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Damn, that's one bold statement with pretty much no proof that is the case.

Activision / Blizzard obviously realizes that fortnite is doing well, and could ramp up development on some new future competitor, why would fortnite be a reason to cause layoffs? They could react in a slew of ways to combat the issue, layoffs simply put them in a position where they can't attack.

There are layoffs in the game industry because there are always layoffs in the game industry. Ramp up when starting a game, hiring through building it, firing after it's out and stable and at a cadence when you don't need all those silly game makers to just keep the ball rolling.

You're subject to the "same political bullshit" because you choose to be. You don't have to partake in it, but you do. You can choose not to, you can choose to try to bring the company around you to greener pastures - but you don't.

You sound wise and such in general, but perhaps your time would be better spent making a difference in how people believe work should be done at a place that actually allows brewing better practices instead of lauding bad ones.

Did you happen to watch the video? He didn't try very hard to break it. It's not like he put it over his knee using all his strength.

vim is a grammar, a true grammar, once you learn that, it all makes sense.

http://rc3.org/2012/05/12/the-grammar-of-vim/

That isn't the case here, I think you're conflating the two. Building cool / cool stuff doesn't clash with meeting deadlines, knowing how to do both / when / how to compromise is vastly more useful than being either one of those two extremes.

The more people in management that care about building well engineered products and that treat humans like humans and not resources the better off we are as a community.

This guy right here is one of the few comments in this thread that "get it". OP seems genuinely interested in the success of the team, where as who he's talking about, seemingly at least, is interested in his own success - this isn't bad, but it generally goes against the grain of building a team of happy campers.

As @eriktate said, you either make some noise because you care, or you realize that the people above this person don't understand what makes great technical leadership actually great, and you leave.

Google does to some degree, however, from what I know (and Googlers feel free to jump in) it's non trivial to work for the Cloud team in sunnyvale or wherever but actually work from the Pittsburgh office. Because you can't do this sort of thing, the type of work that may be available to you at any given office not around headquarters may be limiting.

I could be wrong on the above, but it's what I've minimally gathered from talking to some friends / recruiters over the years.

Downtown San Jose business / office space is owned by a few agencies who aren't interested in working with the local business to build a better downtown, but instead are interested in kicking them out as much as possible from their leases to renovate and bring in all the other random non-local-built conglomerates into downtown.

I know this as I have a friend who owns a local business in downtown SJ who is being kicked off their lease, as well as every other club, restaurants, and businesses who's buildings were bought last year buy a single agency.

Not everything needs some big company to come in to make everything better, all that actually does is bring in a whole new wave of business to benefit off of what was built by others who were crushed before them.

They don't care, their employees can / will be able to afford the cost of living, and others will flock from the areas around to work low-paying jobs to support them.

I'm leaving the area because I don't want to be forced to work for a FAANG to be able to have what should be middle-class lifestyle abilities without having to worry about how I'd be so much better off just working at one of them. I find it fairly appalling that no BigNameCos are at least trying to work at:

a) remote work being a thing they offer b) expanding on meaningful satellite office space

I don't want to really hear about how Amazon is trying to do this - they are simply exploiting alternate economies for their own gain instead of genuinely deciding to bolster them to give everyone involved an upside.

I don't buy into the belief that this is the only place where people can build good software, that this is the only place to meet people to build great opportunities. The sooner we stop continually buying into this the sooner we can work on a change.

It allows you to define an interface wherein you can then simply generate clients and service libraries from that are typesafe.

We can't have nice things because non-enterprise historically (on the whole) will spend --zero-- dollars for software they use.

Duuuuuude my work macbook freezes at least 3 times a week when connecting up, I thought this was just my issue, I feel like we're part of a brotherhood now.

Reddit and hn are quite different in the sense that HN actively (allegedly) attempts to fight against clickbait / mislabeled titles where resdit (in general) leaves that up to the subreddits to manage which (in general) do nothing.

Being refused a job or two is different than not being able to get no job, like a million times different.

He gets frustrated with people that are supposed to be experts but that don't match up to that in practice (in his eyes at least)

I feel the histeria is around "MS mucks up anything they buy" and not "azure hosted products are doomed to fail"

I love parcel, I seem to personally have constant issues with my typescript react project related to breakpoints just completely not working, or when being triggered, mapping to completely other files.

I imagine it's a sourcemap issue I may post on the tracker, has anyone seen this themselves?

I'll take a company trying to be cognizant of such things, and over adjusting, over not at all.

I think it's great that Circle is trying to do their part in being as inclusive-minded as the can be from the research they've collected.

If at the end of the day that is somewhat misguided, I'm sure they'll readjust, given that they have already proven they will, where many others have either explicitly not cared, or never even thought to.

Well, first I think you missed the point. Second, I think it looks much more pleasurable to read in this format with the columns centered vs being left / right aligned.

Column alignment is pretty subjective (and again, I think the chosen one looks more pleasant than what you're proposing), what the writer was getting at was making sure that the point you'd like to get across is being highlighted in someway, hence the red column amongst the black.

Recuiters will take around this 7% amount, so it doesn't seem absurd through that lens.

Anywhere is the truth, if you really want to actually meet people who share interests then go to those sorts of places (cycling events, rock climbing gym, etc).

Red Rock is a great coffee shop, I'm partial to Dana St, there's the hacker dojo, but for me I enjoy the friends I've found outside of the "forced" situations.

Yea, since you know how to make the perfect products, perhaps you should just take githubs money.

Edit: To clarify, looking back it's simple to just make such assumptions. But many popular sites have existed off of this model which github holds such as facebook, twitter, myspace back in the day IIRC. I'm not saying Github made the perfect decision at the time, but they didn't make a foolish one necesarily given the landscape of how user based sites have existed.

Github is totally within their right to hold this close to their vest for whatever reason, I don't see the big deal with it.

Where does the line get drawn the OP asks? I'm unsure, but I believe in Github to make a smart call there. Not every situation is a slippery slope to facism / dictatorships, and I'm unsure why many things nowadays are described with this sort of notion attached to them.

Definitely feel like I wasted time reading this whole thing, and now wasted time posting, and now I'm sad.

Why hide it? Me signing up gains you nothing, I can just use some throwaway account, or make some RandomDude32@usa.com which you gain zero from. But to the op's point, I'm not going to go through those hurdles, I'm just going to move on.

One of the biggest draws for this sort of thing from the dev side is "how far am I going to have to bend over to use this".

Freely available documentation sounds like a no-brainer.

UX is a tough one, I'm still unsure what the magic bullet there is as I personally believe a lot of itself is generally handwaivy. It's one of those things that you just have some magical touch with (which approximately no one has so don't be foolish and believe that you're the one), or something you gain over time through trial and error.

It's probably hard to get into a UX role that doesn't involve UI as well. So one side of that is being able to actual design UI, and build out some random "product" ideas with the various current tools available which allow you to design UI + make prototypes that seem real (something like Sketch, there's tons of others). This can be helpful for getting some experience together on your own time which hopefully could get you a junior UI/UX somewhere.

The other side of things is being a UI driven developer and try to get in as some sort of frontend UI/UX engineer which deals more with making user experience better vs fleshing out the business logic / internals. These sorts of jobs tend to exist more at larger shops / enterprises than smaller ones.

The third side (yea, this one has three sides) is to just try and get a foot in the door as a junior PM and grow from there. I honestly don't believe this is the best route as I think all it does is breed "pointy haired managers".

I really believe you need some experience in a space before being able to be a good "* Manager" of any kind, whether that be project, product, engineering, or otherwise.

To some extent the environment you work in can be helpful / detrimental to figuring this out.

At a startup / workplaces with that vibe where you don't actually have product influence what you want to do is track how the product progresses in relation to your thoughts on what you would do if you were able to influence the product. Consider literally every product decision and if you would have done that, or something else, and why / why not you think it would work. At some point you'll be able to see if those product features work out, or don't, and can compare that to your ideas on the subject. Hopefully whatever your thoughts are (whether constructive or destructive) towards the product decisions match what actually transpired more often than not, then you probably at least are able to have a finger on the pulse for what's good / bad. For me, a lot of it isn't always knowing what the right decision is, but knowing what the wrongs one are (going down the wrong path too often or too deep is really how bad products are made).

If you're at a startup / workplace where you are able to insert yourself / your input into the product pipeline, then do so and see what happens. If you actually have good / valuable ideas and are able to push them into fruition through whatever current product infrastructure that exists at your company then that should be a plus as well.

I personally believe there is no replacement for having done it before yourself. As an engineer, building products for people whether they are clients, consumers, other business, etc directly are what can give you the best product knowledge feedback. The most I learned as an engineer about building products people want was through personal interactions with consumers of a game I built, along with interacting with clients for applications being constructed and fielding feedback directly from their consumers.

Most of the above handles the "Product" side of Product Management, the rest is of course how well you work with people, but that probably goes without needing be said.

I feel many comments here are confusing "Product" Management with "Project" Management. Many describing being a "people person" which isn't (in my eyes) a needed trait for a product manager, but is for a project manager. There are obviously social aspects of being a product manager, but much of it has to do with relaying what's in your head moreso than trying to manage people day-to-day.

To me, what matters for the OP, is that you are actually a product person? In my experience too many people are just terrible at understanding their field, products, how to actually break down product problems to their basic pieces and build solutions up from there. Being able to trust their designers, ui/ux, engineers to take their vision and execute (or simply just being good at transferring the vision in their head to being executable by others.

If you're not great at the above, please don't try and shoehorn yourself into product management. I've had too many terrible product managers that should have been something entirely different in my day that just literally ruins years of people's lives.

If you are not interested / good at the above, I'd consider a more Project Management role, which is about figuring out how to take a team and turn them into a well-oiled machine that loves working together towards common goals.

In many places (like startups) the line between the two above obviously blurs, my only concern is moving into Product Management role that you're not fit for. I say this more in general for people thinking about this themselves - mostly because of all the Product / Project Managers I've seen, I'd say 2/10 of them I'd actually want to work with again (though they both had engineering backgrounds which works in your favor).

What does "already seeing this" have to do with any meaningful input on the subject?

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The thing that is installed by default.