ThePadawan

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by ThePadawan 7y ago
I sort of have a beef with the usage of "SQL performance". I know what people mean, but it still irks me. SQL is a declarative query language. It describes the meaning of your query. The execution of the query has performance impl
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Location: Zurich, Switzerland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C# (ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core), Java, Python (Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy), T-SQL, GCP, Docker, TypeScript/Javascript, React, Vue.js,
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
They do, and they are linked as "Video (ETHZ)".
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Cynical opinion: School is first and foremost a place where kids are kept so they're busy. Much like compulsory military service is a place where young adults are kept so they're busy. The answer to "Why aren't schools a
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Thank you for the clarification! Still, makes me think that this could have been stated clearly instead of relying on the reader interpreting it in that manner.
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
> Example 2: A says: "I am a knave, but B isn't." > (...code here...) > > Thus, in this example, both A and B are knaves. Under the premise that knaves always lie, if A is a knave, then their statement "I am
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
OK - so if it is so obvious that you can't scale from 0 to 100 on launch day, why not anticipate that? Ticket sales platforms for major sports events and concerts don't try to do it - they plan for it by having customers queue. Di
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
What a fascinating artifact for future archaelogists. Or cultural anthropologists?
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
I always find it weird that Switzerland as a neutral, but financially involved country would be considered neither part of the Axis nor the Allies. They did supply weaponry to both sides.
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Location: Zurich, Switzerland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but not before Summer of 2020. Technologies: C# (ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core), Java, Python (Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy), T-SQL, GCP, Docker, TypeScript&
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Just to counter your cynicism with my own: I've made the experience that unless they can make profit off you, you threaten to sue them, or take them to the union/board/bureau/cops, no company is ever going to "get b
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Title should read .ttf, right? Or am I being Mandela'd.
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
IIRC this was also the case for node/V8/I don't recall: Whether a function was inlineable was decided based on its size - and that was determined based on size-as-text instead of size-as-AST. This lead to the situation where
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
It's a 100% reasonable to teach it. The German Wikipedia result right now is a disambiguation page between the snack and the place to buy the snack ("Imbiss" always being short for Imbissbude, Imbissstand etc.).
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
I can only agree with the other responses. In my personal usage, I would say Abendessen and Snack. Abendbrot sounds like something a 60+ year old would call it. I haven't heard it called Brotzeit since I was in elementary school in Bav
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
I just learned that Python allows overriding __isub__ separately from __sub__ and the same for __iadd__ [0]. Really interesting! [0] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Very Baader-Meinhof! I think I heard about this in a recent Only Connect or QI episode (?). I wonder what the overlap of viewers is between those shows and HN.
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
The paragraph goes into further detail that this was seemingly the first public appearance (so to say) on TV, but it might have been previously made by his mentor Hans Karl Adam. So if the scene is set in '53 and mentions "Oh I ju
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
I'm sorely disappointed about the English language Wikipedia article on Toast Hawaii. Yes, it was a post-war German invention, but it was also so much more than that. Just the fact that the German-language article [0] has a three-parag
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Not a computer engineer either, but I did do some GPGPU in college (~6 years ago). Notably, branching on a flag f on the GPU was so slow that most of the time it was faster to (manually) compute both branches b1 and b2 and then calculate th
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
...and then they closed their Swiss offices in 2017 [0]. [0] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/software-shock_autodesk-to-shut...
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Yes, they can and do. This of course leads to a societal enclave where even expats that would like to integrate into Swiss society find it harder and harder to do so. On the other hand, the more right-wing press and parties use them to poin
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
I would like to point out that since the movies are not available on any major streaming service, there is also no actor pursuing the take-down of high quality copies on private trackers etc.. Seems like a good deal to me.
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
I would say it's slight exaggeration, having lived in Switzerland for over ten years. I would put it on the same level as "my home owner's association fined me for only watering my lawn twice a week instead of three times a w
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Can confirm - the local media will reprint the same articles every few months on how expats are moving away because the Swiss are too standoffish. And that includes Germans. I don't want to lean too heavily on the cliches, but if you c
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Sure. Now name any Swiss company that makes software that you heard of before. I'll wait. Switzerland is eager to compare itself to Silicon Valley as a center for education and innovation, but I have lived here for 11 years and I can t
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
It's how a non-English-native speaker would build the adjective to Sisyphus. After all, that is his name. My native tongue is German, and if I hadn't heard the word Sisyphean before, I would have tried to find it in the same manne
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Post could profit from a rename since it's about the KeY project and the current title is only a tagline that's not expanded on further.
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
Are you thinking of other Activision/Blizzard properties? Hearthstone itself is free-to-play. The most a player can do is not spend future money.
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by ThePadawan 7y ago
If this was health advice instead of career advice, it would read as * Eat less * Move more * Consume in moderation * Socialize These pieces of advice may not be immediately obvious, but they're also incredibly unhelpful.

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