And that is how you handle things like this. He ponied up and took the hit. More importantly, he gave the back story. After years of reading so many circular psuedo-responsibility posts (by others) trying to squirm out of awkward situations, it's refreshing to see his thoroughness.

Good retraction. The plagiarism part further down in the article shouldn't be missed. The developer has significant character issues.

Discussion of the original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863

This is the right way to handle the situation like that, and kudos to the author for writing the second post.

This is also a reminder that people lie or just hide some part of the story all the time, and we as readers should question every story if it only presents an opinion of one side, and not the other's.

That being said, hearing Apple's own opinion is probably not what we could reasonably expect.

I have not that many things in life that I try to live by.

One is that when presented with contradictory evidence, evaluate it honestly and, if you evaluate it to be correct, in full or in part, change your belief freely and without apology.

The other is when you decide you have made a mistake, say so plainly and openly.

They often go together, but not always. I can’t speak to the author’s belief, but I will file this article under Epistles from Gruber to the internet because it is an inspiration to me.

I worry there will be another retraction on this post since it seems like a miscommunication occurred rather than having someone outright lie.