Ben Werdmuller
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Picking a great password
I was trying to find a simple, brief guide to picking great passwords, and came up short. Hopefully this simple advice is useful: Don’t pick a password; pick a pass phrase. Include letters of both cases, numbers, and punctuation characters. For bonus points, use “special” characters like é and î. Don’t pick something you’ll have…
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Recipes for startup failure
Paul Graham’s essay, How to Get Startup Ideas, is long but very much worth reading. Normally I’d pull a quote, but it’s a valuable piece from start to finish, and it’s hard to know what to choose. Go read it, then come back. He makes clear that, more than anything else, if you want to…
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Learning in hallways (with APIs)
I can’t let Clay Shirky’s piece, Napster, Udacity and the Academy, go un-commented-on: Open systems are open. For people used to dealing with institutions that go out of their way to hide their flaws, this makes these systems look terrible at first. But anyone who has watched a piece of open source software improve, or…
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