mnomitch (u/mnomitch)

mnomitch commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) · Posted by u/whoishiring

mnomitch · a month ago

Cloudflare | New York City, Austin, London, Lisbon, San Francisco, Seattle | Full Time

I’m hiring for some (IMHO) really fun product manager roles on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform (workers.cloudflare.com) - Workers Runtime - Set vision for our V8 isolate based runtime that lets people deploy JS, TS, Rust and Python to the globe in seconds with great dev ex. - Containers - Help build our new containers platform into the best place for both agent Sandboxes and stateless global apps. - AI Agents - Define what Agents on Cloudflare look like: from our AgentsSDK, to Sandboxes, to MCP Servers, “Code Mode” (see our blog) and more.

We’re a really technical group, and tend to like product managers that can straddle the line between engineer and PM. You should be able to set high-level vision, understand architectural constraints, and be technical enough to really deeply understand our users (developers).

email: <my-hn-username>@cloudflare.com - Please add “HackerNews” to the subject line.

mnomitch commented on Why Kubernetes is so complex cloudplane.org/blog/why-k... · Posted by u/jgillich

Cwizard · 3 years ago

Could someone explain to me in what why Kubernetes is complex and what alternatives are simpler? I’ve worked on non-k8s systems before and in my experience they all hang together with custom bash/python code which although line-for-line is ‘simpler’ it makes it harder to onboard new people and is less robust (excluding very simple deployments)

K8s is very modular in my experience so if you don’t need something you can easily ignore it and not pay a complexity cost. Nomad does not seem much simpler to me (especially because you basically have to pair it with Consul and Vault)

I am genuinely curious.

mnomitch · 3 years ago

Nomad does not seem much simpler to me (especially because you basically have to pair it with Consul and Vault)

Hi, Nomad PM here - We've gotten this feedback a lot and have been taking steps to respond to it. We added simple service discovery in Nomad 1.3 and health checks and load balancing shortly after. So you shouldn't need Consul until you want a full service mesh. And then in Nomad 1.4, which just launched, we added Nomad Variables. These can be used for basic secrets & config management. It isn't a full on replacement for Vault, but it should give people the basic functionality to get off the ground.

So going forward we won't have a de factor dependency on these other tools, and hopefully we can live up to the promise of simplicity.

mnomitch commented on Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting rankedvote.co... · Posted by u/tadmilbourn

mkoubaa · 3 years ago

This is quite reductive and ridiculous, people don't measure their difference from a candidate on a single axis and vote for the person with the smallest distance.

mnomitch · 3 years ago

I am generally an RCV fan, but I think you're writing off this critique a bit too quickly.

Even with multiple axes the critique is still correct right? And I think (far from an expert) that there's decent evidence to support hotelling's law and median voter theorem.

mnomitch commented on Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting rankedvote.co... · Posted by u/tadmilbourn

skybrian · 3 years ago

Did you ever try star voting?

mnomitch · 3 years ago

No, but only because I have been too lazy to update the code.

If I had more free time, I would probably add Star and Approval and then try to use Star with my group of friends. Maybe OP can save me the trouble by adding to his site ! :)

mnomitch commented on Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting rankedvote.co... · Posted by u/tadmilbourn

clolege · 3 years ago

Isn't Borda Count just Score voting where you enforce that voters can't give two options the same amount of support?

I would be curious why people would prefer Borda over Score if so.

mnomitch · 3 years ago

I'm not super familiar with score, but the advantage in this scenario is that voters call all input the same way and get borda + IRV + a potential condorcet winner.

If you allowed same scores then you can't do both simultaneously and/or the UX gets really funky.

mnomitch commented on Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting rankedvote.co... · Posted by u/tadmilbourn

tadmilbourn · 3 years ago

Thanks! And I hadn't come across Poller before. Pretty cool. FYI - RankedVote actually uses a type of Borda Count as its tiebreaking mechanism. Not quite what you're saying, but is better than picking a name out of a hat!

You bring up a lot of interesting points on what people feel happy with after voting. None of these systems is perfect. Each can be picked apart in various ways. That's why I tend to frame things in terms of "does this move things forward from the status quo?"

mnomitch · 3 years ago

Oh interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what is the tie breaking mechanism?

And totally agreed on the framing. Also, prepare yourself for the feedback of "we should have a runoff election with the top two" and then people completely rejecting the concept that you've already done the runoff. :)

mnomitch commented on Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting rankedvote.co... · Posted by u/tadmilbourn

mnomitch · 3 years ago

Hi! I actually made a similar site for my own purposes - https://poller.io - and I've been using it with friends for a while.

One interesting finding. I was expecting that Instant Runoff would be the method we all preferred. I also included plurality winner, Borda Count and the Condorcet winner (if there was one) in the list of results. After using this with friends for decisions, I realized that a lot of choices that did very well in borda count were getting eliminated in the IRV. If you have a lot of options in the poll, there's a good chance that an option that will make the majority happy gets eliminated because it has very few first place votes. Academically, I knew this was a possibility, but in practice it happened a ton. This made us change to borda counts as our method of choice for things (and then we promised to not game the system). But... if there's a Condorcet Winner, we always go with that.

I also thought that having a borda count as the method of eliminating the "last place" choice in each IRV round would be kinda nifty. This still lets people game the system though, and is kind of a gross hack.

Just letting you know our experience in case it is helpful for future options on polls! Good luck!

mnomitch commented on Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? · Posted by u/leobg

mnomitch · 4 years ago

I made a website for using ranked choice voting for online polls - https://poller.io - It has been nice to be able to do a quick Ranked Choice Instant Runoff Vote or Borda Count when deciding on things with friends (i.e. where to go on a trip, or which board game to play).

I "marketed" it by posting on HN and Reddit, but that's about it.

mnomitch commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022) · Posted by u/whoishiring

mnomitch · 4 years ago

HashiCorp Nomad | Full time | Remote

https://www.nomadproject.io

Want to work on an alternative to Kubernetes made by the creators of Terraform, Consul, Vagrant, and Vault? Come work on Nomad at HashiCorp! Our team builds and maintains a highly-scalable, flexible distributed cluster orchestrator. Nomad helps teams run varied workloads including containers, VMs, and raw binaries. Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Roblox, Pandora, and many other large organizations run Nomad in production today.

We are currently looking for both backend and frontend engineers interested in solving hard problems in the DevOps space, tackling interesting distributed systems challenges, and/or working on open source software.

Our stack: Golang & Ember (experience in either is nice to have, but not a hard requirement)

Feel free to reach out to me, a PM on the team, at mnomitch (at) hashicorp (dot) com if you are interested!

mnomitch commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) · Posted by u/whoishiring

mnomitch · 4 years ago

HashiCorp Nomad | Full time | Remote

https://www.nomadproject.io

Want to work on an alternative to Kubernetes made by the creators of Terraform, Consul, Vagrant, and Vault? Come work on Nomad at HashiCorp! Our team builds and maintains a highly-scalable, flexible distributed cluster orchestrator. Nomad helps teams run varied workloads including containers, VMs, and raw binaries. Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Roblox, Pandora, and many other large organizations run Nomad in production today.

We are currently looking for both backend and frontend engineers interested in solving hard problems in the DevOps space, tackling interesting distributed systems challenges, and/or working on open source software.

Our stack: Golang & Ember (experience in either is nice to have, but not a hard requirement)

Here’s a link to a full job posting: https://www.hashicorp.com/job/3990643

Also, feel free to reach out to me, a PM on the team, at mnomitch (at) hashicorp (dot) com