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by re_todd 14y ago
I've heard of sites truncating to only use the first 8-12 characters as well. So if you are going to use lots of words, put them after a highly complex first 8 characters.
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by re_todd 14y ago
I just reset to a 22 character password, so I know that number of characters is allowable at least.
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by re_todd 14y ago
It's important, but I don't think it's crucial. I've seen a couple programmers that are really good that do not have good memories. They always have apis and cheat sheets open in their browsers they are constantly referencing, along with f
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by re_todd 14y ago
Assuming LinkedIn used SHA1 unsalted passwords and will continue to do so, and many of us do not want to delete our LinkedIn accounts, what should be the minimum number of characters we should use in our new password? 15? 20? 100? (I know
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by re_todd 14y ago
Yeah, even I, a newbie Rails programmer, going through the Agile Rails book learned how to salt. It isn't rocket science.
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by re_todd 14y ago
I think it's more terrifying today. Who would have thought a small place like North Korea kill lots and lots of Americans? It may happen indirectly, via sharing nuke technology with Iran, who is buddy-buddy with Latin American countries,
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by re_todd 14y ago
I still use it too. I like it, but it seems to be down 1 out of 3 times I try to use it, so let's just say it's 33% dead.
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by re_todd 14y ago
I'm not saying newbies get very far with it.
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by re_todd 14y ago
You have to factor in all the newbies that here all this doom and gloom about the job market in the media, and the last tidbit in the news story usually mentions "but there is a lot of growth in iPhone and Android apps". This is probably c
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by re_todd 14y ago
Yeah, maybe it was made by interns brainstorming and was never really meant to be released to the public.
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by re_todd 14y ago
Good point. I took a course on business communication, and remember learning that tone is often lost in writing. You may send an email to someone in a friendly, playful mood, but it can come across as sarcastic and/or rude to the recipien
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by re_todd 14y ago
Good point. When I'm stuck and management takes a couple days to get back to me and I have nothing to do, I take advantage of this time to learn new things. Maybe I'll read the man pages for "find" and discover a few new tricks. Or I'll
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by re_todd 14y ago
One day I had an epiphany. I realized as I was programming at my computer that nobody had a freaking clue what I was actually working on. If someone asks how their low-priority project is going, I just say that I'm still working on it. T
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by re_todd 14y ago
This is great, especially the screen-scraping stuff. This will really take me from Ruby beginner and level me up. Where's the donate button?
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by re_todd 14y ago
I agree with what envex said, but would add that if you don't start doing something withing a few weeks of going through these courses, you'll forget almost everything. As they say "use it or lose it".
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by re_todd 14y ago
I never thought Brita would make the list. I've been using them since Consumer Reports gave them a good review for low-cost but effective water filtration systems. Does anyone know of a good low-cost alternative?
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by re_todd 14y ago
As the great Jack Handey of Deep Thoughts once said, "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
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by re_todd 14y ago
I got a job where we don't deal with Oracle at all, life is so much better! I'd recommend it to anyone. Eat your veggies, exercise regularly, and work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness!
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by re_todd 14y ago
And it's the wealthier kids that can afford the stuff that makes them cool. It's all about getting the wealthy to feel superior to the rest of us and pretending that wealth had nothing to do with it.
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by re_todd 14y ago
Great post, very well-balanced. One of the dumbest things I heard growing up was that to be silent is to agree with someone, I can't remember the exact quote, I think there are a few variations. So I'd see myself as a hero when someone wou
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by re_todd 14y ago
The few times I've gone "off the reservation" to work on something important to the organization, but I know I would have been told to not work on it, I usually: 1. Don't tell the boss about it until is partially functional. They can't for
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by re_todd 15y ago
I prefer to call it a train wreck in slow motion.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Yeah, people should find a balance. Instead of looking at the one thing we are passionate about, maybe we should look at 5-10 things that we would enjoy, then go from there. I was most passionate about literature, and started off taking s
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by re_todd 15y ago
LA is hard to figure out. I was around Long Beach a few weeks ago, and it looked like a pretty nice street, but about 5-6 blocks over was another main street that looked like a real ghetto. Also, I was in Pasadena a few months ago, on Lak
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by re_todd 15y ago
He's got a cool sense of humor too. Here are a few recent gems from his @tpope twitter account: "My favorite part of the glaucoma puff test is how it always works the first time and they never end up blasting your eyeball over and over." "
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by re_todd 15y ago
You just made me shit my pants!
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by re_todd 15y ago
A couple thoughts came to mind 1. How big of a jackass a person would have to be to think it's ok to ask for someones username and password to anything shocks me 2. I don't have a facebook account, so what would happen to people like me? W
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by re_todd 15y ago
Yeah, mine never crashed too, unless I ran a DOS game. But even then, it crashed only a few times in a year. If I ran it on Windows, it would crash a few times a day.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Good point. Even with a Bachelors in Computer Science, it can be hard to make the industry average until you have at least 5 years experience.
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by re_todd 15y ago
Haha, even better!

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