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maayank··on Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
Or, you could have these conversations without OKRs?
maayank··on Ask HN: How is the nano texture MacBook display for coding?
For example, is it less sharp to the point of annoyance when looking at text? Or alternatively, easier on the eyes?
maayank··on How Tailscale's infra team stays small
Yes, that’s what I do. The way I read the tailscale post it suggested a magical way to circumvent this credentials bootstrapping dance
maayank··on How Tailscale's infra team stays small
> Establishing AWS identity outside of AWS is a headache, and often comes with a chicken-and-egg problem of needing to possess a secret to show you are allowed to get a secret.

> For most stuff here, we can rely on the fact that every connection over Tailscale is encrypted and authenticated to an identity

Mm, okay, but you still have the chicken and egg problem of distributing the creds to join your tailnet.

Isn’t it not that different than distributing aws creds to access secrets manager?

maayank··on Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
Wow, good catch. Forgot about this part!
maayank··on First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU
Private algotrading? Nice. May the odds be always at your favor!
maayank··on First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU
What are you doing with the workstation that it’s worth the cost?
maayank··on Ask HN: Tips for hacking a TV?
How do you discharge them safely?
maayank··on Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?
I agree to some degree, it’s a question of extent. If you sell a very specific feature that no one else will use for a 20K annual revenue customer, then it’s not obvious at all it’s beneficial to the company at large. Personally I’ve seen too many cases here where individual sales people still campaign for the sale internally, supposedly for the commission.
maayank··on Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?
I was going to write a response and you wrote it all. Especially in SAAS companies, a "strong" sales team in my experience was an hidden fast-track to becoming an integrations company.
maayank··on Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
How did you discover that blog? If not seen the vim article first, how did you came to it later?
maayank··on Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux
What do you do for persistence? Simply copying back tmpfs to rootfs on shutdown?
maayank··on Founder Mode
I meant what is your advice regarding how to do it well/what you mean by doing it well, precisely because of what you wrote :) apologies for the unclarity
maayank··on Founder Mode
How to fire well?
maayank··on Founder Mode
I like to say "you can't delegate vision"
maayank··on Some thoughts on OpenSSH 9.8's PerSourcePenalties feature
I’m genuinely interested to hear criticism re: security in openBSD if any one has an interesting link or take
maayank··on How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
It’s one of those technologies where there’s merit to use them in some situations but are too often cargo culted.
maayank··on Ask HN: What feature flags platform do you use?
Nice! Do you enforce these 'budgets' in CI or some such? If so, how?
maayank··on Ask HN: Will peer to peer services overtake centralised corporations?
I would consider (sadly) Matsodon as an anti-example. As much as we all know the issues with “the algorithm”, people find real value in automatic curation that I suspect is best served by a centralized authority.
maayank··on Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
What do you eat for protein in the current diet?

What was your experience with fish?

maayank··on GameStop stock soars after 'Roaring Kitty' reveals $175M bet
Board decides each quarter on behalf of the stockholders whether to pay dividends or reinvest profits to increase the potential of future dividends.
maayank··on Big data is dead (2023)
What do you mean by 'variety'?
maayank··on Konrad Zuse's Homepage
Tiny nitpick, just for reference

> Konrad Zuse Museum in Hünich

I believe you refer to the museum in Hünfeld

maayank··on The Alternative Implementation Problem
> I work in an industry that requires 2 seperate implementations of all critical software components

Very interesting, what industry if you may discuss it a bit more?

maayank··on Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?
> ISPs often deprioritize traffic from S3

I wonder why

maayank··on Everything Curl
Is it a valid use of the issues mechanism? I’ve always seen it as exclusively a bug report mechanism and the rest as spam. Maybe my etiquette here is too old fashioned
maayank··on A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
What did you especially like in it?
maayank··on Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority
“Developer time is not a KPI and we pay you the same whether you work 160, 180 or 200 hours a month”
maayank··on How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
Interesting take, thanks
maayank··on The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022)
Awesome read. A real life Nathan Fielder (I mean, the “character” Nathan plays)
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