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egoebelbecker | 11 years ago | on: Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online

On Yelp's review page:

"Your trust is our top concern, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews."

And yet see we stories like this about Yelp all the time. Yelp reviews aren't worth the paper they are not printed on.

egoebelbecker | 11 years ago | on: Source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer

It appears to be the code for the controls:

# THE KEYBOARD AND DISPLAY SYSTEM PROGRAM OPERATES UNDER EXECUTIVE

# CONTROL AND PROCESSES INFORMATION EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE AGC AND THE

# COMPUTER OPERATOR. THE INPUTS TO THE PROGRAM ARE FROM THE KEYBOARD,

# FROM INTERNAL PROGRAM, AND FROM THE UPLINK.

I think it's just someone with a sense of humor.

egoebelbecker | 11 years ago | on: 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings

#11. Skip meeting. Actually get work done.

egoebelbecker | 12 years ago | on: Why Stack Overflow Sucks (2012)

I see this often too, usually when Google brings me in via the "duplicate" question. I end up steered to a question that is kinda close, but no cigar.

But these moderators have a job to do. If they allow too many "duplicates" SO might run out of drive space or something.