| Tip 20 | Mind Reader |
I used to work with this guy named Rao. Rao was from a state in southern India called Andhra Pradesh, but he was located in the United States and worked onsite with us. Rao was the kind of guy who could code anything you asked him to code. If you needed low-level system programming done, he was the guy to ask. If you needed high-level application programming, he could do pretty much anything you asked him to do.
However, what made Rao truly remarkable was what he did before you asked him. He had this uncanny ability to predict what you were going to ask him to do and do it before you thought of it. It was like magic. I believe I even accused him of playing tricks on me at one point, but there’s no way it could have been a ...
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