Picking a favorite condiment

What is your favorite condiment asked a coworker? I would probably pick Currygewürzketchup.

I have discovered that on my second trip to Berlin a decade ago. After landing at the old Berlin airport I headed up outside for some fresh air and encountered a food truck. Being a little hungry I headed in that direction,, hoping I could discover a bit of the local cuisine. It was around 3pm which is an unusual time to pick up food in France. Unless your a young hipster or are clueless of France strict eating schedule, we observe a strict timing 7am, 1pm, 4pm, 8pm without snack in between.  Being in the vicinity of an airport it smelled like a tourist trap and my expectations were not that high.

As approached I noticed the waiting line was entirely composed of people in their very strict business attires (fancy suits for men, skirt suite and blouse for women with brief cases). It set me on alert, their outfits indicate they are most probably well educated and those people would probably not fall for the usual tourist crap food. I thus entered the line and the truck chef, in a perfect English, recommended me their classic: the currywurst.  It is pork sausage with a spiced tomato paste topped with curry powder.   It has been a revelation, and a few days later I went to walk more than one hour to head to the best currywurst place in Berlin since I needed my fix.

What does senior means in a job title?

Copy pasted from a writing I have done in a chat. I haven't proofread the text.

our American colleagues have Craigs List a website with a minimalist layout on which people can post announces.  France has a similar thing (though the layout has really improved over time): Le BonCoin.  Literally it means "the good corner" , a corner meaning a good place to be at.  So think about it as an online garage sale on which you can find anything

I had just started at the Wikimedia Foundation, the grand pinnacle of my existence and went to intend an open source conference in Paris with a few acquaintances from my home city (read: geeks drinking beers in an underground coffee). I have just transitioned from a telco career to a "software developer", so even if my few months tenure at the WMF was enough to impressionate anyone, I kept a rather low profile since I was really just a newbie (and still am).

So the freshman developer I was got introduced to a way more senior person. Well technically we are the exact same age, but he had an actual degree in computer science and had done all of his career in a rather niche field that nobody really want to have to ever have to deal with. He was a senior DBA.

So I am here working for that tiny little non profit has a junior dev facing one THE dba of one of the biggest website in the France ecosystem.  I could not say much but I could definitely learn a bunch of lessons.

How I knew he was a senior DBA? He gave me his visit card and upon reading his fancy title I asked back: "why are you senior?"

To which he replied: "you had a computer since childhood, you have done a ton of mistakes, probably lost your disk data entirely, had a computer wiped in production, deployed on a late friday and ended up your work week at 6 am on a Saturday as a result"

Me: "oh sure that is experience"

Him: "being a senior his having done enough mistakes that it is unlikely you will do mistake again"