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Specifically common passwords for servers, VPN accounts, test web accounts, etc.

I've been noticing that Chrome's autocomplete does not work on significantly more sites than it does. Each time I've been inspecting the HTML and sometimes its caused by unsemantic form field names, but more often it's forcefully disabled with `autocomplete="off"`. Why are people doing this? It's cumbersome and error prone to fill in the same monotonous information over and over, please let my browser do it for me.

I've been on OSX since Lion, before that I spent my time on Windows. Finder is pretty awful compared to Windows Explorer. Are there any alternatives people use?

PS. Please don't say Terminal. I use the CL for development but for browsing & interacting with photos and documents of any substantial quantity I enjoy a UI.

A large portion (majority) of programmers I've worked with are immigrants and don't speak English as a first language. I have no problem with that whatsoever. Recently though, I've experienced situations where communication issues have led to significant company losses. Further, I'm trying to improve our technical documentation and commit message quality which unfortunately requires better English[1]. How do you deal with this situation?

[1] This is certainly not to suggest all English-speaking programmers have better documentation or commit messages.

Before the prototypes, MVPs and YC applications, what are the first basic steps a hacker should take to pursue their dream idea?