talaketu

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by talaketu 3y ago
Note that Employees were not a party to the merger agreement. Does an acquisition FAQ bind the company? I believe the argument is that it was effectively an offer to employees to stick around, and employees who did so effectively accepte
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by talaketu 3y ago
If "in the park" is meant as an analogy for "on the platform" in content moderation, then curiously enough Twitter suspended @RealDonaldTrump for off-park action (Jan 6).
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by talaketu 3y ago
A wheelchair is used for transporting a person.
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by talaketu 3y ago
Let's say that in your opinion: (a) it's a vehicle, (b) it's in the park, (c) but the park authority doesn't have jurisdiction over the activity. Is the correct resolution to deny (b)? Maybe I'm misunderstanding
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by talaketu 4y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586686935518498816 > There seem to be 10 people "managing" for every one person coding Take this literally, not as as a ration. - each SWE in a product team has an
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by talaketu 4y ago
counting grid? What even are these?
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by talaketu 4y ago
Indeed - though I think this is a mathematical philosophy about theories. "Genius" is a nice word choice to emphasize your point - it refers to some kind of distinct spirit that happens to inspire the person, not the person themse
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by talaketu 4y ago
Business data / process flow is so stable compared to a software implementation that having quality documentation pays dividends again and again. If you could document only one thing, document the business data flow.
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by talaketu 5y ago
Except when update schedule on the client differs from the server.
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by talaketu 5y ago
sure, except obviously sunrise at 6AM and sunset at 6PM.
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by talaketu 5y ago
Yes, this is said, but the meaning of "prove" (which is related to "probe") has not really changed very much at all compared to "test" - a word which in this sense is a metonym from the fired pot used for assay
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by talaketu 5y ago
The primary definition (OED) is "forming an exception", which is why I think this cliche is a tautology ("exceptions are for forming an exception") that does nothing to guide me on whether an exception is appropriate in
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by talaketu 5y ago
English also has the phrase "the exception proves the rule" - and it's just swell when our general code handles special cases. I would have not have thought an unreachable host was exceptional, given that it's quite norm
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by talaketu 5y ago
"exceptions are exceptional" means what?
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by talaketu 5y ago
"round corners feel natural" is no better explanation than "round corners are smoother".
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by talaketu 5y ago
> you'll see no benefit if you were paginating PKs in the first place, but most app developers are paginating actual records, right? You are unclear on this point, but I don't really see how it addresses any of parent's (g
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by talaketu 5y ago
listen to the sentence Psaki utters at about 66s in: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1448740969726156800
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by talaketu 5y ago
oh right > But what if you're not using C99 or newer? UB - that takes all the fun out of it.
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by talaketu 5y ago
> more efficient code that does the same thing In this case, it produces a different result.
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by talaketu 5y ago
You are unsure whether "2 + 2 = 4" is real, but certain that "2 + 2 + 4 = 8" is.
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by talaketu 5y ago
It's a matter of language and logic. "another" is a contraction of "one other", and "other" means "distinct". So, given you have "one (element) and one different (element)", at that p
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by talaketu 5y ago
Nice toy example. > What information about the whole dataset can you extract from this join? You could count the number of users.
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by talaketu 5y ago
You over-fit the "fallacy of irrelevance". This is my feeling about the Monty Hall problem: The fact that Monty is now offering me the option to take make chances and switch to the other door, after I have chosen this one, when
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by talaketu 5y ago
I can see how you might avoid "highly coupled with implementation details" example-based tests. With a little abstraction, you can do the same with property-based tests. Properties as external assertions that you code up as a tes
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by talaketu 5y ago
"Would a tree falling in the forest ..." never seemed much of a puzzle to me. I don't agree with the proposition that life on Earth had no value until it gave rise to the evolution of Homo sapiens, or that it would have no va
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by talaketu 5y ago
The article mentioned the fire was started by lightening. It didn't state the cause of all these fires, but there is plenty of evidence and theory about how a hotter drier climate leads to an increase in the intensity and frequency of
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by talaketu 5y ago
"Who cares?" reminds me of the diagnostician's distinction between signs and symptoms. Vital signs of the health of the biosphere can be measured, just like your blood pressure can be measured regardless of whether you I sh
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by talaketu 5y ago
If you accept the idea that the planet's biosphere is a super-organism, then a natural description of large-scale and ongoing reduction in ecological diversity could be "disease".
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by talaketu 5y ago
What's bullshit is your suggestion that Facebook is not subject to Australian law! For example see News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code - it requires platforms such as FB to enter into commercial arrangements with
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by talaketu 5y ago
Note that Facebook was a not a respondent in the original defamation case. In any case, multiple parties can be responsible for publication. From point 55 of the judgement: > The Court of Appeal was correct to hold that the acts of t

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