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 recognised 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 authorised service centre 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.

**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).

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.

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.