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Re:Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings by jrockway on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @05:55PM (#9926143)
The five whys should be applied to successes in addition to failures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys

If you figure out some amazing workaround, ask yourself why it works. If you don't know, don't trust the workaround.

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Re:Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings by freehunter on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:14PM (#9926247)
If you question it, you might find a way that works better. Then you have to redo all of it, and that's more work, so just keep plugging away, blissfully ignorant!
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Re:Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings by moron4hire on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:11PM (#9926234)
"If I just wrap everything with if(obj != null), then all the bugs go away!"
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