The comments people post on The Consumerist articles are among the most blame-the-customer-first I’ve ever seen. Is it unfair to judge a blog based on the comments? Perhaps, but it’s hard for me not to when the pro-corporate theme is so overwhelming.

Text you place in code that you know you’ll search for later. One common example is “XXX“. If I have to write a quick-n-dirty hack to get around a problem, I’ll usually put an XXX comment near it. When I’m done writing the code, I’ll recursively grep for XXX to see if there’s anything I [...]