Interesting Things
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How To Scale a Development Team
As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team.
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Portable Ideas
And from time to time, if your idea is sufficiently portable, it will escape the bubble and you will have done your part to change the world
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Reducing bad signup emails with mailcheck.js
The jQuery plugin that suggests a right domain when your users misspell it in an email address.
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What should every programmer know about security? - Stack Overflow
Never trust user's input. Not even if it's your Grandmother
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Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At 15:30:08 UTC on 4 December 292,277,026,596 AD, the Unix time stamp will exceed the largest value that can be held in a signed 64-bit integer.[85]
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Complication is What Happens When You Try to Solve a Problem You Don't Understand | SIGPWNED
As you’re sitting down for a coding session and reading your code to get it back into your head, if it takes you longer than about 10 minutes to really get going, your code’s too complicated. Take the opportunity to make it simpler.
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mattwilliamson/arduino-sms-alarm · GitHub
An Arduino based burglar alarm that sends an SMS when motion is detected. It will send an SMS to you every 30 minutes while motion is detected (configurable).
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CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering | Onextrapixel - Web Design & Development Online Magazine
When coding CSS, one of the best ways to ensure your code runs smoothly on older browsers and slow computers is to write your CSS efficiently for browser rendering, this way your site takes less resource and memory from the user’s computer and therefore runs smoother.
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Understanding database normalisation - Delan Azabani
Database normalisation is the process of arranging the layout of a database's fields and tables with the aim of minimising dependency and redundancy.
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Ignore your e-mail for more productive, less stressful workday
Ignoring your e-mail may be essential to making your work pace less frenetic, according to a study done of workers at a scientific research center.