28 September 2011
A few months ago, I invested in a Prestige portable hard drive from IT dot COM, a retailer based in Margao, Goa, India. However, my satisfaction was short-lived; the drive began malfunctioning out of the blue. The drive’s indicator light would blink endlessly, and it failed to get recognized on multiple systems I tried it on.
I happened to be in Hyderabad when I first encountered this issue. To my astonishment, there wasn’t a single authorized service center in the entire twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. So, I waited until I returned to Goa and handed the problematic drive back to the retailer.
...18 September 2010
**Always Have a Single, Authoritative Source For Your Schema
** Everyone should know where the official schema resides, and have a frictionless experience in getting a fresh database setup. One should be able to walk up to a computer, get the latest from source control, build, and run a simple tool to setup the database (in many scenarios, the build process can even setup a database if none exists, so the process is one step shorter).
...2 April 2010
jordanlund 4 points 1 year ago[-]
Confession time…
I always get confused about which one is the slash and which one is the backslash.
I end up calling them “the one on the question mark” and “the one not on the question mark”.
Or / and \ for short.
zem 45 points 1 year ago[-]
Here’s a simple trick:
\ leans back
/ leans forward
grantrules 27 points 1 year ago[-]
_ is a slash that got tired and lay down.
...22 March 2010
Scrum is an agile development model that allows teams to deliver software products faster and with higher quality. Scrum involves breaking down the product into small and manageable pieces called backlog items, and working on them in short iterations called sprints. Here are the 8 steps you need to follow to implement Scrum successfully:
Step 1: Prepare your product backlog. The product backlog is a list of features and requirements that you want to include in your product. You need to involve the stakeholders, such as the customers, users, or managers, to create and prioritize this list. You also need to get the approval of the product owner, who is the person responsible for defining and managing the product vision and goals.
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6 March 2010
I have been commuting from Margao to Bambolim for work every day, and I have to say that the road construction that is going on near Verna is driving me crazy. It has been four days since they started digging up the road, but I don’t see any progress. What’s worse, they seem to have no regard for the peak hours of traffic on that route. They start their work at around 9:30 am and continue till late evening, causing massive jams and delays for everyone.
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