EDIT (March 08 2012): This post got a lot of feedback on Hacker News and Reddit. I’d like to thank all the people on their positive and constructive thoughts and address some of the feedback. First, there was some really good advice on advanced usage of TODOs, such as using tools for tracking them systematically and using different TODO tags (such as TODO, FIXME, TBD, and XXX) to indicate the rele