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It's wild to me that they would acquire a company for $295m and then shut it down six years later. I'd be really curious to know if this is a failed acquisition or if they think they'll be able to retain previous ops genie customers on their new products.

First off, it sounds like you’re going through a lot and human to human I want to acknowledge how hard that is. I’d suggest trying to talk to someone to help you heal and overcome the things that you’ve been coping with. When I’ve worked stressful jobs I’ve found exercise to be really helpful. Lastly, just remember that while you need your job economically you’ve already decided to leave, so as much as possible try to not take any of the actions of others personally. If you can put some mental space between your work and yourself it might help you to keep enough energy to focus on a search for something more fulfilling.

There are great teams out there, it does take a lot of work to find them but it is possible to find something fulfilling. Take care of yourself enough during this time so you have the energy to go find something better. I’d encourage you to get started.

Invisible | Remote (EST +/- 6) | Full Time | https://www.invisible.co/technology-careers/ Invisible builds a platform for Operations to run Business Processes. We stand at the intersection of humans and machines building scalable, repeatable processes for business using a combination of automation and humans in the loop. We've built an in house platform that handles the execution of these processes (think Zapier or IFFT that combines automations and human agents) and are solving interesting problems on teams ranging from Infra (Kubernetes, GCP) to UI (Python, Django, Typescript, React, Next.js). We're currently hiring across multiple teams from Junior to Principle level and including Engineering Managers and Directors.

Invisible | Remote (EST +/- 6) | Full Time | https://www.invisible.co/technology-careers/ Invisible builds a platform for Operations to run Business Processes. We stand at the intersection of humans and machines building scalable, repeatable processes for business using a combination of automation and humans in the loop. We've built an in house platform that handles the execution of these processes (think Zapier or IFFT that combines automations and human agents) and are solving interesting problems on teams ranging from Infra (Kubernetes, GCP) to UI (Python, Django, Typescript, React, Next.js). We're currently hiring across multiple teams from Junior to Principle level and including Engineering Managers and Directors.

Invisible | Remote (EST +/- 6) | Full Time | https://www.invisible.co/technology-careers/ Invisible builds a platform for Operations to run Business Processes. We stand at the intersection of humans and machines building scalable, repeatable processes for business using a combination of automation and human interaction. We've built an in house platform that handles the execution of these processes (think Zapier or IFFT that combines automations and human agents) and are solving interesting problems on teams ranging from Infra (Kubernetes, GCP) to UI (Python, Django, Typescript, React, Next.js). We're currently hiring across multiple teams from Junior to Principle level and including Engineering Managers and Directors.

Invisible | Remote (GMT +/- 4) | Full Time | https://www.invisible.co/technology-careers/ Invisible builds a platform for Operations to run Business Processes. We stand at the intersection of humans and machines building scalable, repeatable processes for business using a combination of automation and human interaction. We've built an in house platform that handles the execution of these processes (think Zapier or IFFT that combines automations and human agents) and are solving interesting problems on teams ranging from Infra (Kubernetes, GCP) to UI (Python, Django, Typescript, React, Next.js). We're currently focusing on hiring Principal and Senior level Full Stack and ML engineers, but we are interested in dynamic engineers at any stage in their career.

I joined a project that was fully deployed on Vercel. We routinely ran into issues with limitations, outages and sharp edges. Our junior devs had also taken advantage of Vercel specific features (I remember a Vercel specific request object in the code specifically).

Given all the problems and the vendor lock in from tight coupling I advise everyone I discuss Vercel with to avoid them like the plague.

Invisible | Remote (GMT +/- 4) | Full Time | https://inv.tech/invisible-engineering Invisible builds a platform for Operations to run Business Processes. We stand at the intersection of humans and machines building scalable, repeatable processes for business using a combination of automation and human interaction. We've built an in house platform that handles the execution of these processes (think Zapier or IFFT that combines automations and human agents) and are solving interesting problems on teams ranging from Infra (Kubernetes, GCP) to UI (Python, Django, Typescript, React, Next.js).

We're currently focusing on hiring Principal and Senior level Full Stack and ML engineers, but we are interested in dynamic engineers at any stage in their career.

I’m willing to admit that poor usage can make any tool a problem. But, tRPC is set up to make it easy to directly expose your backend for use in a component. For new projects that’s fantastic, for larger projects and teams having the ‘friction’ of defining a gRPC, GraphQL or REST endpoint is leading to more thoughtful API design and ability to keep isolation between layers.

If you only ever use Typescript and are sure you’ll never need to interact with the code in any other language or service in a different repo it’s fine. But as soon as you need to reuse that backend for anything else you’re stuck building something new.

I'm currently in the process of removing tRPC from our codebase. It's been a nightmare of tight coupling. I've also found that it encourages more junior developers to not think about interfaces / data access patterns (there's a mapping from Prisma straight through to the component). It's fantastic for rapid prototyping but really paints you into a corner if you ever want to decouple the codebase.

The company that I work at does exactly the service that you're describing. We recently spun up a team of Math PhDs to help with data labeling. (https://www.invisible.co/). We're seeing more and more of our clients ask for graduate level data labelers and content creators.

Can anyone recommend a book or resource for an introduction to spy craft? I’m sure there are more approaches like ‘canary traps’ that would be useful mechanisms to understand.

I think it's time for me transition into a product role...

This is interesting but I’d hate to work on a project where this was used. Commits should tell me why a change happened not just what code changed.

Built in admin is the killer feature that keeps me coming back to Django over and over.

I read The Dynamo paper [1] early in my career and its use of consistent hashing inspired me to use similar approaches in systems I've developed.

1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/systemsandpapers/papers/amazon-dyna...

I believe OP's point was that historically journalism organizations have had a positive impact on open source tools. Not that they are directly related.

I thought the same thing. Are there examples of companies that paid workers while they're striking? Do I just not know how strikes normally work?

The article mentions Facebook closing two of their smaller offices without mentioning that 770 is still the same size and that they’re getting ready to move into the largest office they’re ever had in the city near Penn Station.

A change you made moved some metric a measurable amount (usually aligned with a team or product goal).

You put these little nuggets of impact on your performance review.

It could be a total coincidence, could be designed to take advantage of a news cycle that's already full, could be that it has taken them this long to put a plan together since their stock started dropping. If your theory is that there's a political motivation there are a couple of simpler explanations before we jump to that conclusion.

The engineering team at Invisible Technologies hires globally and pays above that salary range you listed (we’re US based)

We’d love to talk to you, you can either apply here https://www.invisible.co/invisible-engineering or email me personally (my email is my HN username @invisible.co)

It’s kind of coming from the opposite direction, but it feels like Postgres extensions solve many of the needs you’re describing. They allow a developer to use the underlying database engine while extending it to include domain specific primitives.

Until now attempts to remove the GIL have come at the cost of reduced single threaded performance.

This is the first suggestion that doesn’t degrade single threaded performance.

I liked "The Long Distance Leader" by Kevin Eikenberry. It had several tactical tricks related to communication medium that I found useful.

Pretty sure most FAANG companies don't list salaries on their open positions. You can find that info through 3rd party sources like Levels.fyi though.

Invisible | Remote (GMT +/- 4) | Full Time | https://inv.tech/invisible-engineering

Invisible builds a platform for Worksharing. We stand at the intersection of humans and machines building scalable, repeatable processes for business using a combination of automation and human interaction. We've built an in house platform that handles the execution of these processes (think Zapier or IFFT that combines automations and human agents) and are solving interesting problems on teams ranging from Infra (Kubernetes, GCP) to UI (Typescript, React, Next.js).

We're currently focusing on hiring Principal and Senior level engineers, but are interested in dynamic engineers at any stage in their career.

I had a serious sense of FOMO after working at startups throughout my 20s. In my early 30s I joined a FAANG company and absolutely hated it, left FAANG after a year and came back to startups. There are some really interesting processes that these companies use, but the problems that they have aren't broadly applicable to startups so it's not so much about "the right way" as it is about "their way". However, if you really want to try it there's very little downside. I found it pretty easy to jump from a FAANG back into startups and now I can sell "that I've seen both sides" when interviewing / managing.

I've been using reclaim.ai for time blocking and really liking it. One additional feature reclaim.ai has is "smart" 1:1s which help me to schedule recurring meetings with my team (which is super helpful with our WFH global team).

There seem to be several calendar management apps competing in this space right now, excited to see more productivity features being built from the competition.