ThePadawan

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by ThePadawan 4y ago
The probabilities in Germany are around 12.5% and around 40% in Switzerland itself [0]. To live anywhere where to quote OP "it [would be] unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year" would basically mean living in a skia
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> 20 years ago it was unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year. This is one of those widely spread Mandela effect-style misconceptions. The chances of a white Christmas in the UK are around 10%, and depending where you are in
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Ah I beg your pardon. I read the comment in completely the wrong tone of voice. To me it seemed like the comment was attacking its parent for investigating state management frameworks in the first place - when it in fact called out "no
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
This relates in no way to any statement from the comment you replied to. Did you mean to reply to a different comment?
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> I have come across this sentiment often but there is no point in creating new artifacts just to record a meeting. What if the meeting was useless and nothing came out of it? I might be a huge cynic, but that seems to me to be the #1 re
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> What's the advantage of invariants over unit testing? I studied Eiffel in university under Bertrand Meyer, and here's his (probably unique) point of view. If someone hands you their library code and their unit tests, you have
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I do want to mention how we're now in Phase 3 of online recipes. Phase 1 was just putting up a recipe online without a giant preamble. Phase 2 was adding a giant preamble to get that SEO. Phase 3 is now having a "jump to recipe&qu
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I am at the point in my life where I have a shitty broken printer that I'm still not getting rid of, because at least I am aware of all the ways it is broken and shitty and how to fix them or work around them.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
The NHS is the National Health Service of the UK. There might be licensing/taxation/legal reasons for the region lock, or maybe no one thought anyone outside the UK would care.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Very much in the same boat here - 60 lbs down, still running. Congrats!
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Thank you for the well wishes and a happy new year!
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
For the reverse of the reverse - no one in Germany actually cares about David Hasselhoff.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I find it amazing but frustrating to no end that this much thought went into good design all that years ago, and it hasn't become absolutely standard to do so, like with the three-point seatbelt. In my (rented) kitchen, the dishwasher
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
You're bang on - I was asked in the very first call for two references. Also in this case I really don't mind disclosing - I was laid off because my position was made redundant entirely.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I've honestly made enough of a positive experience to recommend doing it. Sometimes people just genuinely tell you things like "there wasn't enough detail about X on your CV, but we took a chance and called you anyway" -
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I'm in similar shoes to the author here, and am glad to hear you show some understanding for this. I interviewed with a quite promising company beginning of December, only to immediately get the written feedback (after the first call)
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I was interviewing for a job in the middle and towards the end of 2020, and regardless of my chances of success or interest, I asked the interviewers how work from home had gone for them so far. I encountered this sentiment most of all - 40
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> Wait till they find out you can pay money for expedited passport renewal Can you? Not in my country of residence. > and for Group 1 boarding of the aircraft That's not a monopoly - you're free to choose any airline you wan
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Have you compared and contrasted Java and C# (especially with regards to let's say larger frameworks)? Both of those put a strong emphasis on types, but only one of those (it's Java) is the sort of language that really attracts de
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
That's the UK you're thinking of, not Germany.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
To everyone saying "well it doesn't sound that bad", let me just point out: For a standard that supposedly started out as "we need a short code to refer to an airport", there is now a IATA code (QYG) that represen
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
It's a common thing to miss. There's a reason SQL injections are (unless things have changed recently) among the most prevalent classes of web exploits.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
The realization that database procedures are code, not data, even though they reside on the database (where the data lives) is the difficult part.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
You joke, but I have literally never had as great of a success at work as that one time my team didn't end up building the software. We had great ideas about scheduling and caching and task priorities... ...and then we asked the cust
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
10k doesn't even buy you 2 Barcelona chairs. And those aren't even comfortable.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
> It's for drivers making the same 80-100 mile or so trip from port to warehouse every day. So this truck is bad as a truck...except for the use case where it should have been a train in the first place?
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
It's really funny how culture can shape perceptions. I grew up in the 90s in Germany, so every single child between 6 and 12 had these - before you became "too cool" for them and started using anything else to rebel against t
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
Not really. The whole thing was kept together with tape and silly string anyway, and I bet it still is now, more than 5 years on.
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I mean, no problem ever occurred. Things just accidentally worked even though they shouldn't, and that isn't a bug. The introduction of the additional types everywhere did turn into massive headaches based around dependency manage
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by ThePadawan 4y ago
I recently started tracking the books I read on GoodReads and their rating system struck me as the most American one yet: 5 stars: "it was amazing" 4 stars: "really liked it" 3 stars: "liked it" 2 stars: "

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