Hacker News: begueradj

New comment by begueradj in "The three year myth"

begueradj — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:00:56 +0000

> Your performance review is solid, of course, your deliverables unimpeachable, but something begins to feel increasingly off. Your colleagues are in more meetings, but your task list only grows longer. Your progress on said project is appreciated by your boss and team, maybe even your boss' boss, but never really recognized.

Managers sabotage talented employees: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/what-drives-ma...

Managers Sabotage Talented Employees (2025)

begueradj — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:42:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/what-drives-managers-to-sabotage-talented-employees

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945729

Points: 1

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Red teamers arrested conducting a penetration test

begueradj — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:03:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcast/red-teamers-arrested-conducting-a-penetration-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931728

Points: 2

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New comment by begueradj in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

begueradj — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:46:43 +0000

Not all wolves work in packs.

Hint: think of the widespread expression used in terrorism debates: "Lone wolf". It's a self radicalized/motivated individual acting independently and alone.

New comment by begueradj in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

begueradj — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:43:36 +0000

> i have been seen wolves accomplishing amazing feats and being sidelined for not being team players by mediocre leadership because the leadership did not get recognition.

That's the norm across all industries.

New comment by begueradj in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

begueradj — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:53:37 +0000

My whole comment refers to the "Propaganda" book by Edward Bernays.

New comment by begueradj in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

begueradj — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:19:24 +0000

Since the Covid theater, Stoicism is everywhere: that's why I don't read about it anymore because wherever the mass and Pavlov dogs head, the truth is elsewhere.

New comment by begueradj in "Eat Real Food"

begueradj — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:32:24 +0000

They also received financial aid depending on the land surface they have (at least in Europe)

Merry Christmas Day Have a MongoDB Security Incident

begueradj — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:20:21 +0000

Article URL: https://doublepulsar.com/merry-christmas-day-have-a-mongodb-security-incident-9537f54289eb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531159

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by begueradj in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

begueradj — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:37:02 +0000

>Sugar Papers Reveal Industry Role in Shifting National Heart Disease Focus to Saturated Fat

But sugar-sweetened foods contain saturated fat ... so ?

New comment by begueradj in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

begueradj — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:48:07 +0000

> The article (or the survey it's based on) sounds extremely misguided though

Unfortunately the entire Internet is bloated with such extremely misguided jokes. Here is another extremely misguided joke:

"We have a fundamental problem in the way we develop software. A large percentage of software is created by people who were never trained on the basics of security. " [1]

[1]: https://buildingacareerinsecurity.com/why-developers-dont-kn...

New comment by begueradj in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

begueradj — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:19:17 +0000

You must be a developer only :)

https://www.securecodewarrior.com/press-releases/secure-code...

New comment by begueradj in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

begueradj — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:16:08 +0000

Both here and on the source post there is a typo in the title (Vietnam instead of Vienam).

New comment by begueradj in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

begueradj — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:10:56 +0000

>Gmail isn’t even the worst offender, it’s just a more popular one. The Tesla and Crypto.com apps are around 1 GB each.

One reason is those are typically apps which need to be heavily secured. So behind the seemingly "simple" user interface and functionalities, there's so much security related code to ensure their "safety".

More importantly, it's difficult to code without dependencies.

New comment by begueradj in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

begueradj — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:35:55 +0000

> if you are demonstrating performance at your boss's level, that's evidence/proof that a promotion is warranted.

It can not be farther from the truth.

The best way to stay in the bottom is to work hard, to focus on work so that others have time to focus on advertising themselves, take credit of your good work and backstab you for everything else, befriend and lick the shoes strategically -even develop bed skills, for some- while you isolate yourself by sweating and believing everyone will understand or care about how you optimized that for loop.

New comment by begueradj in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

begueradj — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:18:11 +0000

When you sit in a café, even when you do nothing as the author said, you are still not alone because you are visually (looking at her, for example) and audibly (listening to them, for example) active. Like in any other public space, you are passively interacting with others, hence you are not "sitting alone".

New comment by begueradj in "I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)"

begueradj — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:20:25 +0000

More contributions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19921386

New comment by begueradj in "Cold-blooded software (2023)"

begueradj — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:41:47 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38793206

New comment by begueradj in "Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo"

begueradj — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:47:37 +0000

Third party options (Disqus, for example)

New comment by begueradj in "Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo"

begueradj — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:40:30 +0000

The posts looks pretty smooth to read.

You list all the links to posts on the landing page: what if you have 1000, 2000 posts ? Have you thought of paginating them ?