It's an OSX thing*. I noticed this when I copy-pasted some code to another dev in Slack. OSX automatically replaces the ' ' and " " to be the 'matching pair' text characters.

System Preferences->Keyboard->Text->Turn off 'Use smart quotes and dashes'

*And perhaps other software does this, too

Because it happened. In 2013 it wasn't the truth, now it is. It's correct to say that it seems like the natural progression of things, especially in hindsight, and yet, in 2013 the shift hadn't happened yet. To answer your question, that is why this is news.

I'll be honest, my reading is that he's writing it to deflate the groundswell of support for Ahmed. He straw-man's Ahmed's statement that he invented it, as you describe, and then goes on to talk about how the teachers actually weren't responding absurdly. It's an article intended to give points of support to those who want to argue against the commonly expressed opinion that Ahmed was targeted absurdly and unfairly. It does this partly by whittling away at Ahmed's 'credibility' as a young inventor.

It's definitely contrary to my viewpoint, but I think that's what's going on here.

Only if you download it to the toaster using your Amazon Echo..

Why would it? And to extend that question: why would it for free?

Commenting to remove incorrect moderation. It would be nice if there was an 'undo' function that stayed active for a minute or something to help prevent accidental clicks.

Thanks! Would I be able to find an index of the tone numbers you're using somewhere?

I'm running on a Late-2011 MBP and also had some similar frame rate issues. Now, perhaps there's some underlying UNIX/LINUX issues going on but I at least wanted to you to know you're not the only one having those issues.

Cut your losses and just peace! You'll be waiting for a while for a time refund...

Good point and explanation. So the question becomes, what is the equivalent law in Canada? And can RightsCorp be prosecuted under it?

Heh, that's because the longer you spend on a persons profile and looking through their photo albums the more likely it is those people will show up on your newsfeed. All that time spent looking at their pictures tells Facebook those people are important to you so it presents you with their other posts, too.

So then you tell the GP 'nice falsehood there' and then go on to succinctly prove the truth of his statement? There's some trenchant conservative logic right there.

Reply to remove incorrect moderation.

They already have this. It's called: Canada.

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Look, I wholeheartedly agree with the idea that a judge should have no amicable ties to companies that have a vested interest in the outcome of various court cases that judge will hear, but the GP's post is not about that. The GP's post is about judges having a sufficient level of technical knowledge related to a case to be able to judge the technical merits of the arguments presented and hence to be able to understand fully the ramifications of the outcomes of his judgement. The GP's post is _not_ about a judge with this experience _because_ they worked at a company entrenched in the industry about which the technical knowledge is required.

Here are a couple of examples related to yours to help show the difference. If the Awesome Judge Alsup's experience in coding had been acquired at Microsoft (or perhaps Oracle) then the GP's comment and your post's statement would logically follow. Or, if you modify your example to be about a judge who is assigned a fracking case who then goes out and researches the technical details of fracking in order to reach a cogent conclusion not biased by the lawyers' pro/against castings, then you have an example that is very close to what Awesome Judge Alsup has done. Or perhaps if the judge's backyard hobby is fracking and then he is assigned a fracking case, though your example falls down there because many people code as a hobby (or at least can) and nobody fracks for fun.

I think your post is a good-natured misunderstanding, though one of your ancestor comments about you praising 'ignorance over knowledge' hits home pretty hard. As the OP states, judges having in-depth technical knowledge about their cases (or even any knowledge is better than none) is definitely a good thing. Also, as you state, judges having a vested interest in a certain outcome because of pre-existing industry ties is a bad thing. No, they are not related here.