Nope, that would be me.
Always welcome for a drink when you are in Osaka/Tokyo.
Readit Newsm_fam_wa_k commented on GitLab Database Incident – Live Report docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/sbuttgereit
m_fam_wa_k commented on GitLab Database Incident – Live Report docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/sbuttgereit
Good lesson on making command prompts on machines always tell you exactly what machine you're working on.
I like to color code my terminal. Production systems are always red. Dev are blue/green. Staging is yellow.
I'll take liberty to correct your perspective: A demonetization move that directly affected livelihood of billion Indians, with a possibility of large-scale riots, but ended with only 100 deaths. I don't see how it cannot be termed a success. Can you think of any major move that directly affected the entire country but did not end in large scale riots? If you need to understand what a "hasty decision" means take a look at the Partition of India, where only a small fraction of the entire populace was displaced but ended up causing up almost 2 million deaths by some estimates.
Let's compare that figure to say fatal accidents in Kathipara Junction, Chennai. It used to average more than one a day. OP is cherry picking.
Okay I'm getting down-voted for complimenting this as a great deck (?), so let me expand on why I think it is:
- Slide 6 "Fight hero culture", this is a real problem in many organizations where I have worked, I have written about this before: http://www.alphadevx.com/a/423-Hero-driven-development
- Slide 10 "Make it safe to learn", we all know that a blame culture still plays a big part of many organizations, and we all need to work against that to enable honest discussions about failures.
- Slide 13 "Empathy is a core value", if you cannot understand why the other guy is pissed off about some issue, you will struggle to care about fixing it. Put yourself in someone else shoes for a change.
- Slide 18 "Build a culture of shipping", focus on deliveries not dates.
- Slide 20 "Do the simplest thing that could work", most engineers will jump to the complex solutions first (myself included), learn to test the obvious first.
- Slide 21 "Beware the illusion of agreement and be explicit", just because someone is silent in a discussion does not mean that they are in agreement. They might work against the consensus as soon as the discussion is over.
"Thank you" and "Great work" are perfectly valid responses. These jackasses that down vote should be penalised. That would be karma.
m_fam_wa_k commented on Churchill's Subterranean WWII Bunker in London atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/pepys
I've taken this tour, the amount of preservation and history down there is amazing.
One of the most interesting things was a room that was explained to everyone as "Churchill's private bathroom". It was a small closet and the door even had a "FREE/ENGAGED" lock on it, taken from an airplane lavatory. You wouldn't dare enter or knock on a bathroom door that said ENGAGED, especially one belonging to Churchill would you?
http://www.timetravelturtle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/L...
Behind the door was Churchill's SIGSALY terminal, a private encrypted voice line between the UK and terminals at the US Pentagon and White House.
http://www.timetravelturtle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/L...
SIGSALY was the descendent of the Bell Labs "Voder", which was the first attempt at electronically synthesized human speech.
https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-fi...
1939 Voder Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0
The Voder eventually gave birth to the Vocoder and other developments beyond.
> You wouldn't dare enter or knock on a bathroom door that said ENGAGED, especially one belonging to Churchill would you?
Eh...I would. A huge part of my family was wiped out because of Churchill's machinations leading to the Bengal famine. My grandfather was able to move south with the sacrifice of his siblings.
Churchill's actions put him in the grey area for me.
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