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Did Heroku make a mistake? Yes. Did they mislead and lie to their customers? Yes. But is it worth pursuing a class action lawsuit that could ultimately ruin them - if not financial…

Some replies to parent dispute the 'police state' moniker. Decide for yourself: (Source: http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/singap... . Points below are all dire…

That OP is cherrypicking is obvious, but his web shop example is particularly brazen. Google for 'django consulting' also turns up on first page: http://www.comfychairconsulting.co…

Linkbait with a main course of generalization and ample sides of selection bias. OP is a Python/Django shop -- if this is intended as a call to arms it is severely misguided. What …

My bad, just realized you aren't e-mail writer or npm admin. Thrown off by gist author. Deliberately exposing anything to the web should come with lots of... wait for it... deliber…

The e-mail heavily implies that the security breach was CouchDB's fault instead of those who were administering that Couch server. Deliberate passing the buck or accidental bad cho…

"Humans weren't meant to do that." You sound rather defeatist for someone who's on Hacker News . Here's a tip. Create a pattern of sorts, example follows: 1. Choose a keyboard sequ…

"Your posts in support of Apple are so breathless. I don't want to go all ad hom, but this is a little...much." At the time of writing, nirvana has written comments on this post to…

A biography is not a hagiography. If Gruber wants the latter, he can write one. He already has a lot of material for it.

You can watch The Daily Show on the site proper by setting the X-Forwarded-For header you send to '12.13.14.15'. For more details see http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/onath/…

You're right, and the name has already been chosen: Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR01981:@@@L&#3... ;

And your vacuous optimism is any better?

Don't encourage the laziness of those who ask for tldrs. While your intentions are good, ultimately you're still an enabler.

Tools are just means to an end. The OpenBSD devs can write better software with punch cards than you can with a modern language. Take your hipsterer-than-thou attitude and shove it…

note: submitter != OP