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Not sure about English but I did learn tons of French wine pronunciation thanks to him, notably pouilly-fuisse and gevrey-chambertin which I was struggling

Can I ask what medicine are you taking right now? I have exactly the same problem as you, the thought that my healthy heart is going to stop any moment is crazy

Could you share how you cope with all these findings and experiences, psychologically? I have anxiety that my heart is going to stop any moment (even after stress test came back ok…

Designing Data Intensive Applications, changed my career

Interesting, I work in the same company but have never heard of it

and that's one of the many reasons why project got delayed, manager gets optimistic and consider himself a 0.5, only to realise halfway that he is overwhelmed by meetings, and his …

Ah yes the 0.5 dev, conjured up by the manager to push 4 devs work onto 3 realistic devs

I myself do not subscribe to this stereotype, I have seen both extremes in junior dev. Some ask nothing but figure it out themselves, some ask too much and figure out nothing, some…

That’s why distributed database allows you to set the read/write concern that trades off consistency with latency. Choice is yours, in the absence of a partition

Companies don't spend time thinking/rationalizing why they shouldn't raise current employees' salaries. They are simply forced to pay market rate for new hire, that's all, no one t…

Enough No and you will find yourself questioning why are your best people leaving, very often your best people are the one who cares and are pushing for better change. At the end y…

When commenting on colleague's work, or when arguing constructively, how often do you use "I think" in an attempt to appear less authoritarian/harsh, or conversely, more open minde…

A very common workplace problem, where the know-it-all manager feels like he needs to overrule decision due to years of experience in the company, or insert himself into all aspect…

apple dedicate its existence to building beautiful things and user experience, it makes painful work much more bearable, at the end of the day I'm just another consumer that wants …

I'm very interested in moving from IC to management, is this transition easier within the same company, or switching company. How did you make it?

I use IntelliJ, the forward/backward button on mx master 3s is extremely helpful navigating code

LMAO

fyi, he is also the son of current Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong