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petterparker | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues?

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. At least when I was working for a contractor in the automotive industry, these kind of tasks where measured in story-points as well since story points roughly translate into paychecks.

petterparker | 3 years ago | on: IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink

Also ignoring that estonia has a population of only about 1.3 million, let alone the geographic size. It's a tiny country, which makes it easier to build infrastructure. Estonia has received heavy subsidies from the EU which went towards infrastructure projects. Germany on the other hand is the largest financial contributor to the EU by far. [1]

The plan has worked, to share the success of the big economic powers within the EU with the lesser fortunate so that they could be competitive in the future and even the grounds. It's not a surprise that coming out like the original commenter isn't exactly well received.

[1] https://statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/38139/umfrage/ne...

petterparker | 3 years ago | on: Hackers demand $10M from Riot Games to stop leak of ‘League of Legends’ code

Why jump through all those hoops? Just add a requirement for the game that prevents any form of cheating in the game.

petterparker | 3 years ago | on: 'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles

I'm sure you can think of something better to do with your time than spend it on 'work'?

petterparker | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to contact Uber about a rider safety exploit being used in the wild?

have you brought this incident to the polices attention?

petterparker | 5 years ago | on: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

They do this. I've found plenty of new songs and artists through spotify.

petterparker | 5 years ago | on: Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

Same here in Munich, we've had a course on software-testing in OOP-languages and had to write unit-tests for some modules of jenkins which were graded and eventually merged into master.

petterparker | 5 years ago | on: figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

I usually use this one: http://patorjk.com/software/taag/

petterparker | 5 years ago | on: Single_file_libs: List of single-file C/C++ libraries

this one might fit the description as well:

Rax is a radix tree implementation initially written to be used in a specific place of Redis in order to solve a performance problem, but immediately converted into a stand alone project to make it reusable for Redis itself, outside the initial intended application, and for other projects as well.

https://github.com/antirez/rax

petterparker | 5 years ago | on: Expert overclockers successfully push DOOM Eternal past 1k frames per second

Monitors with high refresh rates (usually 140Hz but up to 240Hz) are quite common among gamers these days.