What I Hate About Working At Facebook

Re:What I Hate About Working At Facebook by cbs on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:13AM (#4386013)

But in dealing with language here, there are subtle differences in connotation between the two options.

We're not dealing in language, formal symbols exist to remove the ambiguity of language.

Plain and simple, the symbols used don't mean what the poster thinks they mean.

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Re:What I Hate About Working At Facebook by hackinthebochs on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:18AM (#4386348)

The symbols are simply shorthand. Trying to parse it as a mathematical equation was your mistake, not his.

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Re:What I Hate About Working At Facebook by cbs on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:44AM (#4386478)

Pies and cactus.

Jackalope.

If you read the above as anything other than a nuanced and well reasoned response thats your mistake, not mine.

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