And here we go again with the title changes. Dude, whoever you are, would you please f%^#ng stop? This is not helping. Saying "Drupal Developer" clearly lets anybody reading this site know that the person in question is "one of us." Changing it now means that the only people who will pay attention are the ones who happen to know who Aaron Winborn is.

Original title: "A Drupal Developer is Dying and Needs Your Help."

The new title reduces the information and context about the article by several orders of magnitude, which is a tragedy given the gravity of the situation.

To all who read this comment, please upvote the OP so that it stays on the front page longer and signals "must read" with its large number of upvotes.

This heavy-handed re-titling of HN posts has got to stop. If any incident can clearly demonstrate why, this is it.

While I appreciate getting my vacations paid like that, the article shows a bit how Americans vs other continents see the vacations.

Here in Europe the only people I know that dare to have any contact with their company during vacations are usually labeled as workaholic.

We appreciate our 22-30 days vacations, without any contact with the employer while enjoying friends and family.

The software is a "steaming pile of shit"? Of course, it was built by IBM Federal. Building software for U.S. gov't contractors is an awful, awful experience. The end result is the talented leave as soon as they can, because working in a red tape environment with ridiculous Information Assurance (that's gov't speak for their own ludicrous security theater that is their IT security process) policies makes you want to kill yourself.

My wife has a friend who barely made it out of high school, believes in psychics, believes that the U.S. gives an annual payment to England for our freedom (this was revealed on the 4th. I spit out my beer laughing, but then I realized she was serious). This person works as an Information Assurance person in charge of making sure software is "secure." She knows nothing about software, but she has passed a few tests, courtesy of prep courses which guarantee you can get the cert. Because she was in the Air Force for 6 months (she got pregnant and was honorably discharged a couple of months after her first duty), she is a veteran and is therefore fully qualified to classify software as secure. Or in reality, defense contractors have to meet quotas for hiring veterans, and they put her in the easiest butts in seats job they could find, IT security.

This, my friends, is the system you have to deal with in the federal fucking government.