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Comment No suprise but... (Score 1) 104

No surprise when something like this comes from China, but here in Croatia our traffic minister wanted to ban the Uber app (because just banning the Uber service isn't enough when you're a clueless luddite moron). He didn't gave any info how he's going to enforce the ban - even if local ISPs were forced to block the app everyone would be able to download it through VPNs.

Comment Agree (Score 1) 1001

In a recent job interview I had this question among others:
What data type in SQL Server I would use for a data column that would be filled with numbers between 1 and 100?
After looking in the SQL Server documentation, I've seen it's tinyint, but seriously, who actually tries to remember stuff like that? The point of the article is probably applicable in this case, they want to hire people who recently graduated or finished their courses as they are more likely to know stuff that everyone else thinks it's pointless to learn since it only takes a quick Google search to find out the answer.
Not all questions were like that but I still failed the interview.

Comment Re:Cheating at Tournaments (Score 2) 105

Chess can be played in 500 years same as we play it today. So can football, baseball, any sport you can think of.

Except car racing, which is constantly evolving, just like computer games (and has a lot more common with e-sports than chess or football). It, however, isn't an olympic sport, and I think it shouldn't be (even though I'm a big fan of it) since that would force the car racing to submit into certain cliches, removing the charm that comes from every track and car being different.

Racing cars get replaced my more modern version and so do competitive video games, but the main premise won't change much for as long as it has clear and attractive goals. Even CS:GO has the same basic rules as the original CounterStrike that got released 20 years ago.

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