Five Mostly StackExchange Links To Bookmark Right Now

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5) Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? — The story about a security auditor demanding that a sysadmin hand over plain text usernames and passwords, and much more.

4) Why do Trampolines work? — JavaScript (≤ ES5) does not support tail call optimization and risks blowing the stack on recursion. Trampolining gets around this, and it’s brilliant. Read the 2nd answer (Jack).

3) What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text — If you’ve ever wondered when to encode or decode UTF-8, read this.

2) List Of Freely Available Programming Books — A treasure.

1) Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide To Functional Programming — This really solidified my decision to switch into the world of FP and adopt currying, compositions, etc into my JS code and start playing with Haskell and LISP.

Honorable Mention:

Please help make 3d images in php [closed]

So unless you have a relatively good score on StackOverflow, you might not see that one since it was closed, so I’ll post some screen grabs here. It’s the best answer on StackOverflow.com, hands down.

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