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Re:Facebook was down by cpayne on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:35AM (#7915184)
I can tell you my website goes down far more frequently (my fault) than Facebook's does
Re:Facebook was down by jacquesm on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:02AM (#7915275)
So now you're down when you make a mistake and when facebook makes a mistake.
Re:Facebook was down by feider on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:22AM (#7915316)
there is a bug in your logic. Correct operator is "or".
Re:Facebook was down by jacquesm on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:35AM (#7915348)
Programming use of logical operators and regular speech is not compatible. I agree that this is a bug in the English language but this is a forum, not a computer program.
Re:Facebook was down by blueskin_ on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:59AM (#7915517)
I'm having a bit of trouble finding the maintainer. Possibly OED, but they don't have much in the way of API documentation and I still haven't found the revision history for the source to submit a patch.
Re:Facebook was down by acheron on Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:01AM (#7915628)
Let me know when you find them. Someone removed Þ from the alphabet a few revisions back but I've got a patch to add it back in.
Re:Facebook was down by partomniscient on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:43AM (#7915484)
I too would like to deprecate 'or' in favour of 'ior' and 'xor'. Not sure whether A. A. Milne would like it though?

Today's unofficial but fun to pronounce related word is "specificity".

Re:Facebook was down by waterhouse on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:44AM (#7915369)
In this case "and" means "in addition to". "when you make a mistake" describes one set of situations, "when facebook makes a mistake" describes another set, and the "and" acts as a union operator. Nothing illogical here, though you might argue that English is ambiguous.
Re:Facebook was down by theop on Thursday June 19, 2014 @06:04AM (#7915409)
Even if I don't know you I fell pretty confident that is more probable that you are messing up with the login than FB. So the changes of a downtime are lower. The business value it's another topic...