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Reduce RAM usage by your browser with AutoTabDiscard

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If you are reading this article, can you please take a second and count the number of tabs that you have currently as opened?

If you are like me, chances are that this number should be greater than 5.

All these tabs can be a bit distracting, since you may consider opening them up and checking them from time to time even if you do not need to do that.

Moreover, all these tabs can consume RAM in your computer.

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Free Step-by-step Guides on What to Learn as a Software Developer

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One of the main pain points in the career of a software developer is that there are too many things to learn, not that much time available, and many different alternatives that can make it hard to prioritize and choose from an overwhelmingly large list of technologies that can currently be well paid in the market.

It’s even hard to compare it with any other job. At least, no other profession comes to my mind that could have such diverse possibilities to choose from.

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Python also has a “for-else”

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Python is one of the most popular programming languages. You see posts about it all the time.

If you use it, you may have been seeing many tips about it all over the place: from tweets to articles, or YouTube videos.

Despite all that, chances are that you may have missed the following “for-else” which I also got to see for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

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Even Wolverine fears he is not good enough

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When you see movies with superheroes, you are very likely to think that, hey that’s the guy who is able to do everything.

He has figured out everything in his life. No insecurities, no doubts, no self-defeating habits. No procrastination. Everything is just at the pedestal.

If you go and dig deeper into their own lives, you can notice the actual reality which is completely different.

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What Samurai Warriors Can Teach Us About Writing?

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Many writers these days publish their earnings to inspire others of what’s possible. That gives you the impression that you are also able to do that in the first article that you write.

You write the first draft and hit publish. You expect a week or two and see that you barely have any readers for your article. Then, you try it a second time and expect that this time, it will be different.

You spend a lot more time polishing the format, adding headers and great pictures. Then, this article also turns out to capture the attention of very few readers.

Then you think of quitting.

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