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If you're in danger of getting fired over a commit mistake, you have more and bigger problems than this article can fix.

These are good tips, nonetheless.

The iOS App Store does the same thing with changing the rules in the middle of the game, but it is not subject to potential irrelevance because it is the only place to get software for iOS devices. So the obvious solution for Apple is to make the Mac App Store the only place to get software for MacOS.

I'm actually a little surprised this didn't happen in 10.8.

If every user makes the same error, it isn't user error...

Am I the only one who thinks Carreon wants to be the new Jack Thompson?

They need these sort of things to cover their bases in case the real reason for firing you isn't something they'd want to explain to anyone outside the company.

(At least that was the case the one time I was fired.)

I don't know that it's possible to make such a comparison, since the people who are fighting for these intrusive government checks and databases ARE religious terrorists.

Ok, now I don't feel so bad about having worked on a system that was confounded by people having the letter ñ in their name. (Surprisingly, it had no problem with someone else whose middle initial is the number 8.)

It could very easily be real. I was in a Fantasy Football league on Yahoo a few years ago, and there was a player named Keith Null who played briefly after another player was injured. His name just showed up as Keith.

When AOL first started allowing screen names longer than 8 characters, I knew someone who registered the name "My Documents". That got some ... interesting emails from people trying to save their downloads.

I'm in the process of learning Backbone and just read about Meteor, so I might be completely wrong on this. But it seems like Backbone and Meteor are trying to solve different problems, and aren't mutually exclusive. Backbone is server-agnostic, and Meteor is somewhat client-agnostic, so you could use Meteor to do the data synchronization and automatic updating, while structuring your client app using Backbone.

He wasn't cracking their DRM so that he could watch content he purchased at his leisure on the device of his choice, or so that the information could be free, or anything of that nature. He was cracking their DRM to put a competitor out of business.

Nice attempt at a straw-man argument though.

Having worked for both a content farm and a news organization, I'm not sure what is so revolutionary about this. The content farm I used to work for was making semi-automated publishing decisions based on future popularity of the content over a year ago...it was only a matter of time before news organizations got into that game.

If they're going to try to put actual numbers on the pageviews, that might be new and interesting, but it doesn't seem like it would be more useful than relative rankings. It matters that Story B is going to get more pageviews than Story A or Story C, but it doesn't really matter by how much if the goal is simply to draw traffic in the most efficient way.

If the goal is to change the future, than actual numbers become more useful. If Story B is only ahead of Story A by a small margin, and News Org has an interest in pushing Story A but not Story B, giving Story A top billing could swing the balance...

This isn't a partisan thing. Some Democrats pretend not to support SOPA/PIPA as well.

Why do I have the feeling that he's still going to vote for it when it hits the floor?

GOOD CALL. This is why I should not post on HN while waiting for my tests to run.