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A workaround I've used sometimes to retrigger CI is to do `git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author`. This changes the sha by changing the author timestamp. Then you can force push it to the PR branch

I think the person you're replying to is saying that "fully implement every unit test up front" does not describe TDD. With TDD you continuously alternate between writing tests and writing production code. It's not like you write a whole test suite up front.

Twike 5 years ago

There must be a typo somewhere in your comment, I don't understand how 350/week for 5 months is better than 500/month.

It makes sense to me that merge commits would "contain changes" (i.e. that a merge commit's tree would have content that is not in either parent's tree), otherwise how else would you represent the result of resolving merge conflicts?

It's fine to take issue with charged language like the word "stolen", which can be interpreted in different ways; maybe you interpret that as "I won the vote count but the votes were changed", but it could also be reasonably interpreted as "I lost the vote count but I'm concerned people were influenced to vote that way through nefarious means".

I think there is a reasonable distinction between that statement and the specific claims of fraud we have been seeing for the last few months.

These aren't accusations of voter (or election) fraud in the same sense as was being claimed for 2020. From your second link:

During the tour's stop Friday in Seattle, Clinton pointed to FBI Director Christopher Wray's warning last month that Russia continues to pose a "very significant counterintelligence threat" and that efforts to influence U.S. elections with "social media, fake news" and "propaganda" has "continued pretty much unabated."

But in this scenario, the news station is not providing enough information for the citizen to develop an informed opinion. I guess there's room for a service like that that just has raw video (as one element of a wider media ecosystem), but it's also valuable for the news to actually explain events in a larger context.

If this hypothetical political candidate is saying something that's not true (or is disputed), and news station B just runs a raw video of their speech, you could argue it's favoring that candidate by allowing their message to spread without providing the appropriate context.

Just to clarify, Donald Trump called them "Clinton News Network". I think it's a little misleading to say they just "got the nickname".

Here is a question posed by the article:

IT’S HARD TO DETERMINE the extent to which Facebook caused this hyperpartisanship or simply stumbled into it. Did Facebook cultivate more extreme beliefs or simply take what was already simmering and thrust it into the open?

Mr. McGee argued that he always thought this way. Before Facebook, he said, he watched conspiracy-laden videos on YouTube. Facebook merely helped him find his people.

“People are engaging me, encouraging me to share what I think, but these are the inner workings of my mind,” he said. “I’ve been feeling this way for years. That’s why it’s so easy for me to make posts, because I’ve been suppressing this stuff forever.”

And yet when he talks about Facebook, he focuses on algorithms and optimization, not community or ideology. It’s worth considering: Would he be attempting to influence others so forcefully without Facebook’s incentives?

The Rails Doctrine 11 years ago

It's self, not __self__ (it has never been __self__). Double underscore names are used for special methods, which are typed relatively rarely, the most common probably being __init__.