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Re: Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

#42

Ctrl + F hunter2 (4 matches) I love a good in-joke. Spoilers: http://bash.org/?244321

What did you search for? When you type hunter2 all I see are stars.

Copied the stars and then pasted that into CTRL-F

Re: Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

#44

They should have checked their password with https://inutile.club/estatis/password-security-checker/ . It correctly identifies both “hunter2” and “dolphins” as unsafe.

That's a very good resource. I typed in gibberish to make sure it was what I hoped it was.

Re: Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never asked the details, I just know that they used Python before but couldn't cope with indentation when I worked with them on code.

How did they fail to cope with it?

I had an answer typed up, but it felt like picking on them rather than explaining the issue. Text is hard.

After submitting changes that started 10 indents past the previous line, and had little to no rhyme or reason for subsequent indentation, we asked them to reformat and resubmit. When it became clear that they could not, we reviewed the code itself separately from the indentation and reformatted it ourselves.

Multiple co-workers sat next to them to try to explain how to line things up vertically, but they were unable to do so without said help.

This was over the course of about two weeks in which we were instructed to try to bring them onboard some of our projects. Both our and their projects at the time were frontend web projects.

I have not looked at any of their code outside what was submitted to our side, but I do know they are praised for the quality of their work by management.

Re: Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

#47

They should have checked their password with https://inutile.club/estatis/password-security-checker/ . It correctly identifies both “hunter2” and “dolphins” as unsafe.

That's a very good resource. I typed in gibberish to make sure it was what I hoped it was.

Of course, “gibberish” is also an unsafe password.

Re: Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I know people who wrote code for their thesis in Python but can't grasp why indentation matters. How can one write code (that runs!) for one's thesis without paying attention to Python's semantically significant whitespace?

Perhaps an IDE/editor that autoformats python code?

Actually, I used VIM on Windows while editing the files. My VIM is set with fixendofline or something. The files with the extra line ending change did not have \r\n at the end, so my VIM added it. I usually prefer to the have the extra line ending at the end of every file, so I kept the change in the PR.

Re: Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

#50

They should have checked their password with https://inutile.club/estatis/password-security-checker/ . It correctly identifies both “hunter2” and “dolphins” as unsafe.

I don't know how safe it is to enter my password into a site I've never heard of before... Not that I'm accusing them of it, but this is the perfect setup for a phishing scam.
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