Just to add some actual cases, there was the $6.5 million settlement by Lowe’s Home Centers as well as a FedEx Ground case, where the idea of "1099ing an LLC" did not protect them.
"Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Kansas Supreme Court both held that FedEx Ground had misclassified employees as independent contractors who were operating as business entities or subcontracted additional routes to other drivers."
I believe the AccessExclusive is only if you are setting to NOT NULL, such as "ALTER TABLE my_table ADD COLUMN my_col boolean NOT NULL DEFAULT false"
We were just down for 56 hours due to our 3rd party platform vendor applying that type of update.
AFAICT the only workaround is to do it in steps: set the DEFAULT, fill existing rows with the default, then apply the NOT NULL constraint (which will still lock it for a full table scan to check the validity of the constraint).
But keeping the same UX is harmful in this situation -- on SMS it's a common pattern to use text commands, but in the desktop context you'd never expect it (and the commands don't make sense).
I'll be happy when someone else writes an 'I'm leaving Google design because' rant other than Bowman's from 2009. That single post is probably pretty tired from all the constant traffic to it every time this meme comes up.
The fact that the file is HackersNews.jad instead of HackerNews.jad will lead to a lot of typos if people don't click the link (clicking it didn't work for me).
Why a Rubiks cube instead of an orange HN or something?
My Curve threw the Index 0 >= 0 error, I guess I'll have to "contact my mobile service provider to get my latest APN settings." Though I don't know why.
The "article posting and sharing website" space seems really really crowded, and the users coming from Twitter and Reddit may just be article-sharing-site-ed out. Perhaps focus on what makes you different (better) than the rest.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7pNJ9aQxRMrWAnkmf/thank-you-...