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Using = for equality checking in SQL doesn't help with the occasional mistakes...

Many controversial Wikipedia articles are already protected in some ways. This is nothing new.

How do you hire programmers like that?

Zoning would help primarily in the highest-cost areas. The blog post doesn't specify it, but the problem is mainly in a few major metropolitan areas, not country-wide.

Voting has the possibility of changing zoning laws. For some reason it's just not happening. If these few areas in California and North-East had similar density to cities in other …

In the Nordic countries we have 2 factor authentication with your bank used as means of authentication. See for example BankId in Sweden. Tools like this reduce the use of SSN to a…

The main use case for rebase for me is to add automatic rebases on pull to the git config. Normally if you pull from the remote and have local commits not in the remote, you'll hav…

µtorrent 1.7, the newer releases became bloated with bullshit and have been too lazy to set up a new torrent client.

Practically nothing. Things that feel wrong will happen no matter what you do in all countries. The best option is just to live with the fact.