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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 s…

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).

A wheelchair is used for transporting a person.

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 …

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…

counting grid? What even are these?

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 ha…

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 thi…

Except when update schedule on the client differs from the server.

sure, except obviously sunrise at 6AM and sunset at 6PM.

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 fro…

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…

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…

"exceptions are exceptional" means what?

"round corners feel natural" is no better explanation than "round corners are smoother".

> 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 real…

listen to the sentence Psaki utters at about 66s in: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1448740969726156800

oh right > But what if you're not using C99 or newer? UB - that takes all the fun out of it.

> more efficient code that does the same thing In this case, it produces a different result.

You are unsure whether "2 + 2 = 4" is real, but certain that "2 + 2 + 4 = 8" is.

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 tha…

Nice toy example. > What information about the whole dataset can you extract from this join? You could count the number of users.

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…

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…

"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…