It's all about context [2001]

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col38.html

by js2 • 15 years ago

13 7 15 years ago

I was reminded of this story by the first segment of http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172801

/.: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/sophomore-uses-list-context-cops-interrogate

qw• 15 years ago

Unbelievable. Why couldn't the school contact the student first before going to the police?

brehardin• 15 years ago

This is crazy. People need to use common sense.

Causification• 15 years ago

Having read only the stonehenge page and not the full slashdot article, I don't even have to be metaphorical when I ask what kind of pathetic, alarmist, lilly-livered school district would call the police over anything short of an actual threat against the school?

If it happened around here, whoever read the page would probably think some chunk of the student's blog where he was talking about his hunting or range trip got inserted into the page by accident. I am genuinely disgusted at the type of personality who would react to that text by calling authorities.

pingswept• 15 years ago

[2001]

js22• 15 years ago

Thanks for the reminder. Added to title.

dbbo• 15 years ago

I didn't really learn anything about list-versus-scalar context from this article, but I did however learn that merlyn had been convicted of a felony.

js22• 15 years ago

I was reminded of this story by the first segment of http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/r...

via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172801

/.: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/sophomore-uses...

It's all about context [2001]

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