Note: This kind of has less to do with your comment than I thought it was going to, but I feel it's still worth submitting. I think we as society will soon nee

Note: This kind of has less to do with your comment than I thought it was going to, but I feel it's still worth submitting. I think we as society will soon need to learn how to "forgive and forget". As technology becomes more ubiquitous, we are quickly getting to the point of having the majority of our time in this world recorded and stored permanently. Every mistake, every poor decision, every fashion fad, every comment, every choice seared into the never forgetting internet. We will need to move away from the idea that people can't change, and that something a person did 10 years ago means anything significant today. We should celebrate changing opinions, not attack someone for "waffling". We should be giving significantly less weight to actions and opinions far in the past, and more to things that happen more recently. There are commits on some projects i've worked on that I absolutely wouldn't word that way now. There are silly jokes and things like it in messages that I wouldn't do now. But my past is my past, and it honestly says very little about my future. I know people that are consistent with some things throughout their whole lives, and others that change drastically over the course of a year. It won't be pretty, but we will need to learn as a species that people make mistakes, and that shouldn't be a lifelong never-ending mark against someone, and in some cases the opposite is true! I lost a significant amount of money years ago because a hard drive died and my backup hard drive died as well, I now have a militant backup strategy which I am unwavering on because of that experience. I don't think we should shy away from tools like this, in fact I think they will be more important in the future. Expose people's "skeletons" that are hidden in plain sight. Show the world that it's not a big deal. It will hurt at first, but hopefully over time society will begin to change course, and "character assassination" style headlines will be a thing of the past when "Person did something bad 10 years ago" isn't a big deal since they have 9 years of "newer" history showing they are not the same as they were. People fear the unknown, people fear change. Showing them that the "foul programmer" is no different than they are is (in my opinion) a better way of dealing with the problem than hiding it and hoping the public doesn't find out.