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I had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee par…

Soma.fm is my go to for internet radio. I personally find Mission Control the perfect thing to relax my mind and just zone out. For the uninitiated, it's a blend of down tempo atmo…

This assumes that it is known that the password is four random words. The security of this method hinges on the fact that that information is not known.

This sounds like state based programming. IIRC this was a moderately popular way of programming games in the past. The resulting code is somewhat monolithic however, hard to mainta…

You could always scrape plain text from the PDF files. It might even be better, since I imagine some books in plain text may be outdated. I did have K&R C and SICP in plain text, b…

I'm not in a place to find the link, but 37signals has a very good article about this. Start right from the core function (for example if the competitor is photoshop, make paint). …

Any IRC channel would work (##programming or ##python for example.) However, I wouldn't overthink it. There's really only two things you have to worry about when naming classes, va…

I understand it's beyond the discussion here, however, I'd really appreciate a link to that study. It sounds very interesting.