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Why use JWT? https://www.educative.io/edpresso/why-should-you-use-jwts

There are downsides for almost everything out there. Outright dismissing JWTs is not correct.

rahulpadalkaron Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)

As a web dev i found this article rather insightful.

rahulpadalkaron How I motivate myself to write

I think the lack of interest is because of lack of information. Eg. I don't like making YouTube videos but if it helps me make some money then i can find motivation to make videos.

rahulpadalkaron Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)

The title reminds me of the office episode.

rahulpadalkaron Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

> Say you have a 2% chance of picking a unicorn and being a member of the founding team. That 2% is honestly way too high for most people, and perhaps a bit low for others, but a good median to anchor on. $10M * 2% = $200K. And realistically you’re only going to get that this tranche of equity every 3-4 years at most, so that’s a risk-adjusted value of $50–$66k.

I didn't understand this math, 2% is the chance of it being a unicorn. 1% of 1B is 10M is the amount you might get if the startup sells for 1B. what does 2% of 10M signify?

rahulpadalkaron Nobody cares about your clean code

This should have been titled "Users don't care about your clean code". But it's 2021, click-bait is necessary.

Also this is the difference between a indiehacker and a SDE. Pieter is a indiehacker not a SDE.

rahulpadalkaron Comparing Svelte and React

rahulpadalkaron Why is the UK so poor compared to the US?

UK was rich because of the fortunes "looted" (along with the term) from its foreign colonies. No doubt they are getting poorer since they no longer have their colonies to milk.

rahulpadalkaron Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code

This is insane!!!!!!!!!!!

rahulpadalkaron Change your MAC address with a shell script (2019)

Isn't it illegal to change mac address?

rahulpadalkaron Context switching costs more than we give it credit for

Listening to songs that i know lyrics of are far more intrusive than the ones that i am not familiar with our are completely new.

I generally listen to lofi music while coding. Increases my focus for some reason.

rahulpadalkaron Who Americans spend their time with, by age

Is it just me or are the line colors in the chart way to similar to distinguish?

rahulpadalkaron Show HN: BeautifulCode, generate beautiful images of your source code

yep, i started it as a project to learn Svelte.

rahulpadalkaron P.L. Deshpande

The OG standup comedian.

rahulpadalkaron Laid Off, Now What?

nice username.

rahulpadalkaron Show HN: Sheddit, free and open source alternative to later for Reddit

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