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On 8/12/24 6:48 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-08-12, shemp13@outlook.com <shemp13@outlook.com> wrote:
> 
>> Nothing is idiot proof. The best you can hope for is idiot resistant.
> 
> It is difficult to make a system foolproof because fools are so
> ingenious.
> 
> I love testing a new system with a totally naive user.
> It always amazes me to watch the kind of inputs they
> manage to come up with - stuff I could never imagine.

   Discovered - with systems/apps that involve a lot
   of user input, nearly HALF of your code will be
   dedicated to how MANY ways they can fuck it up and
   what to DO about it  :-)