cardinal rule

基本解释

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you’ll inevitably get less of.
稅收最主要的一個槼律就是，無論你對什麽征稅，不可避免地會相應損失一些。
Many web companies forget the cardinal rule of e-commerce: Web shoppers want as little hassle as possible.
很多的網絡的公司忘記了這一電子商務網站的主要原則：網購者想要盡量的減少麻煩。
So the cardinal rule of all web development, and I can’t stress it enough, is: Never, Ever, Trust Your Users. Assume every single piece of data your site collects from a user contains malicious code.
有一條web開發的基本原則，我重複多少遍都覺得不夠，那就是：千萬不要相信你的用戶，同時要假設你網站中的每個數據單元都是從用戶那裡收集來的惡意代碼。
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