Chris Sivanich csivanich

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

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Terminological Note

"OpenPGP" refers to the OpenPGP protocol, in much the same way that HTML refers to the protocol that specifies how to write a web page. "GnuPG", "SequoiaPGP", "OpenPGP.js", and others are implementations of the OpenPGP protocol in the same way that Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, and Microsoft Edge refer to software packages that process HTML data.

Who am I?

Requiring ICs to demonstrate business impact for promotion is, at best, imprecise, and, at worst, disingenuous. Instead, two more valuable and precise measures are:

measuring project management & technical skills (can the engineer effectively/efficiently complete large, unscoped projects?), and
evaluating the engineer's contribution to the team's roadmap (can the engineer identify high-value projects within the team's responsibilities? do they push their team to evaluate the prioritization of their work?)

Engineering ICs cannot plan to affect business impact in a foolproof way -- even if an IC had the means to evaluate the impact of their project, it's rare that they are empowered to select projects. Impactful projects are driven partly by luck: whether the project was timely/actually important, whether you get assigned that project, and whether you are given the resources to make the project successful. The influence of luck on impact often pushes engineers to do short-term/unrisky work, when long-te

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

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 # Download latest archlinux bootstrap package, see https://www.archlinux.org/download/
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 # Make sure you'll have enough entropy for pacman-key later.
 apt-get install haveged
 # Install the arch bootstrap image in a tmpfs.
 mount -t tmpfs none /mnt
 cd /mnt
 tar xvf ~/archlinux-bootstrap-*-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components=1

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