Engineer when asked to provide T-shirt size/effort in person weeks/complexity estimate for vaguely defined high-level product requirements
Saw a drone light show for the first time on New Year's Day. Was the tech powering this inspired by the leprechaun display at the Quidditch World Cup?
Amarnath retweeted
I'm happy to see a lot more open skepticism about microservices in the last year. They're a bad match for most systems, but programmers (and especially programmers' career aspirations) love complexity.
#Nelson should just make a spin-off series called "The Adventures of Mahaali & Kili"
This has been happening to me all week! When you are one letter short and there are multiple valid candidates, it is just luck, no?
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I hope that in business school, they teach folks to respect engineering & engineers - what with software eating the world and all.
I like sending long texts, writing personal invites & thank you notes. I feel like a millennial with a Gen X head stuck in a Gen Z world.
Solo passengers are the unsung heroes of long-distance travel. Them offering to selflessly move is how many families are able to travel together & comfortably despite poor planning. I hope that these kind souls get to sit at their own seats in The Good Place at least.
There is a lot to miss about going to the office: Reliable collection of my parcels, free document printing among other things.
Q: How did the cyclist with a poor sense of navigation get good at solving the Sudoku?
A: By backtracking regularly
You may be a wily negotiator but you can never beat the salary hike that you got at your first job: Infinity (according to JavaScript, at least) percent!
I have noticed sometimes that our valuation of advice received is inversely proportional to our familiarity with the source. It goes: Family < Friends < Trusted Experts < Random Internet Person. Is this universal behaviour?
I differentiate the stoic workers from the attention seekers on Slack by their frequency of usage of the "Also send to channel" checkbox in threads #work
This was a fun read!
"How a 𝑷𝒂𝒊 𝑲𝒊𝒂 in School Became a Teacher to Inspire the Next Generation"
genxsingapore.com/?p=3057
"Commenting for better reach" is hands-down the most cringeworthy social norm that I have seen on LinkedIn so far.
Looking to get fitter over the next few months. So I turn to a friend, @praveen_s07, a trusted fitness expert, and ask him: “Will you be my Beedi Rayappan?” #SarpattaParambarai




