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Hamburg, Germany
Joined March 2009
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What most people get wrong about managing up (plus simple tips to get it right):
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The idea that AI will steal software engineering jobs is naive.
LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) produce remarkable results. They mimic language to write poetry, create videos, and write computer code.
It's that latter capability which has social media and the press all excited.
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Yuhhhuuu.. delivered my first #keynote at @STAREAST & yes, wearing this cute dress & pink shoes 👠. Can‘t express in words my happiness to see audience’s response of being so inspired & motivated.
Thnx @tariq_king for all the behind the scenes work to make it happen 😊
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I wrote about my journey of testing Machine learning based system. It's been a long way, finally published at
@InfoQ :)
infoq.com/articles/tester-ma…
Hope to motivate others by sharing my learnings, challenges and opportunities ☺️
@BenLinders @rahul_verma Thanks for the review.
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The Montreux Casino in Switzerland burnt to the ground during a Frank Zappa show. The incident is immortalized in Smoke on the Water. Deep Purple was attending the Zappa show. December 4, 1971.
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My manager once asked me how long it was going to take to implement a small thing, and I said “two weeks”.
“Two weeks?” he exclaimed. “Why is it going to take so long?”
“Well”, I said, “two weeks is my lower bound estimate for all dev work.”
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When you're going to job interviews, remember the one thing that matters the most:
- Your interviewer is a human being, and you're one too.
Build a damn human connection with them! That's what they'll retain from your interview.
This is a key tip I recommend you all👇
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if you maintain a brag document (jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/), what do you put in it? I'm thinking of making an updated template.
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Steve Jobs was undeniably a genius.
But Tim Cook took Apple from $153B to $3T over the last 11 years. (20x increase)
Here are 9 lessons from the underrated CEO:
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Fast alles läuft besser, wenn man es mal aussteckt. Auch Du! (Anne Lamott)
Wer viele Bäume fällen will, muss sich immer mal wieder Zeit nehmen, um das Sägeblatt zu schärfen. Hier ein paar Fragen zur Selbstreflektion. Schummeln ist erlaubt:
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A #speaker's happiness lies in audience satisfaction.
Thanks @seleniumconf for having me for my talk "Free your frontend client from backend cage". 😇
Really enjoyed this delightful experience & the great discussions.
#SeConf #AnotherMilestoneAchieved #happyMe
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Often when we think about "retention" in a team, we think: "We need to stop people from leaving."
Instead, more helpful is if we say to ourselves as leaders: "We need to give people a reason to stay."
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"programmer interrupted" the best data to date on the benefits of providing a quiet work environment for engineers bit.ly/1dMUtBV