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silent1mezzoon So, you want to become an Engineering Manager?

In a lot of newer tech companies it's more of a lateral move at the senior level (e.g. SE3 == EM1). I've worked at a few companies now where I've managed engineers who make more than I do.

It's a different set of skills, you're specializing in people vs code. Companies that stack management on top of IC are basically forcing their best engineers to either go into management or leave for a company that doesn't do this.

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?

The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins is an amazing book for anyone getting into management and then again whenever you move roles/companies.

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

G Adventures | Toronto, Canada | Full-Time, Onsite | https://www.gadventures.com

G Adventures has been a world leader and innovator in sustainable adventure travel since 1990. We invite you to explore a world of tours infused with inspiration and excitement that will take you off the beaten track into the real heart of the destination. Our approach to travel provides small groups and independent travellers the rare opportunity to connect with nature and local cultures.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/g-adventures

Here are our open roles:

- Full Stack Developer, Customer Systems: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/full-st...

- Intermediate Full Stack Developer: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/interme...

- iOS Developer, Customer Systems: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/ios-mob...

- Systems Integration Engineer: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/systems...

Tech Stack: We’re primarily a Python shop, using Django for our websites. We also have a few services written in Go and have started to build out our front ends using React. We use Github to host our code, Jenkins (for now) to automate our tests, and right now most of our applications and code live in VMs in a Colo just outside of Toronto. We’re in the process of transitioning to AWS. Other common technologies we use are Postgres (primary DBs), Redis (cache and key/value store), RabbitMQ (messaging broker) and Celery (task queue).

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Absolutely apply. I've been trying to find people with Django/React exp and am hiring at all levels (despite it saying intermediate).

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

:slow-clap: Luckily not possible now (and hasn't been for quite some time).

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

G Adventures | Toronto, Canada | Full-Time, Onsite | https://www.gadventures.com

G Adventures has been a world leader and innovator in sustainable adventure travel since 1990. We invite you to explore a world of tours infused with inspiration and excitement that will take you off the beaten track into the real heart of the destination. Our approach to travel provides small groups and independent travellers the rare opportunity to connect with nature and local cultures.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/g-adventures

Here are our open roles:

- Android Developer, Customer Systems: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/android...

- Full Stack Developer, Customer Systems: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/full-st...

- Intermediate Full Stack Developer: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/interme...

- iOS Developer, Customer Systems: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/ios-mob...

- Systems Integration Engineer: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/systems...

- Website Systems Manager, Customer Systems: https://www.gadventures.com/careers/position-details/website...

Tech Stack: We’re primarily a Python shop, using Django for our websites. We also have a few services written in Go and have started to build out our front ends using React. We use Github to host our code, Jenkins (for now) to automate our tests, and right now most of our applications and code live in VMs in a Colo just outside of Toronto. We’re in the process of transitioning to AWS. Other common technologies we use are Postgres (primary DBs), Redis (cache and key/value store), RabbitMQ (messaging broker) and Celery (task queue).

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?

For those that have started a tech blog for your own engineering teams, how did you get people to write? How did you get buy-in from management?

I'm trying to get our tech blog off the ground but it's difficult to get buy-in from everyone.

silent1mezzoon Why I'm Making Python 2.8

What another load of crap. Call it something else but this isn't Python. I'd never use this because it's not official. Who knows if or how long it'd be supported for or if any backdoors would/could be introduced.

I've scheduled time this year for my teams project to update to Python 3. It's expensive in the short term but in the long term we get continued support and new features which is a huge win.

silent1mezzoon Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

Would really like to see this happen with .ly domains too.

silent1mezzoon Configurable User Models in Django 1.5

I'm going to have a blog post going through how to migrate sometime next week. You should subscribe ;)

PS I'm the author of this post.

silent1mezzoon AMA with Barack Obama

I should have asked a better question. Still happy he answered mine.

silent1mezzoon Django 1.4 final released

Here's a good list of changes http://procrastinatingdev.com/django/most-important-changes-...

silent1mezzoon How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide

If we've learned anything from this week it's post something sexist to receive a lot of negative press (as it should).

silent1mezzoon Make it Easy to Unsubscribe from your Email List

+1 That'd be a great feature.

silent1mezzoon Milk Inc. to shut down Oink on March 31st

Reddit and Digg spawned around the same time. I'm sure Digg had a little impact but I think they were being developed around the same time.

silent1mezzoon You should Heroku

This is the main reason I chose Heroku. I noticed that at previous jobs I'd spend at least a few hours every week maintaining hardware.

In the end the ease and reliability are what sold me.

silent1mezzoon Headphones for Hackers

I've been using my Audio-Technica ATH-M35's for a few years now and love them.

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Getting traffic to a new Blog

I just did. I hadn't thought of doing that.

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: Getting traffic to a new Blog

I'm definitely trying to do that. I've been sticking to a schedule of 3 posts a week. All of them are as high of a quality as I can write (I'm still a little rusty).

I guess I'll just keep it up.

silent1mezzoon Web Developer tool box

You really need to have more information about what this is. Why would I give you my email if I don't know what the product does?

silent1mezzoon Discuss: What do you think of push notifications?

They have their uses. Some are important to see, others are not. It really depends on what the notification is for.

silent1mezzoon Quotes from Android partners

Do they all have the same PR company?

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What's the bug?

silent1mezzoon Ask HN: What do i need to learn to build this?

+1 Choose whichever language you feel comfortable with / can get free books of.

silent1mezzoon Baby names based on domain availability