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  Please Give Us Your Email Password A number of people whose opinions I greatly respect have turned me on to Yelp over the last six months or so. Yelp is a community review site, and a great way to discover cool new places in whatever neighborhood you happen to be in. I've enjoyed using... Posted Jun 05 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: recipient, programmer, six months, yelp, hacker, treasure trove, email account, email contacts, email notifications, dozens, unfortunate position, pl, benefit of the doubt, account creation, identity theft, master password, neighborhood, web world

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  Your Session Has Timed Out How many times have you returned to your web browser to be greeted by this unpleasant little notification: Your session has timed out. Please sign in again. If you're anything like me, the answer is lots . What's worse is that you're usually... Posted Apr 16 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: privacy concerns, programmer, programmers, security feature, necessary evil, web interface, five minutes, http cookie, newborn babe, content type, web applications, text html, existence, protocol, session id, session timeouts, web request, web server, flavors, performance reasons

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  I {entity} Unicode These are available as bumper stickers and t-shirts : Here's my rhetorical question to you: why is this funny? The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) There Ain't... Posted Mar 27 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: advertisement, programmer, goodness, software developer, unicode, wikipedia, data dynamics, data relationships, character sets, bumper stickers, rhetorical question, absolute minimum

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  Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? I've been a multiple monitor enthusiast since the dark days of Windows Millennium Edition . I've written about the manifold joys of many-monitor computing a number of times over the last four years: Multiple Monitors and Productivity Multiple... Posted Mar 17 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: fellow developers, surprise, programmer, different computer, true believer, paradox, nec, auspices, multiple monitor, multiple monitors, productivity, dark days, bill of rights, spreadsheets, inch displays, inch monitors, ammunition, university of utah, windows millennium edition, computer configurations

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  A Question of Programming Ethics From the ACM Code of Ethics : As an ACM member I will Contribute to society and human well-being. Avoid harm to others. Be honest and trustworthy. Be fair and take action not to discriminate. Honor property rights including copyrights and patent. Give... Posted Mar 07 2008, 02:27 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: source code, reflector, programmer, brooks, google, email, confidentiality, important information, peek, john terry, inbox, what the heck, benefit of the doubt, security question, acm code of ethics, acm member, functionality, gmail account, intellectual property, code of ethics

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  I love it when good accountanting girls go geek Erik Mork, C++ and .NET programmer extraordinaire and bright guy in his own right, has subverted my sister-in-law to programming, and the pair of them are now opening the doors of their new company, Silver Bay Labs , with a series of podcasts on Silverlight... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:21 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: bright guy, programmer, sister in law, podcasts, silver bay, silverlight, enterprise consulting, mork, xml services, mentoring, doors

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  The Years of Experience Myth I recently received an email from Andrew Stuart of the Australian firm Flat Rate Recruitment . Andrew related their technical phone screen process, which is apparently quite similar to the one outlined in Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right . I'm... Posted Feb 07 2008, 11:59 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: hands on experience, job, programmer, security application, andrew stuart, anecdote, interview room, colossal waste, email, software engineer, denial of service, denial of service attacks, network security, operating systems, memory managers, recruitment, sophisticated applications, amiga emulator

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  Of Fibers and Continuations Dave explains Ruby fibers , as they're called in Ruby 1.9. Now, before I get going here, let me explain my biases up front: in the Windows world, we've had fibers for near on to half-decade, I think, and they're basically programmer-managed... Posted Jan 10 2008, 05:28 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: c bindings, win32 api, programmer, different meaning, cooperative tasks, generators, decade, ruby, api version, time c, operating system, sql server team, fibers, biases, continuation, execution, data structure, housekeeping, starters, python

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  Size Is The Enemy Steve Yegge's latest, Code's Worst Enemy , is like all of his posts: rich, rewarding, and ridiculously freaking long . Steve doesn't write often, but when he does, it's a doozy. As I mentioned a year ago , I've started a cottage industry... Posted Dec 23 2007, 11:00 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: half a million, wyvern, programmer, programmers, multiplayer game, death star, java code, software development project, developers, steve yegge, computer scientist, rational reaction, rational software, shorter form, loc, worst enemy, privilege, doozy, crowd, open source