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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…

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 …

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 whos…

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 injur…

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 tryin…

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 prob…

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 n…

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 publi…

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.

What annoys me to no end is that the counter-argument to the "Google is smart enough to build it" canard is legal, not technological. Child porn is illegal in this country, full st…

Actually, he probably didn't have any other option to watch the game on TV. NYC (and especially Manhattan) residents very rarely have a choice of cable providers. If you're in a Ti…

I'll believe they "OPPOSE" SOPA when I see a commercial during SportsCenter with Danica Patrick talking about the evils of internet censorship and telling us to contact our Congres…

There are lots of people on the internet with lots of money. The internet needs to lobby as hard as the MPAA does.

Lamar Smith needs to be sent a very clear message, in the form of a landslide defeat in the next election to someone along the lines of Darrell Issa. What would it take to make tha…

I'll believe it when I hear it from Regretsy...according to their blog ( http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/06/breaking-news/ ), they know as much about the resolution as we do...

You say that like it's a bad thing!

This doesn't make a lot of sense for Manhattan, because the grid doesn't have a center point; there's no numbering convention for streets south of Houston or avenues east of York/A…

Sort of. It does have some publicly-traded shares but the Ochs-Sulzberger family has majority control and their shares are not publicly tradable.

At the very least, a successful criminal prosecution would make you feel better. And it would likely advance your cause...I'm not sure if an extortion conviction would be admissibl…