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Re:Tell HN: Login to unsubscribe is against Federal Law on Sunday September 09, 2012 @05:48PM (#4497121)
Gmail accepts multiple forms of email addresses for a single account. [email protected] is identical to [email protected]. I often get subscribed to email lists I don't want using a variant of Gmail address that I never use. Also, plenty of people using forwarding addresses; it may not be clear which address was the target.
Attempting to login to https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ is very slow and eventually gives an error message:

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Re:Top Things Every Software Engineer Should Know on Saturday May 05, 2012 @06:21AM (#3931820)
The errors I saw (before giving up) would not be caught by a spell check. I'll go so far as guessing that a blind spell check was run, with no human check on the corrections.
The app doesn't deal with corporate hierarchies. For example, it correctly identifies Cheerios as supporting SOPA, but not Gold Medal flour; each is labeled as "distributed by General Mills Sales".
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011) on Friday July 01, 2011 @05:44PM (#2720275)
Vivisimo, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA * Ruby on Rails 3.0 on JRuby/Tomcat * Java * C

http://vivisimo.com/about/careers.html

Re: Three Mobile-Software Rules on Saturday October 30, 2010 @01:15PM (#1851283)
"Crash-Only" is a great approach. So, why do Android phones take a long time to power down?