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I don't like the name but it begs the question... Is April fools the 'marketing dept' version of 'Staging' in a CI/CD pipeline? (or maybe blue/green deployment

I don't like the name but it begs the question... Is April fools the 'marketing dept' version of 'Staging' in a CI/CD pipeline? (or maybe blue/green deployment is better analogy !) Like, if the tests fail (the public is enraged at your tweak ex. 'volt'swagen) , rollback the change under the guise of 'April fools'

adrianb 6y ago
Obituaries are prematurely published all the time. I'm surprised April's Fools aren't published early more often.
- luhn 6y ago
  > Obituaries are prematurely published all the time Unless you're describing Death Note I'm not sure what you mean by this.
  - tikhonj 6y ago
    Publications have pre-written obituaries for famous people to make sure they can respond immediately when somebody famous dies. Occasionally these obituaries get published in response to incorrect rumors or simply through some kind of internal error—always a bit awkward!
    - colejohnson66 6y ago
      That’s actually how we got the Nobel Prizes. Nobel was famous for inventing dynamite. After his brother died, some newspapers reported his death with their prewritten obituary about how “The merchant of death is dead”. After seeing that, he changed his outlook and modified his will to create the Nobel Prizes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
      - toomanybeersies 6y ago
        I particularly appreciate the irony in the Nobel Peace Prize, especially as Henry Kissinger is a laureate.
        yellowapple 6y ago
        Good ol' Henry Kissinger, one of only two Nobel Peace Prize laureates with the distinction of having bombed another Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
  - nitrogen 6y ago
    I once worked on the same floor as an online magazine publishing group. Their niche included reporting on famous figures within a specific domain. In order to be able to react to news of a famous figure's death, they had pre-written memorial articles for any of these figures whose age seemed to suggest their time was near. Unfortunately, a bug in the CMS and/or a fat finger occasionally allowed one of these pre-prepared obituaries to go live while the famous person was still alive. Another interesting thing I observed: since that magazine was also owned by the central organization in their domain, they sometimes had to take down interesting articles (e.g. about this organization's holdings or business dealings) after receiving a phone call from somebody important.
flyingfences 6y ago
It invites the question. http://begthequestion.info/ http://begthequestion.info/
- blackearl 6y ago
  English is pliable and sometimes a word or phrase becomes what the masses think of it, especially when "journalists, advertisers, and major mass media entities" use it that way. See literally, irregardless Irregardless, it literally begs the question.
- jakeva 6y ago
  I don't really want to get into it, those days are long behind me. But I couldn't help feeling dissatisfied with the content you linked. A simple example would be "My favorite author is always right because he says so in his latest book." The proof is merely a restatement of the premise. The sentence has begged the question. Ok, but... why? It asserts that "begging the question" is misused, asserts a "real" meaning, but doesn't explain it. In what way is a restatement of the premise a form of "begging the question"? I don't get it and just wanted to vent a little bit, putting my feelings about linguistic prescriptivism aside.
  - inopinatus 6y ago
    The idiom is a mistranslation of petitio principii, which is the Latin phrase meaning to assume the intended point, and which itself is a 16th-century mistranslation of Aristotle from around 2,300 years ago, so it’s a wonder that anyone still understands this phrase at all. I recommend treating this phrase, “to beg the question”, as an irregular verb. The component words provide the inflections, but not the meaning, although there may be some poetic utility.
  - yellowapple 6y ago
    You could almost say it... ...begs the question.
- anoncake 6y ago
  Prescriptivism is bullshit.
dan_quixote 6y ago
In politics, they call this a "trial balloon". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon

adrianb 6y ago

Obituaries are prematurely published all the time. I'm surprised April's Fools aren't published early more often.

luhn 6y ago
> Obituaries are prematurely published all the time Unless you're describing Death Note I'm not sure what you mean by this.
- tikhonj 6y ago
  Publications have pre-written obituaries for famous people to make sure they can respond immediately when somebody famous dies. Occasionally these obituaries get published in response to incorrect rumors or simply through some kind of internal error—always a bit awkward!
  - colejohnson66 6y ago
    That’s actually how we got the Nobel Prizes. Nobel was famous for inventing dynamite. After his brother died, some newspapers reported his death with their prewritten obituary about how “The merchant of death is dead”. After seeing that, he changed his outlook and modified his will to create the Nobel Prizes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
    - toomanybeersies 6y ago
      I particularly appreciate the irony in the Nobel Peace Prize, especially as Henry Kissinger is a laureate.
      - yellowapple 6y ago
        Good ol' Henry Kissinger, one of only two Nobel Peace Prize laureates with the distinction of having bombed another Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- nitrogen 6y ago
  I once worked on the same floor as an online magazine publishing group. Their niche included reporting on famous figures within a specific domain. In order to be able to react to news of a famous figure's death, they had pre-written memorial articles for any of these figures whose age seemed to suggest their time was near. Unfortunately, a bug in the CMS and/or a fat finger occasionally allowed one of these pre-prepared obituaries to go live while the famous person was still alive. Another interesting thing I observed: since that magazine was also owned by the central organization in their domain, they sometimes had to take down interesting articles (e.g. about this organization's holdings or business dealings) after receiving a phone call from somebody important.

flyingfences 6y ago

It invites the question. http://begthequestion.info/ http://begthequestion.info/

blackearl 6y ago
English is pliable and sometimes a word or phrase becomes what the masses think of it, especially when "journalists, advertisers, and major mass media entities" use it that way. See literally, irregardless Irregardless, it literally begs the question.
jakeva 6y ago
I don't really want to get into it, those days are long behind me. But I couldn't help feeling dissatisfied with the content you linked. A simple example would be "My favorite author is always right because he says so in his latest book." The proof is merely a restatement of the premise. The sentence has begged the question. Ok, but... why? It asserts that "begging the question" is misused, asserts a "real" meaning, but doesn't explain it. In what way is a restatement of the premise a form of "begging the question"? I don't get it and just wanted to vent a little bit, putting my feelings about linguistic prescriptivism aside.
- inopinatus 6y ago
  The idiom is a mistranslation of petitio principii, which is the Latin phrase meaning to assume the intended point, and which itself is a 16th-century mistranslation of Aristotle from around 2,300 years ago, so it’s a wonder that anyone still understands this phrase at all. I recommend treating this phrase, “to beg the question”, as an irregular verb. The component words provide the inflections, but not the meaning, although there may be some poetic utility.
- yellowapple 6y ago
  You could almost say it... ...begs the question.
anoncake 6y ago
Prescriptivism is bullshit.

dan_quixote 6y ago

In politics, they call this a "trial balloon". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon