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 Discussion on question by Antinatalis…

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Chris Hayes
Mar 29, 2019 20:49
@PedroLobito Comments are for clarifying the question, not satisfying any vague curiosity which crosses your mind.
 

 Discussion on answer by gnasher729: C…

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Chris Hayes
Dec 31, 2018 23:27
@WGroleau They agreed to the notice (via the contract, and by employing people in a country with these legal restrictions), which I'm guessing is what gnasher meant.
 

 Discussion on answer by Kilisi: Is it…

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Chris Hayes
Apr 25, 2018 21:02
@MaskedMan Please stop telling everyone to write answers instead of comments. It is entirely appropriate to use comments to discuss flaws in answers. Not every criticism needs to be its own answer. What I wrote is in no way an answer and shouldn't be dismissed by such a flippant comment.
Chris Hayes
Apr 25, 2018 21:02
There's a world of difference between "not professional" (i.e. not related to the job) and "unprofessional" (which has negative connotations). What church I attend is not a professional matter. Sending a mass email at work for everyone to come to my church is unprofessional. We can hopefully do better than pretending to be a dictionary in answers here.
 

 Discussion on answer by Lightness Rac…

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Chris Hayes
Feb 12, 2018 23:25
@errantlinguist You were given actual advice. There's something which is very important to you, which you're trying to get someone else to do without incentive. You need to realize that and either make it important to the other person, or do it yourself. Instead you choose to play the martyr here.
 

 Discussion on answer by DavePhD: Is a…

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Chris Hayes
Nov 1, 2017 02:17
What is the definition of "feloniously killed" in use here? Would this include, e.g., if an officer was struck by an uninvolved vehicle during a traffic stop?
 

 Discussion on answer by Digital Fire:…

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Chris Hayes
Oct 30, 2017 21:16
According to this answer, the entire area of contract law would appear to not exist. Serious question: do you actually have any legal expertise? If not, please don't pretend to. This whole answer reads as an assertion of fact, but it's in desperate need of citation.
Chris Hayes
Oct 30, 2017 21:16
"I've been a software dev for 15 years" is an extraordinarily different statement from "I've been a lawyer specializing in software rights for 15 years". I've been breathing for a long time but I don't consider myself an expert in air pollution law.
 

 Discussion on answer by apaul34208: H…

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Chris Hayes
Aug 20, 2017 20:18
This might be a good explanation for what "check your privilege" means, but it doesn't really answer the question of how to respond to such a statement in general.
 

 Discussion on answer by AgapwIesu: Is…

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Chris Hayes
Jan 24, 2017 22:02
@dbanet No offense, but you have no involvement in this community, judging by your account history. Maybe let this community run itself instead of waging a war about how someone chose to compose their answer. Different SE sites are free to conduct themselves as they choose.
 

 Discussion on question by W .Groom: U…

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Chris Hayes
Dec 6, 2016 18:52
@W.Groom It is definitely not the case that you normally have an expert to teach you. Experts are in rare supply. If you're lucky, an expert wrote something that you can read and use to teach yourself. Otherwise, you just have to figure it out.
 

 Discussion on question by Blaszard: H…

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Chris Hayes
Oct 9, 2016 18:30
@LightnessRacesinOrbit The fact that you can't "imagine" it doesn't mean you need to leave a snarky comment. My work requires me to VPN and use remote desktop software, which would be completely unusable at 200Kbps (believe me, I've tried it). Dismissive responses like "first world problem! put your phone down!" are unhelpful.
Chris Hayes
Oct 9, 2016 18:30
@LightnessRacesinOrbit Plenty of people use hotel Wi-Fi for work. Your contempt is undeserved.
 

 Discussion on question by Heinzi: How…

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Chris Hayes
Jul 18, 2016 17:59
@kevincline I work at Amazon and it's fine. We're also pretty strict about any problem dogs not being allowed at work anymore. Generally as long as the owner is attentive and responsible, and there aren't a whole bunch of dogs within the same area, you forget that there's even dogs at work.
 

 Discussion on answer by JimmyJames: W…

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Chris Hayes
Jun 23, 2016 21:24
@nocomprende Why? If you disallow comparing the same integer to itself - which probably does have some purpose to somebody, somewhere - then SQL injection will just be based on some more complex always-true condition that can't be detected by the optimizer. The road to security does not involve special casing a bunch of behavior and making the DBMS harder to reason about.
 

 Discussion on question by Daniël van …

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Chris Hayes
Jun 22, 2016 12:24
@nocomprende "My build takes 30 seconds! I'm leaving the company!" This is the very height of absurdity. Please spend some time in industry.
Chris Hayes
Jun 22, 2016 12:24
@nocomprende In your teaching, try having your students compile enterprise scale programs. Of course little example programs and homework assignments don't take long to compile, there's almost nothing there.
 

 Discussion on question by Reaces: Is …

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Chris Hayes
Apr 22, 2016 08:46
@magma I'm sure the OP would get right on that if they were the CEO, but given that they're not, it's not a particularly helpful comment on this question.
 

 Discussion on question by gardenhead:…

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Chris Hayes
Apr 14, 2016 11:15
@JoeBlow You clearly have no idea why git was created, not to mention a shocking lack of insight into the fact that not everyone is on gigabit internet all of the time. You like SVN; good for you. To claim that git is silly and essentially has no reason for existing is just bullheaded.
 

 Discussion on question by Ulkoma: How…

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Chris Hayes
Jun 17, 2015 09:10
To be fair, if I asked a caller from my bank to read off my account number over the phone and they did it, I'd be extremely upset with them.
 

 Discussion on answer by Paul: How to …

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Chris Hayes
Jun 3, 2015 18:15
Guys, I know tons of people here started on Stack Overflow, but you're not there anymore. Take the technical discussions to a chat room.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ewan: Short c…

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Chris Hayes
May 22, 2015 01:03
You're seriously grasping at straws with this latest edit, combining the short-circuiting and non-short-circuiting operators in a single conditional. I'm siding with everyone else who says that short-circuiting operators are 100% okay and you just don't have much experience with them, judging by the strawmen you keep throwing out to argue against them (parameter validation? seriously?).
 

 Discussion between meme scientist and…

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Chris Hayes
Dec 16, 2014 06:43
I honestly don't see how you're considering that to be the OP's original question. It's clearly about using their phone's internet, at best, to get around their data cap. It has nothing to do with downloading remotely, and nothing I can see in the first revision points that way.
Chris Hayes
Dec 16, 2014 06:43
Let me now ask you: did you read my comment? I clearly stated that the second half of the answer is now irrelevant. The original state of the question does not matter. You misunderstood the question, it was clarified, and now you have cruft which ought to be removed. The first half of the answer is fine and should remain.
Chris Hayes
Dec 16, 2014 06:43
@memescientist On a side note, knock it off with the "did you read the answer" crap. It's possible for people to have legitimate disagreements or misunderstandings, and you're trivializing all of that.
Chris Hayes
Dec 16, 2014 06:43
@memescientist Let me rephrase: the entire gigantic second half of the answer is entirely superfluous and should be removed. Yes, the first part answers it, but the rest is off-topic for this question.
Chris Hayes
Dec 16, 2014 06:43
@memescientist An unclear title then does not excuse a bad answer now. You're clearly aware that this isn't answering the actual question, so why leave it?