his strategy is to maintain a few "core" blogs that are completely under his control, but cross-post across lots of other sites that might have greater reach, but where he has less control.. so it's more a mirror than a blog.
how is this pronounced?
I once mentioned this in a meeting and got pronunciation nitpicked for allegedly not saying it correctly -
but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
Good,point about aging into it. When you are younger you don’t care what the neighbors think really, your only social positions that count are amongst your friends and at school so you don’t really grok where Violet is coming from it’s all just boring old people without that.
I’ve lived in an English-French community my whole life, and AFAIK, Robert’s Rules are mainly used by English organizations. All French orgs I know of use some variation of the “Code Morin” instead.
I’m francophone and I pronounce “Robert” the English way.
I have definitely never heard anyone pronounce the "Robert" of "Robert's Rules" in the French way. If I encountered that, I would find it abhorrently pretentious.
Just to point out, if you refer to "the Oxford dictionary", people are likely to think you mean the immensely prestigious Oxford English Dictionary, not the completely irrelevant Oxford Learner's Dictionaries.
the small azure project that got canned by Azure I was working on, credit card was the only way to pay, and Azure suspended my employers Azure account with no explanation why (though it appears in hindsight to be credit card related), but they refused to explain why. this victim blaming gaslighting is ridiculous.
after Azure sunk my employers project with no recourse or discussion allowed, I always advise everyone I meet to run far away from Azure if they value a reliable service.
I think when the parent commend said "no discussion allowed", it was in the context of "no recourse", not that they got some sort of a pseudo-gag-order.
I.e., basically meaning that Azure refused having any further discussions between then and the parent user, as attempts to resolve that specific case. Not that they dont't allow the parent comment user to talk about it with others on HN (or elsewhere).
I dug into the archives, every attempt to discuss or resolve the issue got shut down with the boilerplate text of:
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Greetings for the day!
I have received an update from Account Research Team: As part of our strong commitment to the protection of our customers and our interest in preserving the quality and integrity of the Azure Marketplace, we perform supplementary reviews of accounts which may exhibit irregular or suspicious activity. Your account was selected for one of these reviews and after careful consideration, this account will remain closed.
Please understand that we keep security checks like these in place in order to protect the quality and integrity of the Azure Marketplace
The ridiculous thing.. my employer makes huge use of Office365? We signed up for Azure via a slightly different path with no issues.. but I know this could be pure chance it just happens to work as the service could be teetering on a precipice of arbitrary policy application and the rug could be pulled from under it any second with the same infuratingly cheery account deletion..
