Why follow defensive programming best practice when code will never be public? If you're designing a card game that only you will see, maybe it's ok to be lenient.

Defensive programming can help make designs more resilient, but developing embedded software that can handle unforeseen circumstances is not a trivial matter; it requires discipline and forethought.

Hadoop is the most significant concrete technology behind the so called 'Big Data' revolution. Hadoop combines an economical model for storing massive quantities of data - the Hadoop Distributed File ...