liquidpele

I have noticed there are certain job titles that will pigeonhole you… if you’re going for a development position then never put anything QA or TPM on the résumé. Ie make sure the resume is tailored to the job.

… how long do you think a century is lol

Ha, bullshit. It’s always because they’re giving teams away for free with office 365.

Depends on the project doesn’t it? Website building is pretty much commodity now, but even taking one step forward and designing scalable public APIs its going to require a different caliber developer.

I'll take that as a "no".

TPMs are almost universally fluff positions. The amount they make is absurd for what they do. I will die on this hill.

PMs are often the same, although the position can have value if there's clear expectations and enough sales/customer complexity to warrant it.

It's not "after a few years", and plenty of people just fail completely at management. It's realistically the same "hack" as "jump around companies to get good raises" - i.e. companies will pay out to fill a position, but not to keep a position filled.

> Even if the CEO isn't a technical engineer literally working on the code, they are ultimately accountable for getting engineers and designers to build the right product.

You haven't had to have meetings with a CEO before, have you?

Artful yes, concise... I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Holy cow you were not kidding….

> Illich’s central contention was that persons are relational beings embedded in a matrix of the natural cosmos, convivial community with others and, as a fallen but still faithful priest, God’s grace. As the maverick thinker saw it, Western modernity rent asunder this multidimensional oneness of “Life.”

The whole thing is full of this… sounds like Depak Chopra level word salad trying to hide the obvious behind confusing vocabulary.

This… and trying to squeeze dates out of everyone to fill boxes in a document.

> Very few engineers want to maintain relationships with customers, interview users to identify potential features, manage leadership, play politics for resource allocation, and so on.

I’ve never met a PM that did any of that either ;)

Most firewalls and gateway routers already do. The issue is more for internet connected services, where backbone routing can’t do that for scale/redundancy routing reasons.

I think for people that care the biggest obstacles are when a company makes it very clear that you’re just wasting your time by caring. I had a previous company where I worked my butt off on a product for a year and got a bad review. The next year I basically slacked off and didn’t care anymore and got a good review that year (my theory is I socialized and went to meetings more, which got me “seen” lol). After that I found a new job.

It’s almost certainly not a legal takedown request, but this is always been an issue with the DMCA… it’s far too easy to make fraudulent requests, and there is almost never real punishment for them because they require financial harm, which is going to exclude anything except other companies.

Careful there because it’s more likely that the already more popular person also happens to be the person that gets the most donations.

You say that like they weren’t told to do this by the executive team.

No no, you see, it’s a lot of work having endless meetings about what wording to put into documents no one would care about if they didn’t exist.

Chrome was the first browser to stop letting plugins crash the whole thing, so yea it was a thing before for sure, but it was still way better than other things like ActiveX or Java applets…

Android did support it for a time though, it was a pretty good selling point in fact... but then google dropped it too :(

Like many things, it sounds good in theory which is why many try it... but in reality it often turns to shit because you end up with 4 quazi-managers all stepping over everyone else and constantly asking the team to do extra work (like generating data/reports or attend meetings) that's really their own damn jobs because surprise-surprise being technically capable of more than making spreadsheets wasn't part of the original job requirements.

I hate Adobe with the passion of 100 suns for killing flash like they did… yea it had problems, most software does, but it was like 20 years ahead of its time ffs, and the web has been ridiculously bland since they killed it. My conspiracy theory is that apple and google paid them to kill it to force sites to support mobile.

Because it’s not about the jobs, it’s about what salary people will settle for.

If a family had to make X to live comfortable before, now you can do so with each of you making half that as long as it adds up to X. People shouldn’t settle for less, but they do even if only a few percent… where before people didn’t to the same degree because it had more immediate impact.

This in turn is one of the several market forces that has contributed to deflated wages.

Imho EM has become a lot more difficult because it has been split into Manager, PM, TPM, scrum master, and all kinds of other shit. It’s weird watching teams struggle so much because you have 3 or 4 people trying to do similar jobs and stepping all over one another and ownership goes out the window.

More like “we hired a new principal arch who drove a change they personally liked, and everything was better because it allowed a lot of time to fix tech debt”

To be fair, this is mostly a consequence of women entering the workforce. Not that that’s bad, but it’s an unintended consequence that companies were then able to convince workers to work for less because people could survive on it still.

Of course he can sue, whether he has evidence enough to make it worth it he should ask a lawyer.

Wasn’t this pretty much already known via https://levels.fyi ?

This acts like cheaters didn’t exist before AI, give me a break.

It’s also nice to have the tiniest filter via a UI that takes more than one brain cell to figure out.