Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

Post by stevefan1999 » Sat, Dec 16, 2023, 2:52 PM UTC

mitchellh wrote: post #15

We've gone full circle! I originally launched Vagrant here on HN in 2010, which was at the top of HN very briefly for the day. Now here I am 14 years later witnessing my departure post in that very same spot. A strange experience! Thanks for the support over the years. A lot of the initial community for the projects I helped start came from here.

I would like to thank you for the amazing products, especially Consul, Nomad, Vagrant, Vault and Terraform, which I started to promote in my company to improve their tech stack.

But at the same time I don't really like some of the features are guarded behind paywalls...like Vault/Consul namespaces or multimaster deployment...and the price for those useful features are nefariously hostile for startups like us.

Post by SOLAR_FIELDS » Sat, Dec 16, 2023, 8:15 PM UTC

earthling8118 wrote: post #190

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s standard big corp parlance for a role that has no direct reports. Obvious terminology for anyone who has worked in an org with a moderate size HR or higher, but anyone else has probably never heard of it. I knew immediately that it meant Individual Contributor but I can easily see someone not knowing it if have never worked in BigCorp

Having worked in a few extremely large organizations myself, I've never had this term used. Only on this site.

Go on Blind and you'll see it used all the time, along with a flurry of other incomprehensible acronyms that make Silicon Valley the TV show seem more real than ever. Blind is probably the strongest representation of BigCo population on the internet in terms of percentage of users.

You'll see it in plenty of Reddit discussions as well. It just so happens that a good hunk of this site happen to work in the kind of environment that the acronym is used frequently so perhaps it's not entirely unreasonable to expect it to be well known.

I swear though, if you haven't been on Blind and you just visit it's like decoding another language with all the acronyms.

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