I made the mistake of agreeing to undertaking that I would not use the trademarked brandname of one of my competitors' keyuwords in our Google ads bidding. Talking with a lawyer after the fact, I learnt that we can freely use the keywords but agreeing to the undertaking is a more serious and legally binding corporate promise. Now they are bidding on my brand names but we can't bid on them. So, I do agree Google search sucks, heh.

Why did you agree to this without it being mutual?

Possibly part of an agreement to avoid a lawsuit. I think Dropbox and Box had a similar arrangement, because their names are so similar and they do exactly the same things.

Kmart in Australia is pretty good to be fair. Cheap goods with good enough quality. I put them above Temu or Shein. For toys or pet accessories, they are unmatched in price anywhere else.

My house is full of kmart dog toys. I keep forgetting we got them there as they are good quality. It's a place you get everything, fairly cheap but good quality for the price. Notwithstanding TFA.

For stuff like cups, power boards, tooth brush holders, etc they are basically the best. The furniture is pretty garbage though and not really that cheap compared to something much better at ikea.

I use Temporal (https://temporal.io/)

We also use temporal, it’s pretty great. Their ui makes it easy to debug workflows too.

temporal has been pretty nice and feature rich compared to rabbitmq, DB, kafka.

I am using Kotlin with Quarkus for my healthtech startup (founded last year), mainly because it just works. JVM is a very optimised piece of software, and it can handle almost anything you throw at it. And I like writing Kotlin, which I think is more expressive compared to something like Go, while being less verbose than Java. Contrary to popular opinion of not touching ORMs, I use Hibernate, and it might be the best ORM available. None other ORM library comes close - but that's just my opinion. Sure, I can handwrite SQL queries, but as a startup, my data schema is always changing and I don't want to spend my time updating those raw queries when Hibernate can do it for me. I use it at my day job as well.

Why did you decide against Panache? Im experimenting with moving my booking system from node to Java and at crossroads between spring and quarkus. So far quarkus CLI tooling and ability to generate REST client code is incredibly productive and pleasant, but panache feels a bit different from spring data that Im used to.

What does heterogeneous mean here?

Multiple types of storage at the same time. For example, two different types of SSD, or combinations of SSD and DRAM.

Trying to stick with C++, mainly because it's everywhere. But jeez, it's a really huge language with seemingly endless amount of stuffs to learn.

It's intermittent here / Singapore.

For me is the opposite. I make a list of things I have done for the day. You know you need to push harder if your list has less than 5 items by lunch time.

A hack I found that's useful for me is to keep a daily log. I list down what I have achieved in a day no matter how small they may be, e.g adding contents to company wiki, clearing a jira ticket, reading an interesting article, etc. I keep the log in a simple text file for each day, in a repo on github. I always find the urge to add something to this log whenever I get back home.

I would buy a cheap condo here in Singapore. Rent it out and become a digital nomad.