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Re:Ask HN: Moving from an IC Role to Vice President at a young age, an... on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:53PM (#42570633)
Definitely noticed the rampant title inflation in that industry, there’s two more rungs of VP-style titles before the actual company C suite at the firm I’m joining, haha.

Ask HN: Moving from an IC Role to Vice President at a young age, any advice?

Posted by sfredd on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Long story short, I currently work at a big tech firm (synonymous with a rainforest) on a fast growing cloud product as a solutions architect. At about 4 years of experience so far there. I was recently offered a VP title at a Fortune 1000 systems integrator that has product ambitions to lead technical implementation of this cloud service for their organization and customers. It’s a significant...

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Re:A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:22AM (#28703159)
Not disagreeing with you! Just pointing out that there will be additional costs over just 13 cents. Excited to check out R2.
Re:A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:05AM (#28703058)
Cloudflare will charge per request over a certain threshold, like S3 does for API calls, so it won’t be just 13 cents depending on the rate of requests coming in.

“R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold — currently planned to be in the single digit requests per second range. Above this range, R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers. Our object storage will be extremely inexpensive for infrequent access and yet capable of and cheaper than major incumbent providers at scale.”

Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/

Re:Atom 1.2 on Sunday November 15, 2015 @12:00AM (#10568553)
Why doesn't anyone create a viable, open source XCode alternative? Are all the libraries proprietary?
Re:Chronos Will Turn Any Watch into a Smartwatch on Sunday November 08, 2015 @06:22PM (#10530489)
I've never been able to use my smartwatch (Pebble) frequently enough. It's a combination of battery life and the fact that it doesn't look enough like a real watch. This might change that for me.