @12:39PM (#34681006)

  Location: Italy
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: ruby, rails, postgis, javascript, node, react, react-native/redux, MBA
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FClIFRXGexncavt3vMamkzgYobL2Qtjn/view?usp=share_link
  Email: capilleri(at)gmail.com
  linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelocapilleri
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021) on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @03:56PM (#27360388)

  Location: Italy
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: ruby, rails, postgis, javascript, react-native/redux
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7f9MyJIhlWkZkd6UW9ieGppRmc/view?usp=sharing
  Email: capilleri(at)gmail.com
  linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelocapilleri
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021) on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:58PM (#27028430)

  Location: Italy
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: ruby, rails, javascript, react-native/redux
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7f9MyJIhlWkZkd6UW9ieGppRmc/view?usp=sharing
  Email: capilleri(at)gmail.com
  linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelocapilleri
Re:What developers should know about TCP on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:08PM (#23194566)
I loved this area when I was at university. At the end of Computer Networking course I brought a project on based on https://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/

It was really fun expecially because it allows you to understand better all networking layers.

I did some tests about network topology to minimize lost tcp packs as possible, given different network traffics

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020) on Saturday May 02, 2020 @04:29AM (#23050316)
I the last years I've mostly worked in the food delivery area. I built the an entire food delivery platform by rails and turbolinks adapters for mobile I also worked and made research about the application of dispatching algorithm, making one by my own

  Location: Italy
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: Ruby,js, Turbolinks, Turbolinks adapter, react-native, heroku, dispatching agorithms
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16OuwuYYFEeDGPhKF3xosuE8KqG4_ecV6/view?usp=sharing
  Email: capilleri (at) gmail.com
Re:Redis 6.0 GA on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:22AM (#23031840)
Really strange that how back-end developer you never had a use-case for Redis yet.

First you could check at

https://redis.io/topics/data-types-intro

If you look at single data type you can see how redis takes care about complexity(indicating the Big O notation) of each single data structure and operations.

Many devs use it for caching but in my opinion is super nice for evil-write applications.

Re:Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:21AM (#23020306)
I think that microservice approach is good when you can share those services between many applications In most cases microservices can be the new premature optimization because you can start to lose the focus on the product itself and think about the the microservice as a product
Re:Deliveroo users are getting defrauded on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:23AM (#18990047)
I did one order in Milan with deliveroo, from that day I receive kind of emails and phone calls from different call centers.
Re:Travis CI acquired by Idera on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:20AM (#18978839)
Congrats to the founders, that I met during a conference, super developers.

Thanks for the contribute to the open source projects!

I personally loved the first years of fb even if I never been a social network person.

Now I think that company ( in terms of fb product) should focus how to be still facebook of the first years with innovations.

Because right now my traction to use facebook is just read news or to follow some companies that I like.

Re:Using Ruby in 2019 on Thursday January 17, 2019 @12:28PM (#18932638)
I'm 100% agree with the author of this nice post
Re:So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:21PM (#18875707)
When I switched from linux to mac it was just for the hardware, at time I bought a ibook g4 the most beautifull laptop that I have had, the battery in 2006 has a duration around 9 hours of coding. Recently when I think to back to linux the only my worries is the system update and the fact that I cannot test or compile any iOS app.
it looks interesting as concept, but I found it a little bit strange and slow to use. Edit: it was rolled back on my account
Re:Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:21PM (#16016685)
I think that people that read this news are not our potential customer :) Our culture is implicit in our It stack, we started really small and growing around of orders number with no following the current startup culture(that basecamp team doesn't like it ) We started small and stay still small.
Re:Ask HN: Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's? on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:09PM (#16016614)
I like this question. Well I can talk about my company. I'm the CTO of http://prestofood.it a small delivery food company based on Sicily. We started with fews resources and we made around 3.000 orders per month. We started from one city with a small team 2 developers. Here our initial configuration:

* Heroku 7.00 per month

* Rails app

* Android and iOS app developed with Turbolinks plugin.

Now we are in 3 other cities and we made a cms and backoffice to handle the orders workflow and we developed a printer system with raspberry-pi. Currently we are the biggest company of delivery food in the south of Italy. We have no investors

I've built a food delivery platform

Hello,I've built a platform for food delivery for my customer prestofood.it in my origin country(Sicily).Now it is ready and in production but I wanna get other money because my effort was huge compared to the money that I got from this project.But there are a lot of big companies on delivery food so probably to think to sell my platform could be quite ridiculous.What Kind of business model...

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Re:Writing a Service Worker on Sunday July 09, 2017 @04:45PM (#14731580)
Why don't use HTML5 application cache with the manifest? At first look it do the same that you need:

* Cache css, js and images file

* Defined cached entries page ex index.html, show.html etc..

* Fallback Entries

and it is really simple to use. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_...

Re:The Rails Doctrine on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @05:05PM (#10934464)
I like ruby and rails, not just for the framework itself, but for what it was and it is for many developers.

I want to say thanks to DHH for his way to maintain the framework simple, despite to many PRs that try to make rails more complex.

Thanks to this document, I'd like to read also some document about the standard in big rails app.

Re:Life is Short on Sunday January 17, 2016 @04:42AM (#10918959)
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Re:An open letter of gratitude to GitHub on Friday January 15, 2016 @01:53PM (#10911273)
I'm not totally agree with both letters, just for personal reasons, but this is not the point.

Overall GitHub is a cultural place where anyone can improve his personal skills, expecially in computer programming, thanks to the huge code present on it. I have romantic vision of Github. For instance, guys from poor parts of the world can study great code with this site.

Yes it is a company with investors and probably it made some wrong decisions, and if we want we can choose other services, but today sorry for the repetition Github represents an open and huge cultural Hub.

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