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> good work-life balance

> following daily routine

Honestly curious how you have 10.5 hours to spend at the gym every day, then 8 hours at work, and still have a life? Lost 85 lbs recently myself and have extremely flexible remote developer hours and still don't think I could find 10 hours a week to spend at a gym.


I took 1 month completely off to correct the trajectory of my health. Rest of the time I just do 2 hours of gym/swimming.


I use 1Password and randomly generate answers for each question and log them in the "Notes" of the account.

I'm sure other tools like KeePass have similar sections to do the same thing.

That way the answers aren't reproducible and you have them safely stored somewhere.


As an added bonus, this means someone armed with the real answers to those questions won't be able to get access.

When Sarah Palin's "personal" email was hacked during the 2008 election, the attacker used her Wikipedia page and recovery questions.[0]

[0]: http://nypost.com/2008/09/19/dem-pols-son-was-hacker/


'hacking'


"to circumvent security and break into (a network, computer, file, etc.), usually with malicious intent"

Just because they didn't impress you by finding a side channel timing attack for the password hashing algorithm used by Yahoo, doesn't make it any less of a hack.

Why spend millions investing in a network of computers to break encryption, when the key can be gained far more easily with a $20 tire wrench applied with sufficient force to the DBA's knee caps?


I do this but it poses a problem for, as an example, banking. When they ask you the answer to your security question over the phone and you don't have access to your computer/password manager. Let's say you're one of those weird people without a laptop and your account is frozen while travelling overseas.

Having a cat named 1FD362BW9L6MBOWRD23SEF43 becomes a huge problem...


That's why I like 1Password. It's on my phone, so it's accessible, and I can do "words" instead of "characters".

So, I could very well have my mother's maiden name be "panda porpoise flutist sandpile", but I understand what you're saying. It may not be for everyone, but I work in the security sector and usually over-paranoid is better than ill-prepared.


Yes, this is the right way to go. Unfortunately it is limited to the tech savvy. Also, I know somebody who needed to contact a company by phone, and he needed tell the rep his security answer. He had to read off his 20 random characters. Pretty lol.


I wouldn't say "weird", but I am curious how you manage to swap your iPhone battery to the spare you carry.


I'm sure GP means an external USB battery pack.


While maybe not the answer you're looking for, but the value of your domain is precisely what someone is willing to pay for it.


yes good point, a domain might be worth "$500" as a hard valuation, but there might be a client that needs the domain that could be willing to pay 5-6 figures for it. Usually either shorter ones, or really brandable ones.


I'm really glad this is starting to get some more national attention.


When the first sentence has "but the its" in it, I gave up on even trying to read the article.


What a crap title...

Cars don't kill people, anymore than guns do. It's the idiot behind the wheel/trigger that's doing the killing.

These pieces of metal are built to be controlled by responsible humans. They do not make decisions for you, anymore than a spoon is making the decision for me to eat another bowl of cereal!


That's kinda a useless distinction. Nobody read that title and pictured sentient guns tracking down and hunting humans. Autonomous cars doing that might almost be plausible, but realistically the same applies there.

"Gun related fatalities are currently as high as automotive related fatalities in the U.S. for the first time" might be a more precise statement, but it's a worse headline.


What's easier? Outlawing idiots or outlawing guns?


Now that it's made it to the front page, maybe it won't get posted again...


> [...] scale the Tartu TV mast, built in 1857

TV tower built in 1857, huh? I wonder what was broadcasting almost 100 years before TV stations existed?


While these are fun stories, it would be nice if you provided additional resources from your research.


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