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I downloaded the APK and then used "Profile or Debug APK" under file in Android Studio and ctrl/cmd+shift+f to search for strings.

I don't know much about Android development or APKs but it's not exactly "reversing." from what I understand the profile/debug converts the .dex files from the APK to .smali which is human readable.

Personally, for whatever reason in my mind, I think "get" as referring to something local which is why I choose between three different verbs, "grab", "fetch", or "query" (typically grab), as a descriptive prefix for functions that retrieve data from external sources.

"but people who use drugs to enhance reality don't have the same problems as those that use them to avoid it"

In terms of lifestyles, professions, and passions I have a very horizontal range of friends/coworkers/acquaintances. I see the motives behind drug use as being very personal through observation and I understand the self derivative nature of addiction through my own experiences with a wide variety of substances.

For some people an escape (not necessarily a complete avoidance) from reality acts as a reality enhancement (novel antidepressants such as dissociatives similar to Ketamine and other NMDA agonists fall into this category). Its use offers a renewed perspective on life and can put issues into perspective as to how important those problems are or how simple it is to solve many of them.

There are also those that use drugs to enhance reality (mostly through the use of stimulants which promote a feeling of sober sobriety) and those users may fall into a dangerously addictive mindset best summarized as 'Reality without a drug to enhance it is a very dull and mundane mode of existence. When I use this substance my reality is enhanced and I become the best version of myself I can possibly be.' Those individuals are not operating under a need to solve a problem, they view the drug as a way to follow the mantra 'just be yourself' because the use of the drug lets them do that with a sense of weightlessness. The use becomes the path of least resistance towards an unequivocally enhanced reality.

Personally my first experience with any 'problem drug' belonged to the category of benzodiazepines and it was prescribed to me. The dissipation of anxiety from the point of view of a chronically anxious and nervous user turns the litmus "Xanax is the greatest drug ever" towards something akin to the discovery of 'the secret chord' in the song "Now I've heard there was a secret chord, That David played, and it pleased the Lord [..] It goes like this, The fourth, the fifth, The minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing Hallelujah." I never fell into a xanax addiction, I was happy with composing hallelujah, but I understand the sentiment behind its value to some users.

There are classes after classes of drugs with effects ranging beyond my own personal experiences. It comes down to what does the drug do, what conditions primed the user for abuse, and what conditions have arised from the use of the drug (if any) that are negatively affecting the user's life. There is no simple cure for addiction but there is a period of time where the addiction isn't about physical dependency on the drug and that is, in my opinion, the best place to search for when 'curing' and understanding addiction.

This is a good rough draft but it lacks a lot of basic background information. It reminds me of trying to teach programming by only providing a collection of code snippets, these are useful but they won't replace true guidance and they can become a dangerous learning crutch. Don't forget who your audience is (or who you're attracting with a title like Web Hacking 101) and remember that when you write you should be focusing on making it as easy to read and understand as easy as possible for them. Explain the whys behind taking certain steps such as why you should be google searching for sql errors (saves you time, it's easy, google cache pages can show details about errors that are not longer visible on the live site, and most importantly what sql is and the implications of an error).

While it's not about technical writing I think Kurt Vonnegut's advice will help you to make a better write up. Specifically #7. -- Pitty the Readers[0]

Vonnegut mentions The Elements of Style[1] which you'll find useful if you're struggling to give detailed explanations

[0] http://peterstekel.com/PDF-HTML/Kurt%20Vonnegut%20advice%20t...

[1] http://faculty.washington.edu/heagerty/Courses/b572/public/S...

Perhaps the simple principle that behind every great love/success lays a great suicide. You can't give yourself completely and keep the man inside. Maybe current society places too much value (amongst men) on complete commitment which in turn leads to a type of internal suicide, a loss of self and identity, which may manifest itself in a less internal but instead physical response (a true suicide).

Depression and anxiety are often comorbid and it is more likely that you will see both disorders rather than one in absence of the other. There is a lot of research going into determining why these disorders are often tangled together, some studies [1] suggest that depression can stem from anxiety disorders and that depression can exacerbate anxiety further. Of course there is anxiety-depression and depression-anxiety, finding out which of the these an individual has is a crucial step towards providing sufficient aid. One of the large issues is how hard it can be untangles these two disorders which is an important step in therapy.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X00...