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Did Roethlisberger commit an ‘illegal use of cell phone’ violation?

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(Update 2: The words “probably not” have been removed from the headline on this post because, upon further review, the answer to the question is “almost certainly yes.” My bad for even considering the notion that the NFL was being truthful.)

A short video clip from last night’s Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore football game certainly appears to show Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger glancing at a cell phone and then stashing it in his pocket, which if true would constitute a violation of NFL rules governing electronic devices and would be called cheating if done by an employee of the New England Patriots.

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Should commit history be used to convey critical information to developers?

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rjzii asks:

During a meeting regarding the rollback of a third-party SDK from the latest version, it was noted that the SDK developers already announced in the commit history that the latest version should not be used.

Some developers argued that this was a bad practice and there should have been something either in the source file (i.e. ‘// Don’t upgrade SDK Version x.y.z, see ticket 1234’) or in a project level ‘README’ file. Others argued that since the commit history is part of the project documentation, it is an acceptable location for such information since we should all be reading it anyway.

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Does Facebook’s Slingshot commit true imagicide? Or is it another Snapchat?

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“Disappear forever” didn’t mean much when Snapchat said it. Neither Snapchat nor Facebook’s newly released Slingshot stops anybody from taking a screenshot or snapping a photo of the receiving device with another camera, for one thing.
Naked Security – Sophos

When should I make the first commit to source control?

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Stack Exchange

This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 90+ Q&A sites.

Kendall Frey Asks:

I’m never sure when a project is far enough along to first commit to source control. I tend to put off committing until the project is ‘framework-complete,’ and I primarily commit features from then on. (I haven’t done any personal projects large enough to have a core framework too big for this.) I have a feeling this isn’t best practice, though I’m not sure what could go wrong.

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