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My father had one up until very recently. He now has a Citroen Berlingo (I think it’s this model). Rural Portugal by the way.

Portugal also has a bit of the culture of working long hours. People joke when you leave at 6pm/7pm and ask “are you taking the afternoon off?”. We also have the “manager + 5 minut…

My son was born with TEF/EA (TOF/OA in the UK) and needed a 4 hour surgery when he was 2 days old. The days before the surgery and the following month while he was incubated were a…

What is wrong with me? I always think the other way around. I *know* that I’ll get into some rabbit holes along the way and stuff like that.

> What would be the worst thing that could happen if you did ask again? Would you get fired? It's about "reputation" and about what your peers think of you. I feel that how others …

I think I know of a particular situation that might have led him to give that piece of feedback. To be fair I think we're both to blame.

Thanks for this advice. I think this is very pragmatic and actionable.

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Yes :D it is. My "big picture" was not so big. It's just to get enough context to do my "mundane" work well. I forgot to say that I'm only a mid-level engineer. For instance, to gi…

Thanks! Good advice here.

I think you're onto something here. Yeah, Feynman is a good source of wisdom. He has other nuggets of wisdom I like (for instance, "You have no responsibility to live up to what ot…

> I'll do this many times throughout my day if I don't already know the answer. If you are feeling afraid to feel "dumb", I don't know exactly how to force it, but you need to have…

You're right here. I don't. And maybe my perception that everybody else seems to know everything that's going on around them is just biased by my own fears. I don't know...

Hi. I did well in school, but I don't do that well at work. Just recently, my manager told me I fail to see the big picture. School was easier: the path is laid out for us and we j…

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This is very interesting advice. Sometimes just the writing things down helps us clarify my thoughts (like before we post a question here or on SO).

Thanks, that makes sense. However, sometimes it looks like some of the best engineer's I've worked with can get work done even before technology gets popular enough to have courses…

Hi! Very often I seem to struggle to get anything done when I’m working on an unfamiliar subject, specially when I struggle with the documentation. This is not a rant about bad doc…

Thank you, this is a very useful answer. I will check your videos out for sure.

Interesting point of view, thanks.

Thanks. I found an article about it and it looks like a interesting read.

This is very interesting. I need to try your ideas. Thanks!

Only Kent Beck’s one, but honestly I might need to revisit it (I only vaguely remember how he approached the two examples on the book). If you have other suggestions of books you f…

Although I understand its mantra, I was never able to “drive the design” using TDD. To highlight my issues, let me share a recent failed experiment. I have been trying to create a …