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Very well summed up. In addition, same set of questions can also be asked to people who've recently left the organisation. I'd use the following criteria to filter ex employees: - …

Well written article > DON'T BE AFRAID TO DISMANTLE THE WRONG ABSTRACTION Couldn't agree more with the statement, though I don't completely agree with the author's suggestion to co…

While I completely agree with your _sentiments_ I think there is a conflation between choosing _the right tool_ for the job vs using 'too many things'. I shun the unnecessary - com…

Thank you for starting such an interesting thread. Going through all the comments a few days after the question was asked is very rewarding ! So many books marked as 'to read' :) M…

You, sir, seem to have a xkcd catalogued in your head much better than I do. Thank you sensei ! Well met indeed :)

Thank you for this - and the references to how you came across the concept. I was personally only recently introduced to anki [1] & [2] However, I tried it out but I couldn't end u…

Does xkcd even need attribution? I was sure most readers would recognise the art (if not the comic) :) Point taken and corrected (noob blogger mistakes!) Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback. It does have a short write up on things to do. I have a lot more opinions on that, but was trying to balance out the overall length of the post. Will try h…

Hopefully - that's what we're working on :)

This is quite the representative case between Infra teams (or PaaS or SRE - based on where you're located) and application teams. Being part of the platform team, I've been in the …

All my dotfiles are in a git repo. Whenever I'm doing a fresh install, I simply download all my most-used packages and rsync the dot files. I'm planning on investing some time and …

With all my heart, I agree with you; but I wished I shared some of your enthusiasm. I've been brought up with the saying, 'The sole purpose of education is to help a person think s…

(i) it's a very interesting point that you put forth. Yes, robots will compensate for the _working population_ ; However, I think the OP wants to direct the attention towards the e…

This, right here is the problem with our industry. Someone has a brain wave and asks a [set of] hardworking engineer(s) to 'make it happen yesterday'. Engineers toil away and bring…