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Aside: Please for the love of God do not force emails to be unique and also require separate accounts per person (especially if you previously did not). This causes no end of irritation for elderly couples who only use a family email, and they WILL switch to your competitors (and I will help them do so) if yours gets in the way of them sharing like they always used to. See also https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-ema…

Inspired by Falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers[1] and Falsehoods programmers believe about emails[2]. We wanted to share some of the data we have seen from analyzing signups at scale and insights from great companies like Hubspot. It is by no means complete, so please share anything you believe is missing. [1] https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHOODS.md [2]https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-ema…

Wow. I ran this archive back in the 90s, when I was a student at NMSU and it was one of my ancillary duties when I worked part-time for the IT department. I wasn't a fan of OS/2 myself but I appreciated how much of a community there was around it and how excited people were to continue to use it. When I inherited it the website was put together with duct tape and paperclips (and Comic Sans), and the files were pretty inconsistently-organized. At one point I spent a few months building a new website and tooling to make it easier to manage and then completely reorganized the archive, and while other students replaced the underlying code over the years (eventually replacing my not-very-great C++-based bespoke-CGI system with a much more robust PHP-based one), my design was largely intact, as was the file structure I'd established. I'm kind of amazed it kept running for this long, but this is a personal end of an era for me. I still hold a lot of nostalgia for it and my time working on it. EDIT: I wrote some more detailed thoughts on my blog. http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/14299-Hobbes-OS-2-Archive-An-end-of-an-era

For some reason your link didn't work, showed bees buzzing with 403. I think this is the link you wanted: https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-ema…

Never specifically heard about this terminology until now, but after looking, yeah, I can see why ppl prefer 'artificial' keys to natural ones. From the animal shelter example, for people it uses email as the 'natural' key, which immediately runs up against 1,2,3 and 7 in https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-ema…

See also https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-ema…

Yes, this is something were facebook excels at, but it can also create in-group and out-group dynamics. A possible federated solution: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/6128-Federated-access-control-with-Atom-and-…

The source post (https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers) is a bit more readable. The list looks like, well, a list.

According to the Topaz developer[1], it was cracked over a year ago; apparently the Topaz algorithm was, like .azw before it, trivially bypassed by prodding at the KindleForPC application. Furthermore, Topaz is a rarely-used specialty format. It has existed for at least three years (based on the blog's date and text), but AZW/mobi continues to be by far the dominant format for purchased Kindle books. [1] http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/e/2010/01/07-interesting_topaz_drm_developmen…

off the top of my head, http://z80.info/ http://mta.info/ http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/ edit: I still think .info should have been .nfo and been restricted to ANSI art.