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This is so sad, loss of a good pilot. I only saw Dick fly once, a group of us had flown our LongEz’s and VariEz’s down to Mojave for his brother, Burt Rutan’s birthday.

Dick took out his LongEz, and I realized he had more piloting skills in his little finger than I’d ever have. That plane did things at 100 feet that I wouldn’t be comfortable doing at 5000 feet.

People know him as 1 of the two who flew voyager, and the article on touches on a tiny fraction of the adventures he had in his life. Seemed like a life well lived.

It's not immediately clear to me from the article, but this is the city of New Brunswick, NJ, USA, domain makes more sense now. It's not New Brunswick a Canadian province which I first thought of.

Kyle was a fine CTO, and these are the qualities you listed.

CEO is a different role, and without any checks in pace he’s pushed the organization so hard it is where it is today. Even the incident aside, just look at the handling and drip drip of news since going from bad to worse.

I thought batter example would the presence of a Hard Rock Cafe. :)

The actual title is:

> Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State

Which mashed a lot more sense since Waymo, Cruise and Zoox all have L4 autonomous cars on the road today in California operating with no human inside at all.

Left my job in March, after a series of terrible managers I was waking at night dreading coming back from vacation. Being FANG adjacent, it paid well and I have no rush to find new work and I'm half looking and half taking a sabbatical.

I also changed jobs during the .com crash, and this feels by far better. Recruiters are still reaching out and returning messages, companies are interviewing. There's a ton of laughably low ball spam. During .com is was pure crickets. That said, I'm also 20 years on in my career and have skills/experience that are in demand.

Taking a break has been the best thing ever. I get to spend time with my son, I'm learning rust and doing Advent of Code, and took a 1day/week contract with a former employer. They want me to review and better document systems I built for them years ago. This gives me the opportunity to see how they've aged, what we did well and what we should have done better, and I'm being paid to learn this. :)

Then: up at 3am worried about work Now: sleeping well again

Thoughts on the industry: why does tech have terrible founder worship and terrible sr+ managers. Do we really need a director to be able to code, or should they be focused on the 150+ people?

This role's been open for a while, probably just recruiting getting re-organized after being cut to the bone.

Nah, this role has been open to long, survived recruiting cuts, and it appears even layoffs. I wonder if FB will get so desperate they even stop trying to downlevel.

You’ll laugh but bear with me,

Meta recruiter just reached out to me this week, so even parts of Facebook are hiring, and my relevant skill set. Of course I don’t care about VR goggles, but you just had large layoffs, why would I work for you? (Plus ok Zuck is ruining your core business, but that aside)

Layoffs hurt inside and outside too.

I’d have to guess, but fake internet points? The ability to say “I’m ranked 5th at blah blah chess website”. Maybe it’s not even to others but just to themselves.

I don't want agree but I do.

I think there might be an alternate to leet code studying. I did Advent of Code (AoC) in 2019 to learn a new language. I then did some interviewing, and remember a few things on leet code problems "oh, this just like this AoC problem" and applying the same skill set.

So maybe doing AoC and solving funny Elf and Sleigh problems could be more fun? Maybe not as efficient though. ;)

Plus I suspect the conversation rate of being raised catholic is much much higher than later in life without a religious background. Or in other words making new little catholic children is good for the church.

What does Jr mean? :) For example it's expected that our L2s (new grad) won't stay L2s for long. It's meant to be a very quick set of promotions up to L3 then L4 (Sr I) where things get real. Why would I care? Because along with a promo come promo raises and movement to new salary bands. At the higher levels the salary bands expand a lot and then your manager has wiggle room to work on your total comp.

So the first question I'd ask is, how am I meeting the requirements for my level, and how do I get to the next level? Ask to see what a promo package looks like. Making sure you check all the requirements for your level, and are performing on some at the next level if your fastest way to get a real salary bump at my company. This can happen every 6 months.

Now, this is what's true at my company and how it works here. How does your company work? What knobs does your manage have that he can turn? If you want to stay there a few years, have this conversation with your manager and understand how the system work, what's possible and does this fit with your goals.