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When I was a junior dev I found this frustrating because there was an expectation to "act senior" before actually having that authority. Additionally, there was an unspoken expectation that you had to ask for it, which seems to just go against the (inaccurate) belief that so many in this field have that it's a meritocratic.
This seems especially disadvantageous for anyone who feels less comfortable in their role/standing and is less assertive for this or other reasons. I could imagine this is an even bigger problem for people who are different from the current makeup of the team/org, especially for people who are from under-represented groups.
What is your procedure for this as a manager or employee? Is there something I'm missing?","title":"Ask HN: Why are promotion \u201cprocedures\u201d uncommon?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T08:43:02Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"kernoble"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Worst Deal Ever \u2013 ticket resale merger when viagogo bought StubHub for $4.05B"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2020/05/27/worst-deal-ever/#6889b8bb88d1"}},"_tags":["story","author_kernoble","story_23902455"],"author":"kernoble","created_at":"2020-07-20T22:17:10Z","created_at_i":1595283430,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"23902455","points":3,"story_id":23902455,"title":"Worst Deal Ever \u2013 ticket resale merger when viagogo bought StubHub for $4.05B","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:32:33Z","url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2020/05/27/worst-deal-ever/#6889b8bb88d1"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"keeble"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"An Australian Hatchery Uses Automation to Count Crayfish"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://countthings.com/case-studies/0002"}},"_tags":["story","author_keeble","story_28243176"],"author":"keeble","created_at":"2021-08-20T06:11:31Z","created_at_i":1629439891,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"28243176","points":2,"story_id":28243176,"title":"An Australian Hatchery Uses Automation to Count Crayfish","updated_at":"2024-09-20T09:15:03Z","url":"https://countthings.com/case-studies/0002"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"KeenanKeenan"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/"}},"_tags":["story","author_KeenanKeenan","story_46278569"],"author":"KeenanKeenan","created_at":"2025-12-15T18:45:07Z","created_at_i":1765824307,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"46278569","points":1,"story_id":46278569,"title":"Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:12:45Z","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"keeblers_n_bits"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Why Today's Solutions Don't Need Internet-Scale Complexity"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://tailscale.com/blog/10000-times-faster"}},"_tags":["story","author_keeblers_n_bits","story_44068690"],"author":"keeblers_n_bits","created_at":"2025-05-23T00:46:07Z","created_at_i":1747961167,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"44068690","points":1,"story_id":44068690,"title":"Why Today's Solutions Don't Need Internet-Scale Complexity","updated_at":"2025-05-23T00:47:01Z","url":"https://tailscale.com/blog/10000-times-faster"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"kernoble"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"What labels would you use to classify time spent at work?
For example a really simple (unrealistic) labeling for someone whose only job is to write source code in one language, for one project, on a "normally" structured team. Labels = Programming, Debugging, Meeting, On-Break. \n(For the sake of the example, I'm excluding all other common tasks programmers are expected to perform)
Of course many people's jobs have a lot more scope than this example, so I'm curious how you would classify your own work.
I'm asking because I'm trying to get a better handle on how I spend my time at work by classifying chunks of time spent on different tasks. While the core of my job might be "shipping code", there are many work items and projects that might involve very little "shipable code". So when I have days that don't involve "shipping code" it can be hard to .
For context, I currently work as a "software engineer" and my team and role have a pretty wide-ranging scope from maintaining/writing APIs and Web-Apps, to creating new infrastructure. So, I'm curious how my first classification scheme (which I won't share to avoid bias) compares to other people in different roles."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: How would you label the different tasks you perform?"}},"_tags":["story","author_kernoble","story_22357100","ask_hn"],"author":"kernoble","created_at":"2020-02-18T16:20:39Z","created_at_i":1582042839,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"22357100","points":1,"story_id":22357100,"story_text":"What labels would you use to classify time spent at work?
For example a really simple (unrealistic) labeling for someone whose only job is to write source code in one language, for one project, on a "normally" structured team. Labels = Programming, Debugging, Meeting, On-Break. \n(For the sake of the example, I'm excluding all other common tasks programmers are expected to perform)
Of course many people's jobs have a lot more scope than this example, so I'm curious how you would classify your own work.
I'm asking because I'm trying to get a better handle on how I spend my time at work by classifying chunks of time spent on different tasks. While the core of my job might be "shipping code", there are many work items and projects that might involve very little "shipable code". So when I have days that don't involve "shipping code" it can be hard to .
For context, I currently work as a "software engineer" and my team and role have a pretty wide-ranging scope from maintaining/writing APIs and Web-Apps, to creating new infrastructure. So, I'm curious how my first classification scheme (which I won't share to avoid bias) compares to other people in different roles.","title":"Ask HN: How would you label the different tasks you perform?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T05:42:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"fullyHighlighted":true,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"keeble"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"WhisperMe for iOS (The famous Whisper Challenge is now on AppStore)"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://whisperme.io/"}},"_tags":["story","author_keeble","story_12750307"],"author":"keeble","created_at":"2016-10-20T07:22:09Z","created_at_i":1476948129,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"12750307","points":1,"story_id":12750307,"title":"WhisperMe for iOS (The famous Whisper Challenge is now on AppStore)","updated_at":"2024-09-19T23:51:44Z","url":"http://whisperme.io/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"jacquesm"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"I've reset this more than once and the last time I made a careful note of when I did it and to my surprise I found it re-enabled when I checked just now. Make sure you check this thing to see if it hasn't been re-enabled if you believe it to be off right now."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting"}},"_tags":["story","author_jacquesm","story_49643556","ask_hn"],"author":"jacquesm","children":[49643782,49643822,49643850,49643889,49643894,49643900,49643933,49643999,49644012,49644021,49644061,49644075,49644117,49644156,49644246,49644287,49644315,49644501,49644530,49644574,49644575,49644723,49644840,49644917,49644919,49644920,49644974,49644995,49645020,49645078,49645123,49645177,49645290,49645299,49645335,49645358,49645411,49645419,49645474,49645494,49645505,49645508,49645756,49645787,49645788,49646062,49646108,49646451,49647388,49648224,49648615,49649454,49649535,49649769,49650437,49650506,49650681,49651117,49652184,49656657,49657545,49661478,49663437],"created_at":"2026-09-10T13:39:53Z","created_at_i":1789047593,"num_comments":184,"objectID":"49643556","points":469,"story_id":49643556,"story_text":"I've reset this more than once and the last time I made a careful note of when I did it and to my surprise I found it re-enabled when I checked just now. Make sure you check this thing to see if it hasn't been re-enabled if you believe it to be off right now.","title":"Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting","updated_at":"2026-09-11T21:28:57Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"wesleyhales"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["keenable"],"value":"How should agents interact with other agents? What happens when they rap or fight against each other with the pressure of human spectators? Clawfight.ai is an experiment to explore this space.
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