Tell HN: Don't learn more than you need to know

Re:Tell HN: Don't learn more than you need to know by stephenr on Thursday February 16, 2017 @08:17PM (#13665143)

Sounds like the sort of thinking that leads to apps that depend on a slew of "cloud" vendor services and 5 different saas api's (plus their collective cloud requirements) because the developer doesn't know how to hash a password or resize an image.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't learn more than you need to know by meric on Saturday February 18, 2017 @10:43PM (#13678085)

You can read about hashing passwords and resizing images in a textbook but the reading maybe less efficient compared to actually learning it while doing it. Knowledge and experience. E.g. Someone who's reading wikipedia about worms is wasting his time compared to someone who's joined a worm lab.

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Re:Tell HN: Don't learn more than you need to know by stephenr on Saturday February 18, 2017 @11:09PM (#13678145)

Oh that's fine then. This textbook says I can use md5 for my passwords so that's what I'll do.

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