Seibel: Do you feel at all that programming is a young person’s game?
Ingalls: … I tried to learn to play piano fairly late in life. People said, “Oh, you should learn when you’re young. You learn so much quicker”. Although I didn’t go very far, my conclusion was that it isn’t that young people learn that much faster; it’s just they have more time. When I would put time in, I made progress.
When I need to create a password, I use this nifty aspect of openssl from the command line:
$ openssl rand -base64 6
Works like a charm for generating passwords in the range [a-zA-Z0-9].