It was a smart person who decided that a:visited and a should be different colours in the browser stylesheet. Usability win by default!
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When a tool supports both regular expressions and literal strings, which should be the default?
If you default to regex, users can match more strings than they realise (e.g. `foo.txt`) or less (e.g. `foo(bar)`).
I typically see regex as the default, but I prefer the opposite.
It's odd that games often show the hours played, but I've not seen this in other apps.
"You've spent 20 hours talking to this person." Would this be a usage deterrent? If so, why do many games offer it by default?
It's really satisfying to use a profiler for the first time on a project. I always find a big performance win with only a small code change.
It's never the code that I expected to be slow, however!