Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784230

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Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: depends

Technologies: TypeScript/Node, Ruby/Rails, Python, Frontend (JS/Dom, React, Tailwind, ...), Microservices & Distributed Systems, REST APIs, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Redis, Postgres/MySQL, Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Splunk, Kubernetes/Docker, Ansible.

Website: https://hadid.dev

Résumé/CV: https://hadid.dev/resume/

GitHub: https://github.com/mhadidg

Email: career+hn @ [my website domain]

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Hi! I'm a backend-leaning fullstack engineer with strong infra/DevOps experience. I have 8 YOE with a mix of enterprise and startup; 3+ YOE working remotely in a globally distributed team. Looking for a backend or fullstack role with product thinking.

Early in my career, I led the technical side of a workflow automation project at Earthlink - a big local enterprise. Later, I contributed 3+ years to Automattic (US) - the company behind WordPress. I've built and maintained time-sensitive, high-throughput services processing millions of ops daily.

While I'm a technical guy by title, I've worked very closely with business and have decent product development experience.

I do my best on high autonomy, ambiguity, and solving hard problems. I know how to turn vague business needs into systems - I've been doing that for most of my career.

Haidt's metaphor is the rider and the elephant: the elephant (intuition) leans, and the rider (reasoning) invents the justification afterward and then defends it like a lawyer, not a truth-seeker.

Intelligence doesn't fix this - it just makes people better at coming up with hard-to-defeat arguments; that explains why smart people disagree all the time.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712185

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702289

Points: 6

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I'm talking about 10s of repos flagged in a few hours. I don't think the volume would be that big for an expensive review.

That being said, they do take action if you report the repo. So I'm guessing good users are doing the heavy lifting here with reporting. I don't believe GitHub is taking enough proactive measures, or maybe they do, but it's not working well, obviously.

https://hadid.dev/posts/github-trends/#growth-based-approach

I've seen so many forms of malware repos working on a GitHub trends newsletter [1], mostly about crypto, NFTs, KMS, and similar stuff.

In the first runs of the project, I was so surprised by tens of malware repos that looked like trending repos. A lot of them share some common traits that made filtering feasible:

- Made by a fresh GitHub user - many created in the past few days.

- The average creation date of Stargazers accounts is very close to the repo creation date. If you take the mean time diff, those bad repos get exposed.

I reported 10s of malware repos, but then I gave up as I felt GitHub was not really doing enough to fight back. I was like... these guys don't seem to care, why should I?

God knows how many people have been abused by these malware repos on GitHub.

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[1] https://github.com/mhadidg/gh-trends

Everyone would be screaming the moment that happens. No, Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496179

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490354

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It's already been 14+ years since you wrote the book; I wonder if a second edition is something you have in mind, or at least on your consideration list

Even if they genuinely believe what they’re saying, their perspective is still fundamentally biased and should always be taken with a healthy grain of salt.

Classic Goodhart’s Law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.