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		<title>Google marks bugs it doesn&#8217;t want to deal with as &#8216;obsolete&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Google has a habit of marking bugs it doesn&#8217;t want to deal with as obsolete. According to Google&#8217;s own Life of a Bug explainer, a bug categorized as &#8220;Obsolete&#8221; means, Obsolete: Similar to Unreproducible, but with a reasonable certainty that the bug did exist in the reported version but was already fixed in a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently Google has a habit of marking bugs it doesn&#8217;t want to deal with as obsolete. According to Google&#8217;s own <a href="https://source.android.com/source/life-of-a-bug.html">Life of a Bug</a> explainer, a bug categorized as &#8220;Obsolete&#8221; means,</p>
<blockquote><p>Obsolete: Similar to Unreproducible, but with a reasonable certainty that the bug did exist in the reported version but was already fixed in a later release.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230;which is a lie. I give two pieces of solid evidence for why this is a lie.<br />
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<strong>Exhibit A.</strong> <a href="https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38282">An egregious bug with the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) on Android</a> that has been <a href="http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/46315/not-all-files-are-visible-over-mtp">reproducible by hundreds, if not thousands of users</a>, on practically all Android phones, and has been reported since late 2012, and which still exists to this day in the latest Android Marshmallow, has been marked as &#8220;Obsolete&#8221; in 2014. Now you tell me if this bug is either &#8220;unreproducible&#8221; or &#8220;with a reasonable certainty &#8230; fixed in a later release&#8221;? Persistent users have filed a <a href="https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=195362">new bug report</a> that is now &#8220;Assigned.&#8221; Let&#8217;s see what <em>life outcome</em> this <em>incarnation</em> of a bug has.</p>
<p><strong>Exhibit B.</strong> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/2on1fe/google_closed_11889_android_bugs_last_48_hours/">According to Reddit</a>, Google closed 11889 bugs (actually 11879) within a couple of days with the status &#8220;Obsolete&#8221; in December 2014, the above-mentioned bug among them. In comparison, the total number of bugs closed in the same period was only 11988, so this was a massive purge. Now, it is not humanly possible to evaluate nearly twelve thousand bugs in two days to determine whether &#8220;with a reasonable certainty &#8230; the bug did exist &#8230; but was already fixed.&#8221; The logical conclusion is therefore <em>nobody bothered to look at these bugs</em> and <em>nobody bothered to triage</em> when they reached potential end-of-life. Sounds like a broken bug handling system to me.</p>
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		<title>where dreams are made of</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm, never noticed this. In the song Empire State of Mind, the chorus has what some people consider a grammatical mistake. In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of There&#8217;s nothing you can&#8217;t do Now you&#8217;re in New York These streets will make you feel brand new Big lights will inspire you Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm, never noticed this. In the song Empire State of Mind, the chorus has what some people consider a grammatical mistake.</p>
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<p><em>In New York, concrete jungle <u>where dreams are made of</u><br />
There&#8217;s nothing you can&#8217;t do<br />
Now you&#8217;re in New York<br />
These streets will make you feel brand new<br />
Big lights will inspire you<br />
Let&#8217;s hear it for New York, New York, New York</em></p>
<p>Some people consider &#8220;of&#8221; to be ungrammatical here. Some <a href="http://rap.genius.com/Jay-z-empire-state-of-mind-lyrics#note-226160">lyric transcripts</a> even leave it off. I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s there, can&#8217;t pretend it&#8217;s not there.<br />
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Some think it&#8217;s <a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/missmarm/2010/08/18/where-dreams-are-made-of-wait">hip hop&#8217;s liberty</a> with syllables. Hip hop may be loose with syllables, but I don&#8217;t believe there were no other choices. Some propose that Alicia Keys <a href="http://coolingpierecords.blogspot.com/2010/01/empire-state-of-mind-makes-no-sense.html">crossed her wires</a> during recording and it should be &#8220;made true&#8221; from the rhyming scheme. Two plosives contacting doesn&#8217;t make for good articulation on the long note, so, unlikely. Another quip <a href="https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/2585856">has it as</a> &#8220;where dreams are Madoff.&#8221; Most brilliantly, Reddit <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ad6gx/dear_jayz_and_alicia_keys_its_either_where_dreams/">proposes</a> that it introduces the next line as a dependent clause. There is some evidence from phrasing to support that and at least it&#8217;s internally logical.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, I believe the most likely explanation is some kind of extended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma">zeugma</a>, combining &#8220;concrete jungle where dreams are made&#8221; with the idiomatic &#8220;the stuff that dreams are made of.&#8221; Besides, the lead-in by Jay-Z, &#8220;&#8230;that I&#8217;m most definitely from&#8230;&#8221; already clashes, in both timing and meaning, with &#8220;&#8230;in New York&#8221; of the chorus, so it&#8217;s not like there is no precedence for this kind of wordplay (though usually contrapuntal, as here). Whether it&#8217;s intentional or mistaken, I don&#8217;t know, but by getting multiple meanings across, it&#8217;s accepted as a syntactic pun. Maybe that&#8217;s why few people have flagged it.</p>
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