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Hashcat and strong master passwords as your best projection(blog.agilebits.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 13y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
I'm a bike commuter, and in the past 3 years electric bike commuter. I had leg injuries and the electric bike I purchased enabled me to continue commuting by bike with light peddling. For the past 3 years my commute is 4 miles each way, wit
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Thanks for piping in - unfortunately I'm too late to edit my 1.5 comment. Can you describe the easiest way for non-developers to get started with Mezzanine? Is there a way to do it that doesn't involve installing Python, Django, virtualenv,
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Very cool - I didn't know about this. However, this still presupposes you have a local Python/Django/Mezzanine installation. Simple for a Django web developer, probably not too bad for a non-Django web developer - but it's a bit much to exp
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Can you name 1 or more cloud providers that have auto installers for Mezzanine? I'm not aware of any. Here's a post from 4 months ago comparing installing Mezzanine on a number of PaaS providers. None seemed anywhere close to as simple as i
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Mezzanine is quite nice: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/ It's Python (a Django app). BSD license. It has many advantages over Wordpress that I won't get into here, but all this is offset by one massive disadvantage: It rests on the Django fram
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I couldn't find any examples on the site of using "the magic of Scss, you can now remove almost all of the presentational classes from your markup." Could someone provide an example, or provide a pointer to an example of html markup which r
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Trust issues abound in published reviews (with the possible exception of Consumer Reports), whether by respected journalists, real buyers on Amazon, or anonymous online posts. What I find of most interest about this story are the possibilit
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
With Django in specific you can swap out a component. For example, if (like many people) you don't like the HTML template syntax, just swap it out for Jinja2 or Mako. In Django it is also usually easy to customize something minor by use of
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
The basic idea here sounds great, but as someone who just went through a roughly similar training (self directed) over the past 4.5 months, I'd like to comment on the choice for Python: I went through most of Learn Python the Hard Way: htt
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Agree++. I used Macs for a few years (SE/30, PB180) but software I paid good money for kept not being usable, and my favorite piece of software of all time (HyperCard) was dropped from the O/S. Forcing my software to become obsolete is the
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Worried that I'm too slow, I then tracked down the reference to the fizzbuzz test: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer... That one took me 11 minutes. There was less syntax and more logic tested with fizzbuzz. The
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
data point: I started learning Python/Django 4 months ago (after a 20 year break from programmiung). Took me 40 minutes to solve. I'm not yet fluent with syntax so I had to look up (and still managed to mangle list processing syntax and was
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Django is the leading Python framework (by any usage measure) for web development. Python is a popular language. Ergo . . . As someone who has been learning Django/Python for 4 months, I very much appreciate both the getting started with Dj
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I started learning Python/Django 4 months ago. At first I avoided deployment but when I got around to it, I easily spent over 1/3 of the last 4 months messing with most of the things outlined in the first lesson - and in fact I ended up mak
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Drop the minutes and data plans to the minimum and drop your 2 regular phones. Then share your plan with other people if you can. I am sharing a family plan with my inlaws at 550 minutes for the 3 of us. I also pay $15/month for data, so in
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Feedback from a 4 month newbie: I've read several chapters. Overall the book is great but I have some specific suggestions, which I'll wrap in the context of what my biggest barriers to learning Django and web development have been. Backgro
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Thanks for that - looks like a huge time saver! Unfortunately, it won't fully automate setup. Things like entering passwords for a service you want to set up, tinkering with desktop, firefox or other app settings, etc. But still - this gets
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
roderikvdv's answer was helpful. I also found a long post discussing Django VMs specifically using vagrant: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/06/django-advice/
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Terrific concept. What tools (if any) exist to do this kind of thing on Linux VM? Do they work equally well for non Ruby environments (I'm thinking specifically Python/Django)? I've spent the last week mucking around with VMware/bitnami to
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I'm a different data point. I've used nothing but Windows (98, XP and now 7) for over a decade. Lately I've been learning web development (Django) and realized a few weeks ago that to really do this right I needed to do linux. So I used VMw
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Google has stopped doing anything with its interface but that hasn't stopped dozens of others who sync with Google Reader. I personally find that Newisfy (iOS) does everything I need for a Google Reader client. Don't like Newsify? Then choo
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Learning Python the Hard Way was perfect for me. I did some procedural programming with Pascal and C in the 1980s, but nothing with programming for the next 20 years. 3 months ago I started learning Django/Python. Python was the easy part a
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
The first 2 lines (display, PPI) and the price line are why I did not buy an iPad mini, which would have been my first tablet had it been priced at $200 or maybe even $249. So marketing is dead on, in my view. Instead I bought an Apple-refu
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Making Yourself a CEO(bhorowitz.com)
221 points by FilterJoe 14y ago|33 comments
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
For those who don't game or edit videos, this has been true for about 8 years. I retired my 2004 1GB RAM Dell desktop in 2012 and still keep it as a backup. The ever increasing speed of browsers and the shift of my work from the desktop to
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I improved the post intro, it did get posted to lifehacker, and it was even introduced very well with "Joe Golton set out with $600-$700 to see if an ordinary person with no technical know-how can buy an off-the-shelf system that's also ver
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I appreciate your compliment, which describes exactly my aims with writing style. It's actually much harder to write that way then stringing together a technical guide for the technical, which is what the first draft looks like for many of
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
I'm kind of glad you did because I realize the intro could be improved to make the scope and audience of the post clear (and acknowledge what else exists but is outside the scope of the post). I'll improve the intro tomorrow. EDIT: Added la
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by FilterJoe 14y ago
Agreed (I'm the OP). I consider HD3000 to be minimum acceptable graphics. Ivy Bridge has HD2500 in the desktop CPUs which is also (probably) acceptable and I could have stated that exception - but I was trying to keep the post simple for th

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