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MalikMuaddibSoong @startrek.website

1mo ago

My favorite part of the job

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the fact that these are strings instead of an object that is broken up by country code, area code, and number makes me irrationally angry.
- Could be tests for a parser to convert it from string to object.
  Not like your end users are going to type each piece into a separate field.
- i think you think that telephone numbers are well-structured. they are not. they are messy. they do not fit a certain schematic.
  I recommend also the following topic: "people have names". https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
  Names do not in general fit into the schematic "first name, last name"
  
  Is there not a "falsehoods programmers think about phone numbers" yet?
  Edit: And once again, I'm still confused about some of these. Do we need to expand unicode for names? It's supposed to be universal. WTF is up with 40?
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- You absolute buffoon. How do you figure this code isn't testing how to parse a string into such an object??
- Found the Java programmer...
  
  microsoft java :p
- You seem to enjoy overengineering your code, don't you?
- Better than an integer at least.
- "The number" is itself two parts hence the dash. The first section being the prefix and the last part being the line number.

I think it's commendable to vertically align code. (Just not with tabs.) It makes it look neater.
- We underutilize tabs. https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
  (Don't mistake this as me saying everyone should start using tabs immediately. This would take a drastic overhaul of all textual displays and we're likely to never see such a thing, but it's still a cool concept.)
  
  Good to see tabs' fundamental flaw was solved. I think I'll be switching to this.

Without monospacing....

Not gonna lie, that vertical alignment is making my brain purr like a kitten

Junior devs don’t know Jenny.
- It's true. Who's Jenny, for the zoomers in the chat?
  
  It was a very popular song in the 80s. Jenny’s phone number was 867-5309.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
  If you’re ever at a store and need a frequent shopper card, this number with your local area code is usually registered.

Could have stopped the meme at the top text to be honest

Tell me you are 40-50 without telling me

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