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TL;DR: JavaScript has notorious quirks because it was designed in just ten days as a prototype to help Netscape survive the early browser wars. Because the internet relies on absolute backwards compat
Should you use a custom ID type or just stick to strings? Sticking to raw strings is simpler and faster to write, but wrapping your IDs in a custom domain type prevents developer mistakes—like running
Quick Answer: Assuming a day is exactly 86,400 seconds will inevitably break your software. Time is a political construct, not a mathematical one. Irregularities like daylight savings, sudden governme
Quick Answer: When processing financial transactions over the internet, systems cannot rely on ambiguous symbols like the dollar sign ($) because dozens of countries share it. Instead, banking APIs us
Quick Answer: The pursuit of perfect software often leads to delayed launches, burned budgets, and building the wrong product entirely. I always say that by adopting a "good enough" engineering philos
TL;DR: Computers are deterministic, meaning they struggle to create "true" randomness. I solve this using a spectrum of techniques: Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs) for logic like gaming, hardw
