OAuth or OTP to email comes to mind for now.

I cannot wait to see how you'd explain that to your 93-year-old great-grandfather.

I was in Fx Private Browsing. I spent about fifteen minutes trying to figure out why I had no red square!

I like to think that our programming philosophies aren't carved in stone. (KISS, DRY, YAGNI, etc.)

To quote Captain Barbossa: ... the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.

Also, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"

I like to think so to - guidelines are basically what best practices are. And behind every best practice there's a programmer who at one point failed and fixed their mistake. If you buy more ram/cpu/disk, are you allowing them to fail, or are you just "patching" the problem yourself?

Whenever I have a question whose answer is more subjective than objective, I ask it on HN.

I find the community here gives the most comprehensive and unbiased answer, while still being passionate about their opinions.

Great Idea!

Being mobile first, we dropped this plan in favour of reducing clutter.

We'll consider putting this info in a separate view.

I've not tried hackerrank.

Will surely give it a whirl.

One of my professors in college put it in a way that stuck with me. All source code has to be compiled by (at least) two different machines; the compiler and the programmer's brain. The machines have radically different parsers, but must end up with the same parse tree for the program to function correctly.

> "Source code should be written to be understood by people."

This viewpoint is described well in the Preface to the First Edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs, 2nd paragraph:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html

I would suggest reading the whole Preface. It's quite an inspirational work for this field.

"The source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfolding within the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expressed as programs and the explosion of perception they generate. If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!"

Enjoyed it! Thanks!

I apologize, the Foreward is the inspirational work I was speaking of:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-5.html

Not that the contents of the Preface should be ignored :)

Cool! I'll surely give it a read!

I'm a layman so I ask this question with sincerity. Would your opinion change if the formatting was performed manually, at the moment of your choosing?

"formatting was performed manually"? What do you mean by that?

I'd rather it be performed automatically. But, I find very few tools that would format it the way I want.

I meant that the formatting mentioned in the article was done when you chose to do it (by executing a command) rather than automatically as it recognized the syntax.

I guess I'm asking if you object to the formatting itself or the automation of it.

Graph Theory

Basic design of any solutions become real graceful.

Great List.

From now on, every time I write web code I'll use this as a check list!