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> The more important takeaway That's exactly the issue - you can't have a takeaway if you don't have a reasonable sample size. Are these drives all in the top 5% of quality for the…

You can make a seamless experience so that people don't even realize that their email is encrypted, but then the problem becomes: if their computer crashes and they lose their priv…

Ugh, that headline.

> I like testing those things on which my model depends. It gives me much more confidence. Why wouldn't I want to test them? Those things all need to be tested, but if a single uni…

I always assumed the point of mocking a database response was to ensure that you were testing just your code, and not also the existence of a database with the right schema, the ab…

Even after reading this list, I'm comfortable forgetting everything (with maybe one exception) because these surprises really only come up when you use horrible coding practices. B…

This sounds less like epiphany and more like things you wish were true.

I was using it for a long time, and then after some update I was completely unable to get it to run on any new servers. Not sure what changed, but using the package manager route w…

It's a felony in the US to do what the author did here, right? Not that there's any indication where they're from, I'm just curious.

OK nevermind. I get it now, it's just emailing you a new token everytime you want to use the site, or something like that. It's just such a terrible idea I couldn't wrap my mind ar…

No, I don't get the idea. If I'm requesting a token for a certain user, how can the server reliably determine if I actually am that user? If it just authenticates every request, wh…

So if the token expires, how do you log back in? What happens if you want to use a different browser? Or buy a new computer?

At the community college I went to, you took as many or as few classes as you wanted, and could quit and return at any semester as you pleased. What's with all the bullshit rules a…

Start exercising. I found my quality of sleep increased dramatically once I did this, and even though I was still going to bed at 2 or 3 AM at first, it somehow made shifting to a …

A few years ago when I was living in China I was told about this, but it never worked. Then on a hunch I fired up my proxy and discovered that the Chinese government was actively c…