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by richbell 4y ago
> Just because one does not know the definition of Autopilot, doesn't make on right. If you look at the definition you will se that "Autopilots do not replace human operators." If someone needs to know the definition of a
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by richbell 4y ago
Isn't that functionally the same though? They're acting in bad faith by closing a store to avoid fair negotiations. It's a move that's meant to punish the workers for unionizinf and have a chilling effect for unionizatio
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by richbell 4y ago
> You're telling me it's harder for a worker to change their working time or productivity by 4 seconds a week than to close a store? This seems deliberately obtuse. The point is that employees only have one or two jobs. If they
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by richbell 4y ago
That's a bad comparison because the power dynamics are wildly different. To quote another commenter: > Employees can’t 1/35,000th quit the way Starbucks can close 1/35,000th of its locations. https://news.ycombi
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by richbell 4y ago
Having been privy to a few "studies" like this, I'm imagining the following conversating in my head: "Hey Brian, how long would you say it takes you deal with a CVE on average?" 'Gee, I don't know, I guess
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by richbell 4y ago
It's a joke referring to their practice of dumping companies' internal source code publicly.
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by richbell 4y ago
Sounds like an gentlemanly duel to me!
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by richbell 4y ago
One of my close friends became a cop because he enjoyed helping people, resolving disputes, and building a rapport and sense of community. He thought that the job of a police officer was to protect and serve the community. Needless to say,
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by richbell 4y ago
> GitHub is NOT trivial, and it is extremely browser centric. Trying to just download a file is an exercise in frustration if you're not familiar with GitHub. Copying a link to your clipboard that can actually be used to download a
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by richbell 4y ago
> You cannot claim it's a reasonable interpretation when no other competitor, nor the person who wrote that rule, nor the person who adjudicated that rule ... thought that. You're just throwing around blind speculation. The stu
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by richbell 4y ago
> Yeah, and if they pointed it out before the competition ended, that would count as "on the fly". "On the fly" includes after initial disqualification or final results. In some cases it is not possible or desirable t
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by richbell 4y ago
> The inclusion of Github is not a mistake, because Github[1] cites Jekyll[2] (another named example) as a feature and provides features (web hosting and design tools) similar to another example named: Webs[3]. > Would it be more prud
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by richbell 4y ago
> Those multi-line blank gaps all over the place are not something that generally occur in hand crafted or "from scratch" html. Idk, that looks fairly standard to me. A lot of people like to space out their HTML so it's ea
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by richbell 4y ago
> The rule didn't say some parts of Github was okay, the rule said Github was not allowed. The rule is clearly written with the mistaken belief that GitHub is a templating engine. The person that judged their submission also confi
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by richbell 4y ago
> It's childish and immature, in a competition, to question the rules only after you have been caught breaking them. How is it childish and immature? They were clearly following the spirit of the competition. Furthermore there is no
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by richbell 4y ago
> You're looking at it from the PoV of the rule-breakers, and saying "This is clearly a stupid rule". Look at it from the PoV of those competitors who had to do without github - they are saying "well, it's unfair
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by richbell 4y ago
> it is kind of irrelevant, because we don't know anything about the process that led to GitHub being included on the list. The inclusion of GitHub, as written, is clearly either a mistake or the product of ignorance. The students r
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by richbell 4y ago
That's a good parallel to draw. Far too many people believe that the police are always right and you must comply with any demands, no matter how unlawful or nonsensical.
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by richbell 4y ago
"Sorry, the rules clearly state that you can't browse websites that promote hacking or other criminal behaviour, like hackernews. It doesn't matter that HN isn't actually a criminal website, we must always unquestioningl
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by richbell 4y ago
GitHub pages also deploys straight HTML if available, which is what they did. They did not use the template engine functionality.
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by richbell 4y ago
> The rule is "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files ... are NOT permitted." and goes on to mention an inexhaustive list of examples which names Github among others.
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by richbell 4y ago
> On top of that, until yesterday they actually (accidentally) ran Jekyll during CI as well because it is hosted on GitHub pages: ... That's just the commit where they added `.nojekyll` at Reddit's suggestion. (Unless I'm
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by richbell 4y ago
> You really can't get anymore explicit than "sites that generate HTML from text ... such as ... GitHub ... are NOT permitted." > Is excluding Github okay? If you ask me, that question is irrelevant. The contest is abou
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by richbell 4y ago
> Its a battle, everything is ok. Have you heard of the Geneva Convention?
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by richbell 4y ago
Indeed. It took me a while before I realized that "tickbox compliance" was a deliberate strategy and not mere incompetence.
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by richbell 4y ago
What if he read the docs for that function prior to the "important" note being added?
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by richbell 4y ago
Anecdotally, I know of at least one large FI that tells auditors it's doing x, y, and z for security, when in reality their security practices are abysmal. They spend $1MM a year on a vendor product that in theory does x, y, z (thoug
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by richbell 4y ago
> It was bad enough that they got it wrong, but then Evan doubled down by dedicating the opening of his next conference talk to mocking the users who were unhappy about the changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-
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by richbell 4y ago
> I remember, there was a case where a farmer grew patented plants on his field. They spread to his neighbours field who then got sued by the patent holding company for not licensing that plant. My memory is a bit fuzzy here but you get
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by richbell 4y ago
> Tab! Tab! Tab! PostgreSQL demonstrates its field autocomplete feature. SELECT preceeding FROM is such a thorn in the side. :(

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