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Look, we all intuitively get that it's a bad idea and it is definitely funny. But honestly is it helping to make fun of the poor user rather than educate them as to why their password is on the list and the importance of secure password practices? The security community I grew up with was welcoming and understanding, and it sparked an interest I never would have realized otherwise.
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> But honestly is it helping to make fun of the poor user rather than educate them as to why their password is on the list and the importance of secure password practices? I am not sure the issue poster really uses that password...
Poe's law applies here of course, that's fair. Still...
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The user has a large number of GitHub commits and the technical knowledge needed to create a pull request probably exceeds the knowledge needed to know why this doesn't work... I feel comfortable assuming the original PR is a joke.
> the technical knowledge needed to create a pull request probably exceeds the knowledge needed to know why this doesn't work... The plural of anecdote is not data, but I have first hand experience with someone who can make a pull request but doesn't understand password best practices at all. Granted it might be because I taught them to make pull requests, but still... I know people who wrote code for their thesis in…
How can one write code (that runs!) for one's thesis without paying attention to Python's semantically significant whitespace?
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> the technical knowledge needed to create a pull request probably exceeds the knowledge needed to know why this doesn't work... The plural of anecdote is not data, but I have first hand experience with someone who can make a pull request but doesn't understand password best practices at all. Granted it might be because I taught them to make pull requests, but still... I know people who wrote code for their thesis in…
> 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?
Look, we all intuitively get that it's a bad idea and it is definitely funny. But honestly is it helping to make fun of the poor user rather than educate them as to why their password is on the list and the importance of secure password practices? The security community I grew up with was welcoming and understanding, and it sparked an interest I never would have realized otherwise.
lol
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> 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?
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The user has a large number of GitHub commits and the technical knowledge needed to create a pull request probably exceeds the knowledge needed to know why this doesn't work... I feel comfortable assuming the original PR is a joke.
> the technical knowledge needed to create a pull request probably exceeds the knowledge needed to know why this doesn't work... The plural of anecdote is not data, but I have first hand experience with someone who can make a pull request but doesn't understand password best practices at all. Granted it might be because I taught them to make pull requests, but still... I know people who wrote code for their thesis in…
You can make these sorts of trivial changes just by clicking around the GitHub web UI, I could probably tell a 12 year old how to make a trivial change like this, regardless of their coding expertise https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-your-repos...