jressey

How do you get the email address for 10?

My 2 cents is that it's going to be mostly recruiters, sales, customer success, and other misc operations folks. That's the pattern I've been observing since the post-covid layoffs have begun.

I did not know that there was a job "archivist" at big tech companies.

Does anyone here have experience? Would you share any of your interesting stories?

I've got no qualms with folks who can afford it playing the big jackpots from time to time, especially because the money coming in is typically earmarked for positive social programs.

Want to talk about disgusting: The governments hold the lotteries! More disgusting: People actually play them!

Write notes with your hand, paper or digital, when you notice something important.

You will almost never revisit them in a meaningful way. It is better to just focus on using note-taking to pay attention.

I respect your hustle and understanding of what makes a successful product. I'm making no comment on that.

I was in general asking the community about how often they get paid to start apps vs. continue them.

This is a serious question: Do any of you folks get paid good money to start projects? In my career I have "started" projects for maybe 2-5% of my time. All of the real effort goes in to massaging the app to actually solve unique business problems, about 80-90% on edge cases.

Bold and cynical claim: Making and selling apps like this is akin to building a social media brand about building social media brands. The problem this solves is only experienced by serial creators who like starting projects, not making useful stuff. I personally know 2 people who are like that attempted to start this exact same concept for a company, and that was like 6 years ago, and it was Rails too.

The commenter is comparing a core GOP belief: Minimal gun control with a fringe Democratic belief: Defund the police.

Any comparison of the parties can't be done in good faith.

You're gonna publicly confront this person who has reached out to you? I think you just lost a lot of goodwill from the participants of this discussion.

It actually makes me wonder how responsible you are for the misfortune you've experienced in your career.

I agree with you. I guess my words are for "good" managers, at least those acting in good faith.

If you're an engineer who feels like you're afraid your manager will do this, I'd love to talk to you about working for me.

Really works for me. I make more money and have a lot more influence on my world. I am a total control freak though, and really can't get satisfaction if I'm not able to make real changes to my organization.

- Nobody will tell you, or even know, if you're doing a good job. Meaningful metrics are trailing and your reports will lie to you instead of giving you constructive feedback. A lot of the time they simply don't think about what kind of feedback will help you.

- You will ruin peoples' dinners. You will make decisions that will cause people to complain about you at home and be nasty to their family members. Sometimes it's because you made a mistake and sometimes it's business. Get right back on that horse.

- You are actually in charge, accountable, and responsible for some or all of your department. That can cause a lot of anxiety, and may result in some uncomfortable time commitments. You might coordinate a disaster response and have absolutely nothing to contribute except imparting a sense of urgency. It is very hard for me to take time off, whereas when I was a dev I could easily slack on Thursday that I'm blowing off the rest of the week since I met my commitments.

- Time management, oh my goodness. You will start some days with an empty calendar and not get off of the phone until 6. Or you may actually get a free day and decide it's really important to build some workflow automation for your dev team tools. This is where having tech chops makes the job super fun.

- Seeing people grow and internalize your advice. Hearing your own words or seeing your own behavior in up and comers is easily the most rewarding experience I've had professionally.

- You really don't get new information and there are really no secrets. I kinda expected to be privy to all kinds of performance and comp data but we're all just winging it.

Move your resources to the one you didn't pick and point your domain registrar there.

"Helvetica® Now Variable builds on the groundbreaking work of 2019’s Helvetica Now release."

I am so far out of touch that I cannot believe this is relevant to anyone outside of designers who build their career on constantly changing to the newest thing?