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by xen0 4y ago
Sure; dock me a mark or two and tell me why. But why not just give a straight zero to the others that didn't actually do the work?
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by xen0 4y ago
What struck me the most when reading this, is how long they waited to inform the students they knew cheating was occurring. If they had informed the class earlier, they may have been able to stem the worst of it, rather than letting it beco
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by xen0 4y ago
You graded the original worse than the copies? So the copiers were rewarded?
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by xen0 4y ago
In Munich, they seem to regard every crossing as dangerous. :( It really is quite obnoxious.
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by xen0 4y ago
Both Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon both feature a very literal party, gathering at a very literal tavern.
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by xen0 4y ago
I have very fond memories of this game; I played it a lot as a child and can still probably recite a great number of the word-locks. I'm pretty sure my parents would still recognise the riddle music too, even after 20+ years. I remembe
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by xen0 4y ago
That trilogy (Betrayal, Assassins, Tear of the Gods) is weird. 'Krondor: The Assassins' is 'readable' at least, but is also the only one not based on a game; it can be a little more focused, although it retains it's
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by xen0 4y ago
Gravitationally, nothing would change if the sun was replaced by a black hole of the same mass, at least for objects above the surface of the current sun. But being 1 kilometer above the event horizon of that black hole would be very differ
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by xen0 4y ago
Migrations tends to involve deleting lines too. A 200 line change typically doesn't grow the code base by 200 lines. I believe in my 2.5 years at Google, I've actually deleted more lines of code than I've added.
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by xen0 4y ago
Still leaves them with $200, waiting for the erroneous $10k to be returned. The author's reading comprehension may leave something to be desired, but so does the interface they were using.
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by xen0 5y ago
My experience with Confluence's search was that it's a mistake the press Enter. That is, the pop-up results that appear as I typed where significantly better than the actual "search results" page.
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by xen0 5y ago
Those are blood pressure readings, not heart rate. And yeah, alcohol consumption tends to increase blood pressure.
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by xen0 5y ago
I believe that's just endorphins. I'm familiar with the sensation; it's enough to make you feel better, possibly even sober (if it was a drinking related episode), but the effect is unfortunately very temporary.
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by xen0 5y ago
I wonder, how many engineers had full time jobs just developing and maintaining the various integrations with all their small clients?
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by xen0 5y ago
Thanks, but I'll be sticking to Kelvin* when setting my oven. * Or Rankine if you're American.
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by xen0 5y ago
Most of the time I would expect the code to be already exercised by automated tests. Sometimes, if it adds a new feature or something 'interesting', I've checked it out locally to see what the user-facing behaviour is, but th
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by xen0 5y ago
That's easy: y > 0 is False, not NaN. You may not think this is wise, but this is very much how comparisons with NaN are defined. And I think this is better than exception raising. Again, I think it would be _really_ weird for simpl
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by xen0 5y ago
Should it? It isn't obvious to me at all that throwing an exception in this case is the best behaviour. Throwing an exception when testing a value for 'truthiness' is extremely surprising. On the other hand, I would strongly
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by xen0 5y ago
The capabilities of the modern Russian state to control and inflict harm and terror upon its people far outweigh the capabilities of the 18th Century British Empire in regards to its American colonies. The modern idea of a police force didn
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by xen0 5y ago
It's so pro-government that the government feels the need to discredit it? Interesting...
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by xen0 5y ago
I don't think this is a good comparison. The Emperor of Japan was part of a very old, very well established monarchy; his legitimacy in the office of Monarch far outweighed that of Saddam's in the office of Tyrant.
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by xen0 5y ago
Note that this does not apply to Ukraine because (as an ex-Soviet country) it uses the same rail-gauge as Russia.
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by xen0 5y ago
There is currently no requirement in the UK for someone to actually have a passport or equivalent document. And unless you travel, there isn't much reason to have any if you're under the age of 17.
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by xen0 5y ago
How about a label given to a track that runs parallel to manager?
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by xen0 5y ago
If you own a Switch, I encourage you to drop whatever it is you're doing and go lick one of the cartridges. You need to experience this.
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by xen0 5y ago
Restricted Stock Unit; a form of compensation that a company may provide. Such stock is subject to a vesting period, where you only gain the stock after a period of time.
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by xen0 5y ago
Or maybe we just need a new company beginning with an F?
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by xen0 5y ago
I'm a little surprised at the notion that British English is more likely to preserve full pronunciation of 'T's. In my experience, and in my own speech, it is quite common for British accents to completely replace a T with a
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by xen0 5y ago
I graduated University with a Bachelor's degree in Maths and Physics. I 'accidently' landed a job as a Software Dev with a small amateurish company near my parents home. Passing their job interview basically required that I c
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by xen0 5y ago
The acronym wasn't so much about 'the Big Tech' companies, more about 'Innovative tech companies that dominate, or are poised to dominate, their market'. Also remember that the landscape has changed since the initia

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