Freesia.Cutepearl
Nonsensically Weird while Weirdly Nonsensical
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- Aug 24, 2020
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YES! I remember this! Never ever ever ever assume any user data will be safe or accurate. It's important for both security as well as proper functioning and data processing.My opinion is probably a consequence of me minoring in computer science though. If you don’t want people to do certain things, then it’s necessary to program your app in a way that makes it physically impossible to do it wrong.
A simple example is, think about how many ways there are to enter a date. If you just gave someone a text field and asked for a date you could get an assortment of different answers that are not easy to work with, and possibly not even accurate. Maybe someone says it's February 31st, 0000? Or maybe they just say it's Tuesday.
I haven't really paid too much attention to what it does now, but I would think that to give a star rating or review, a certain amount of reading could be required. The question is when do you limit it? And what happens with outlier cases, say you need to read 2 chapters to give a rating, what happens to a one chapter one shot? etc.