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Your reg dates are 2012 and 2014. As you know, this is hacker news. not c-level news, not middle management news.. hacker news.
by gardenhedge 3y ago
Your reg dates are 2012 and 2014. As you know, this is hacker news. not c-level news, not middle management news.. hacker news.
- imdsm 3y agoThat's exactly the point. I'm C level, but at heart, I'm a hacker and and engineer, and have been for what, 24 years now (sobering). Reflecting on this isn't a criticism (though we all know how touchy engineer-types can be) -- it's just an acknowledgment. To E-types, firing is loss of job, loss of livelihood, to C-types, it's a reposition of an asset, a reassignment of a resource to a new project. All we're doing here is acknowledging this.
- gardenhedge 3y ago> though we all know how touchy engineer-types can be I am unfamiliar with this
- saagarjha 3y agoThere’s no reason a manager can’t also have been a hacker. Or still might be, from time to time.
- hef19898 3y agoEven YCs application includes the option to show examples of hacking processes. Good managers and C-Level people do that qiuite often.
- icelancer 3y agoLike I said, we all have roles to play. I suppose you missed that. May you learn along the way in your career.
- gardenhedge 3y agoI didn't miss anything. May you start your learning journey soon.
- eddtries 3y agoThinking about this, can you think of a great hacker who isn't C-level? Look at the most famous programmers of all time, or people who've made the most popular tools like Ruby on Rails, and they're all C-level.
- gardenhedge 3y agoWhile I don't follow 'great' hackers, here's some names. I haven't actually checked to see if they held C-level positions so some might have. Yukihiro Matsumoto, Satoshi Nakamoto, Linus Torvalds, Jeff Dean, Aaron Swartz, Richard Stallman, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Guido van Rossum, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy