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Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by cft »

piotrjurkiewicz wrote: post #16

It is clear that Reddit is facing some problems with scalability. I often get server errors during peak hours. But I think that politically-based censorship, which is being enforced by many moderators (with the help of Reddit admins), will kill this service sooner than scalability problems. Users will simply left Reddit when they will become censored. Many users I knew already did that. Moreover, moderators of many s…

>It is much harder to change IP address

Turn on and off the airplane mode while on 3G or 4G data - and you will have a new IP address. It's that simple, takes 5-7 seconds.

From experience, legitimate users with a dissenting opinion will leave after an IP ban. Determined trolls however who want to deface the service will change IPs and come back with vengeance.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by orky56 »

dntrkv wrote: post #12
boomzilla wrote: post #9

What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.

Maybe one day they will fix search?

How about using Algolia like HN?

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by sarahkpeck »

dang wrote: post #11
optimusclimb wrote: post #5

What is a "founding engineer"? It must not mean founder, since then one would just say "founder". It's clearly not Director of Engineering, CTO, or VP o E. I had just assumed this was new phrasing used by recruiters and business people trying to get early engineer hires that they don't want to give a real title to (because if/when the company grows they'll bring in adults to run things and get those titles.) Note, se…

Ok, since "founding" is misleading (or at least distracting) we've replaced it with "early" above.

Interesting, since the TechCrunch article uses the phrase 'Founding' Engineer

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by dang »

sarahkpeck wrote: post #43
dang wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, since "founding" is misleading (or at least distracting) we've replaced it with "early" above.

Interesting, since the TechCrunch article uses the phrase 'Founding' Engineer

The HN guidelines ask submitters to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait. In the latter cases it's standard practice for us to change them here. I don't really think the Techcrunch title was misleading, and you were certainly right to post it as is. But the word "founding" did spark an off-topic subthread, and in cases like that we've found it's easiest to just remove the objection.

Re: Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

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Post by hkmurakami »

optimusclimb wrote: post #30
hkmurakami wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically "Engineer hire #1" (or similar) that was on board super early but wasn't part of the founding team when the team itself was formed. I am guessing the distinction is to delineate the fact that the engineer did not join 1+ year from company founding, which is often the case for Engineer #1.

So basically founder minus the shares?

Well in the case I saw it was founder minus the shares plus quite good pay.
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