Rahul Sharma

Turns coffee into code, Engineering @ Google, prev: Gojek, Thoughtworks

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@GergelyOrosz Slack has been one of the most formidable chat solutions I’ve used across most orgs.

Least formidable is Lark (ByteDance).

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@GergelyOrosz As a listener, my experience has been impacted in the recent months too.

Audio/Video podcasts get garbled randomly when I’m listening while walking or driving which is rather annoying.

[The Pragmatic Engineer @Pragmatic_Eng]

At Facebook, nobody signed up for @KentBeck's TDD class. Here’s what Kent, who wrote the book on TDD, learnt from the experience:

“There was a hackathon at Facebook. I thought, I'll give a TDD class because, after all, I wrote the book and they clearly need it. I could see because nobody was doing it, there were very few unit tests at that time, which just shocked me. How can this be?

So I said, I put on the signup sheet, TDD class from me, from ‘the Kent Beck’. Just before my class was one on Argentinian Tango. And just after my class was one on advanced Excel techniques.

When the time came for the classes, the Argentinian Tango class was full, the advanced Excel class was full, and no one, not one, not even like a pity signup, zero people had signed up for my TDD class. So these engineers clearly felt like they had it already dialed in and they didn't need anything from this old guy.

So I decided, you know what? I'm just going to forget everything that I think I know about software engineering and I'm going to try to do things. I'm just sort of monkey see, monkey do. I'm going to copy what I see people doing and get feedback and see if I can learn to develop in this different style quickly enough.

Can I relearn software engineering fast enough not to get fired? And I ended up staying there for seven years.”

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dear @narendramodi and @nitin_gadkari, I urge you to heed science, reason, and the concerns of ordinary Indians.

Here, I explain why India’s E20 policy hurts vehicle owners, water resource, and the environment; and helps the politician-middleman, the sugar, and the liquor lobby:

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@kelseyhightower Democracy

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@aarengee That’s a proper good show mate, can’t wait for the next season

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@ragunathjawahar All good things take time :)

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@amuldotexe Really sorry to hear about it, take care!

[Gojek Design @gojekdesign]

🥇🚀🇮🇩🫡

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@imGurpreetSK Starting any android component requires IPC which can be slow based on system state, minimising that could lead to perf gains (slow wait times) specially on low/mid end devices.

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@r_adiit Governance is important I guess, relying on discipline rarely scales up specially in larger teams.

[Tanay Pratap @tanaypratap]

10 things I know in my early 30s

I wish I knew when I was 18: 🧵

[David Morris @wdmorrisjr]

10 things your parents never told you about work (but probably should have):

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Youth that pick jobs which “teach them more” versus “pays them well” often do well in the long run.

Best jobs are those that achieve both.

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@ragunathjawahar Because tomorrow never comes 😅

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@sheikh_aasif01 Congratulations 🎉

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@madona_syombua 👋

[Rahul Chowdhury @chowdhuryrahul]

I turn 29 today. 🎂

Here's what I've learned so far:

1. Don't stop learning new things.

Learning shouldn't be limited to school/college. It's a life-long journey.

The more you learn, the more doors you can unlock in life.

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@chowdhuryrahul Happy birthday! 🍻

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@madona_syombua It’s breaking on Samsung