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OK but you're skipping over the central point that the energy drain disappears as a person grows more "skilled" in extroversion. You're welcome to disagree, but your comment is clo…
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Did you read the article? It discusses energy at length.
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Yeah the fact that society values the extroversion skill more, even to the point where alcohol abusers are "cooler" than people sitting alone working for years on end to solve society's…
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I know "introvert" is an important part of many people's identity, so I don't want to bash that, but this article[0] and some long talks with someone who didn't believe that &…
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I never claimed it was more secure than a password manager. Just 'surprisingly' secure. You get something easy to remember with a lot of entropy that's difficult even for someone target…
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"Depending on your usecase" - e.g. you use many devices, need your passwords on all of them, and don't trust any of the current password managers to do their job (which is valid due to …
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Always going to be a security/convenience tradeoff to some extent. If you expect to be targeted by The Baddies (tm), you want to tradeoff convenience for security. Spend some time every day memor…
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Joined HyperionDev[0] and helped them transition their business model and product to focus on Coding Bootcamps (Web Dev, Mobile Dev, Comp Sci) instead of short courses [0] https://www.hyper…
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A lot of valid criticism already about this "info graphic" (advert). Also not proof of "a bubble", but more interesting to me are the four metrics presented graphically here https…
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It definitely helps to have a unique name, but it's possible without. A lot of good advice in this thread, but as someone who achieved what you want, some extra points: * Don't focus on one …
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This is true for developers applying through job ads. patio11 has a written millions of words of advice, many of which talk about how to land work (hint, don't apply through job ads), so I'm…
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Hi, author here :) I've written a few similar posts and would love to get feedback from HN. Using PostgreSQL through SQLAlchemy[0] Flask vs Django[1] [0] https://www.compose.com/a…
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I was pretty surprised to see a BBC article link to power poses with no mention of the controversy and retractions. This seems like something a basic fact check should have picked up.
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It definitely boils down to personal preference in the end. I always hated trying to wrap my head around solutions before understanding the problem. By using Flask first, you also end up thinking &qu…
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I normally recommend that people learn Flask if they really want to learn . Flask is simple and you have to do more yourself, which means you really get to understand how each component works. Django…
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These are great -- looking forward to seeing this list grow. I've added it to this repository [0] where I'm tracking technical writing and publishing resources. It's still small, but pl…
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You can mitigate this almost completely by finding that "database of usernames/passwords sourced from elsewhere" (they're not hard to find) and blacklisting them. Users should not …
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Not all vulnerabilities stem from ignorance, although this seems to be the default assumption of the infosec community. Writing secure code takes more time than writing insecure code. Time is expensiv…
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People always come at this from an angle of "what can I do that computers can't?". You need to take into account the incredible diversity of people who use the internet, and what they c…
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At the risk of displeasing the Docker crowd, I would say you can get pretty far without them. In general, I see a lot of people learning and using BuzzWord solutions for problems that they don't …