Mathematics

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    If you are making a web application with users management, bitwise flags will be really useful for that same application. I've never used bitwise flags in my past small web application, and I definitely regret not having used them before... Not only it's super convenient, but you also don't need tons of rows in your database to store various account information.
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    Unique IDs are pretty much used everywhere and in every application. They are used to identify a user, a product, a transaction, a session, etc. That way we can, for example, assign a transaction made to a specific user, and not by mistake another one. In this article, I'll show you how I generate unique IDs in my applications and give them a second usage as well.