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I don't think I saw it mentioned anywhere, but another thought that occurs to me is it might have been initially useful when he created the table to have the "private" field actually be called "public" instead.

The idea being that if the field is likely to be initialized to a default, you want the safer default. (IE, in that case things would be created as accidentally private, rather than as accidentally public)

Kudos to the author for the transparency. I actually have never used pinboard, but that blog post actually makes me more likely to use it rather then less.



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