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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues? on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:14PM (#36777784)
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.
Re:IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink on Sunday February 19, 2023 @06:00AM (#34856473)
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...

Why jump through all those hoops? Just add a requirement for the game that prevents any form of cheating in the game.
I'm sure you can think of something better to do with your time than spend it on 'work'?
have you brought this incident to the polices attention?
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Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:46AM (#25397901)
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.
Re:Single_file_libs: List of single-file C/C++ libraries on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:00AM (#24894098)
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

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