Asfand Qazi

Writer. Engineer. Lazy.

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Big up the @CostaCoffee. Whenever I have problems collecting points on the app, they always help me out.

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@CostaCoffee Kudos for the swift resolution🙏

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@CostaCoffee hey, how comes I can't scan the QR code from your machines into your app any more? I hold the QR code in the view port just like the app tells me to, and it doesn't do anything. I've missed so many beans and free coffees, feels a little unfair...

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@ibuildthecloud @adriandozsa Ruby

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Woman Paralyzed After Chiropractor Visit: https://t.co/DeJf9AUWq0

This is what the pseudoscience of chiropracty can do to you... Keep away!

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English... Why you so weird?

Floating your boat and getting your goat are valid expressions with opposite meanings.

WHY?!!

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Why do I keep humming the old Crystal Maze theme to myself?

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Every offshoring failure is due to treating offshore staff as resources and thus trying to cut costs by hiring the cheapest.

The best reason to hire offshore is to search for the best talent globally.

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My little girl just told me she'd like to go to America so she can see the big green lady with the ice cream

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It just hit me... I think the concept of duck typing was inspired by the witch trial scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"...

https://t.co/F3YlhHwE4X

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@PeteWalen People always forget that - it was an amazing achievement. Shame someone else had plans to rain on his parade though...

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How can we expect our engineers to deliver results is we haven't properly defined them first?

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If you're following the 12 factor methodology (which you usually should be) and configuring your app with environment variables, validate them at application start.

It sucks to find out an environment variable is wrongly formatted when someone tries to use your service.

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@SPACEdotcom They knew...

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Chancellor be like:
"We need to rescue the economy and help regular people out. Let's let bankers make more money."

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"DevOps was administrators refusing their primary purpose." - some dude on LinkedIn

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People who think you should have to multitask in the workplace need to try riding a bike while doing a crossword and then doing them both separately. What gets you further with less danger?

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Accurate

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Do you know why the tortoise beat the hare in the race?

The tortoise didn't have parallel workstreams. It had one focused task to work on whereas context switching overhead killed the hare's productivity.

#Productivity #Leadership

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I have a love/hate relationship with tests. When they're there, I hate maintaining them. When they're not there, I miss them.

I think I'm in a toxic relationship with testing.

#SoftwareEngineering #TDD #TestDrivenDevelopment