ThePadawan

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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Devil's confused advocate here - depending on the age of the candidate, that might have been intended to be a "fun fact" sort of addition? As in, it might have also read "Japanese calligraphy". Gives the HR person t
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> They gave up when they realized that requiring people to reregister their cars after moving was a huge, pointless hassle [...] I understand why this hasn't caught on here in Switzerland /j
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Sorry, "arbitrary to the observer" :). (I can hear my old distributed algorithms prof shouting at me even after years after graduating)
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
(I agree, but still let me rant a bit) Well, some of them do. Unless the genius who designed your kitchen put the fridge directly next to the dishwasher, whose job it is to keep hot steam inside for a long time. Yeah, don't put the box
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> Everything sold in last fifteen years is A class or better for efficiency. In case you are unaware: The European efficiency rating system is in fact percentile-based on some fictional reference appliance which is adjusted every few yea
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Thank you for the affirmation in that. I've had to come to the same conclusion recently and am better off for it, as you say.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I read your "vodoo magic in a programming language" to mean "behind the scenes in the implementation of the programming language", not "for a programmer to understand while using the programming language".
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> It is shocking how much vodoo magic there is in a programming language marketed as "easy to learn and use". But that's exactly what that expression means? A car with an automatic transmission is "easy to learn and u
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Makes me wonder if there is a calculable "annoyance" score for license plates. I imagine single plates like that would already be defeated by calling in "Black Dodge, really annoying license plate that's all ones, Ls and
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I've always felt that besides all the jokes about German efficiency and precision, German license plates actually have lots of cool and helpful features: They use a font intentionally designed to make simple alterations such as F->E
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
As sibling points out: Don't authorize the script, authorize whoever is executing the script.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Also do the opposite of the opposite. If you need to fire someone, it's appropriate to use a somber tone to prepare the other party. I was recently let go as basically agenda point 3 out of 4 during my normal weekly one-on-one with my
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
After reading through this for the missing negation - I love them for this! (I worked with managers who would never use agendas. Leaves them more room to filibuster when it becomes clear they don't understand what's going on.)
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Write code? No seriously, this was just a body leasing shop where I ended up working for a bank. So I sat around a lot and sometimes committed code for a CRUD C#/Angular web app.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Reminds me of one of the best technical interviews I had. This was for a C# position, and my future boss did this top-down approach with questions about Entity Framework. How do you write a query? What happens when you run that code (lazily
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I personally would prefer my exporter to focus on precision, not distance. So clearly, it wouldn't be "Asparagus", it would be "Beef" (as in Kobe).
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I think you're underestimating how psychopathic CEOs are. They might tell someone below them "we need Linux VMs, stat!" the same way they might say "We need to move everything onto the blockchain!", all depending on
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> But, how is having PRs open since 2019 a positive indication, and a productive one at that? Simply because I looked at some other tools recently and their PR backlog was simply a graveyard. A 3 year backlog seems really good to me in c
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I'm (positively) amazed at the number of open PRs on Godot's Github [0]. I'm used to those sorts of numbers for open issues without ongoing fixes - but the number of issues is actually only 5x the number of PRs. That seems i
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I'm still split on which category Adobe (Macromedia) Dreamweaver falls into.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> I think it is a universal experience. That's why you're (presumably) a programmer and not an illustrator. > Most people naturally choose to focus on things they are relatively good at, instead of keep banging their heads o
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I've worked on tools that were slightly misnamed after 6 months, and completely misnamed after 2 years. At that point they were also usually just nearly useless due to feature bloat and/or lack of scalability, so deprecated or rep
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I find it really weird that this isn't a universal experience. I've been coding for 15 years and could not imagine myself in your classmate's place - but I feel exactly the same while learning to draw. I try to draw a somew
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Terrific answer! No idea which way you're arguing though! ;)
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
It's my understanding that a lot of early design decision like HTTP verbs happened due to the much wider spread of proxies.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> Whimsical project names fall within a well-understood and used convention. Boy, I wish! I 100% second TFA when I tell you: There are a lot of really really boring people out there that just don't get it. They think "Product D
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Its very high acidity dough combined with its long, low bake makes the starches break down into sugars more compared to other breads.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I don't know how Slack operates as a business, but if they work like most companies I've worked for, every employee gets a similarly spec-ed out machine. Maybe it's a MacBook, maybe not. But at least some people should get
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I've found myself looking at 8 different kinds of mayonnaise now, and still can't find one that has added sugar (apart from the ingredients listed under 'contains less than 2% of..."). There is Miracle Whip but that is a
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> Sure, "bog standard" bread could have less sugar, but some sugar is essential for this style of bread. I fully agree. As a German I do want to point out that American style sandwich bread is a very specific style. Sugar goes

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