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Networking with people you know in your career

Well I got to director in big tech with an org about 35 people and now I have around 15 people but bigger scope, and others have done with similar numbers too. Depends on the culture I guess, some cultures are all about empire building, others about impact / scope

Even within company, you want to have network laterally and upwards in different orgs, that is necessary for higher scope of work usually

> 1.) Scope and headcount. It's really all about headcount - that is the qualification for being a Director. Increased scope is how you get the headcount.

Scope != headcount, in matrix orgs (like big tech) there are directors with very small orgs (5-10 people)

Why do you think time or your management experience would put you in path on director instead of others ? This question is very hard to answer without a lot of context. The TLDR is that you haven't been performing at director level or there's no need for another director in the org you are in

Joplin, multi OS, OSS and syncs

Why is L1 any worse ?

Lol isn’t that the truth, or my son !

Any podcasts recommendation ?

I don't think people really do it all like you imagine, you probably have the wrong image of folks based on social media highlights.

Another thing to consider is that much of what you see was built over years. If you take Redis for example its first release was in 2009.

What makes you think they don't fund it ?

Have you checked build.nvidia.com by any chance ?

I had one that I enjoyed many years ago, to write a service that calculated the Nth digit of Pi.

It was up to you what you wanted to do / how / if you wanted to deploy. They only asked that you write how you would've liked to receive such service from another org.

Then in the day of the in person interview we reviewed my code / README / tests ; was very nice.

On my sleep

This is a very snarky/bitter view of it. In my career I have done fairly well and have been promoted after the fact a couple of times. People who don't take these opportunities rarely move up to bigger responsibilities. At big tech is usually expected that you are already performing at a level above for a certain period of time before being promoted

This is a great article. Reflects my experience both in big and small companies. Anyone can be the "Project leader", doesn't need to be a TPM, PM or ENG. It isn't an org chart role, it is a role you are fulfilling. I have seen many different org chart roles succeeding or failing at it.

You don't need a build step if you do everything in javascript without jsx. I have done it like that in the past on air gapped environments (and vendored the deps)

What's the use case for the encrypted passwords out of curiosity ?

I have reached limits on all cloud providers, it might surprise you but there's no "real cloud", it's just computers, and computers are a limited number of resources. For many reasons cloud providers might run out of computers on regions

With all the AI generated content, we will be having AI models using AI generated text on the internet. Blogs from people who are hopefully not using AI to generate text might be the only valid source of truth in a near future

Visual Effects industry is really cool. 3d worlds applied to more than M&E as well (Omniverse, Unity, Unreal)

hackernews is not representative of the real world, you can pretty much round to zero % the amount of companies in the world using Clojure compared to main stream languages

Joplin, it's free/OSS (I do pay for the sync 1 dollar a month which works pretty well), it works across Windows/Linux/Mac/iphone ( I am always on different computers), it's simple and no bells/whistle - more focus on actually taking notes...

What does ISR stand for ?

I subscribe to the pragmaticengineer and check HN every now and then

fwiw that's what most of the big companies do on their product that actually make money. All the "kubernetes revolution" is pretty new, as are contianers, and companies move very slowly. The core products only move if they really see an advantage

you can pay to synchronize w/ their backend, is what I do

Joplin

Not true at all.

Yep was hired once and hired someone once. Both great experiences, still friends with my ex-boss and my ex-coworker !