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  1. I am curious if anyone has any techniques they use to deliberately practice programming. I'm familiar with the "dive in" methodology, so please don't recommend "just start building something."

  2. I've seen many comments in recent discussions of Bitcoin links charging that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. I had a look at the definition of a Ponzi scheme on Wikipedia. It's not entirely clear to me that Bitcoin is a…

  3. Is science fiction dying? (mobile.salon.com)
  4. One of my projects recently got some press. Some new users that signed up offered to help out with the project. It is not open source. I have no budget to pay anyone, and would like to maintain control over the project.…

  5. http://motodiaryapp.com This is my attempt at making a minimalist, secure daily journaling app. It uses client-side javascript-based encryption to ensure that no-one (not even sysadmins) can read your entries except…

  6. Get Your ZumoCast T-Shirt (blog.zumodrive.com)
  7. Over the past few months, a shift in the popular content showing up on Hacker News has occurred. More and more stories are blog posts catering specifically to hacker news readers. True or False? If this is true, I'm not…

  8. I've seen many arguments where one person will say "That's confusing," without giving a lot of reasoning for why it might be confusing. Often times people who call something confusing understand how the feature works,…

  9. I frequently have several branches that I've yet to merge into master. I've been been keeping track of them in the form of a list of branch names in a text file. As I merge them in to master, I remove them from the…

  10. How Your Brain Creates God (newscientist.com)
  11. One thing that I have never quite grasped about the concept of bottom up programming is how to come up with the most basic components of a program without doing some kind of top down analysis. Perhaps I can illustrate…

  12. Targeted Languages (blog.jayfields.com)
  13. Vim: Registers (viming.blogspot.com)
  14. Use YAML in Your iPhone App (loglibrarian.blogspot.com)