Yeah, it's an anti-psychotic drug, some people with bipolar disorder even today still take it, it works really well for some people, for other people it doesn't work so well.

没错，它是一种用来治疗精神疾病的药物，患有躁郁症的人至今仍在用它来治疗，它对一部分人效果很好，但对其他人却不是这样。

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Sometimes that doesn't work out as well as we want it to.

有时候它也不会起到我们想要的作用。

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And I end up going back and doing unit testing anyway, to try and figure out why it doesn't work. So over the years, I've just convinced myself I might as well start where I'm going to end up.

第一次从来不会正常运行,因此无论如何我还要回头去做单元测试,找找哪儿出错了，因此经过这么多年，我已经说服自己既然一定要做单元测试,那么还是一开始就做最好了。

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It doesn't necessarily work out as well.

那些策略并不完全有效

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Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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