flip-flop

It tends to flip-flop between extremes. This applies to pretty much any field.

No doubt all the Apple fanboys will now be rushing to flip-flop and explain why a 4" screen was the right decision all along.

The private ISP's argument is a perfect flip-flop and doesn't really deserve addressing.

Anyone that changes their mind due to facts is guilty of a "flip-flop". We need to start promoting leaders that have a track record of empathy for people that are unlike them.

This is a fairly breathtaking flip-flop, and the headline is quite accurate. > Like Comcast, even if Google says no, just go ahead and do it anyway.

Anyone care to comment on FBs Max Kelly, head of security flip-flop employment between FB and NSA? How can that guy be trusted with anything?

Not the flip-flop in the article you're pointing out, but I've often wonder when the switch happened in general. Old articles and even TV[1] will use Internet without the definite article.

You can't flip-flop more than that. I can't wait until Facebook incorporates their new ideas into the product and puts them out of business - assuming that this new business actually exists in the first place.

Afaik there is no performance hit in overwriting a flip-flop in memory that already has a value stored but there is a huge penalty for hitting a disk. So I'd be quite happy to have all my RAM utilized all the time if I have 0 swapping.

It doesn't show up in ios settings "allow these apps to use your facebook account", and it didn't seem to do the custom app-url-protocol flip-flop over to the main facebook app. Or is it as simple as a shared keychain entry because the app is signed by the same publisher as the main app?

It doesn't matter to me if their flip-flop makes them seem a little scatterbrained, because the decision to keep both services bundled together makes the most sense. Perhaps they realized that if they spin off their DVD business that there would be blood in the water and the likes of Amazon Prime and Blockbuster would feast at their expense.

Their damage control is just that; their flip-flop is just due to the pressure and not the result of some revelation on their part. There's a difference between piling on someone after they admit they're wrong, and discontinuing business with a company after they are forced to recant a very unpopular statement.

There's the chance that he'd flip-flop again, but don't get your hopes high - he made an active effort to extend Bush's medical marijuana dispensary crackdowns instead of ending them altogether, so there's not really much evidence to suggest that he'll change his mind again. [1] Compared at least to Bush Jr. and Clinton, which already takes us back 20 years.

Found another example: dynamic stages in pipelines, where rather than using a flip-flop or even an entire latch, you just rely on the capacitance of an input to hold the previous value for long enough that the next stage in the pipeline can do its job. Works as long as you clock it fast enough, fails when you try to single-step the chip.