What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Chinese Mold Maker

Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by DanielHB on Monday October 09, 2023 @06:48AM (#37818997)

To have good technical leadership, the leaders need to be well versed of all parts of the stack used in the products. It is hard to find generalists that broad given how much experience and education is necessary to reach high enough in each field

Heck even software-only companies have problems with this where the technical leadership is, for example, of backend background and they completely fail in frontend and data analysis fronts while having rock solid security.

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by simonbarker87 on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:03AM (#37819080)

Hmmmm, sounds like my future niche then. I’ve got a PhD in electronics, developed a consumer product and ran a factory for 8 years to make it, been in dev for 5 years (on top of 10 years of coding) and am now a CTO for a software company.

What even would that role be called? I suppose CTO but if a company that does HW and SW.

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by aquariusDue on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:38AM (#37819309)

Chief Technology Unicorn just doesn't have the same nice ring to it.

Also there's T shaped skills and there's you with:

  _________
     /|\
    / | \
   /  |  \
  /   |   \

Not trying to be snarky, just trying to point out the rarity of such a skill set imo.

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by contingencies on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:08AM (#37819583)

FYI that is the character for "don't" / "no" / "not" in Chinese.

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by picture on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:23AM (#37820220)

Usually the right slash of 不 doesn't touch the rest, so I didn't notice it

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by simonbarker87 on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:11AM (#37820113)

Lol, I quite like CTU but we are dangerously close to the Coding Ninja type job descriptions of the 2010s!

No snark taken, I’ve got plenty of blind spots in my skills so those T stems should be a little shallower probably but I’ve been fortunate to cover a lot of ground in the last 15 years.

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by jrexilius on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:50AM (#37819415)

That is a rare combination skillset. And awesome for the company that needs it.

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by mejutoco on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:27AM (#37819717)

I suggest founder/CEO as a title :)

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by daelon on Monday October 09, 2023 @02:37PM (#37823658)

I have a similar (but less impressive) background, and I like to joke that I'm a "full spectrum" SWE.

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