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you can also add zeroes (or other digits which get stripped before used for querying) at the end, that way the gain looks orders of magnitudes faster
by thecatspaw 7y ago
you can also add zeroes (or other digits which get stripped before used for querying) at the end, that way the gain looks orders of magnitudes faster
- jstanley 7y agoSure, but anyone signing up for 3 accounts in quick succession can probably figure out what you're doing. All of these problems go away if you just assign random numbers instead.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWhy would honest people want to spend time implementing ways to lie to their users? Because that's what we're talking about here. (And I know I'm asking a rhetorical question.)
- jstanley 7y agoAssigning random ids isn't lying to your users, unless you also make representations that the user id corresponds to the number of users that there are.