tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496482.post7004676736765456372..comments2024-03-26T03:20:19.840-04:00Comments on For Some Value of "Magic": Lazy Programmers, Installment 315Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15732819755000554717noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496482.post-34838527330328172292010-10-26T22:40:52.412-04:002010-10-26T22:40:52.412-04:00I think the fact that it's possible to impose ...I think the fact that it's <em>possible</em> to impose various constraints, validation, etc. convinces many programmers that they <em>should</em> exercise a sort of smug sort of power over their silly little demenses - that we hold the power of the code, so the users should accommodate us, instead of the other way around.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12229578427522022392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496482.post-3643911990692348482010-10-26T03:31:12.023-04:002010-10-26T03:31:12.023-04:00Agreed. On the UK T-Mobile website. There is a for...Agreed. On the UK T-Mobile website. There is a form where you enter your phone number. I normaly cut and paste my number from my contacts list. The T-Mobile form not ony insists "digits only" (which would be OK-ish, though pointless and annoying, if this was made clear on the page, but it's not), but some muppet has set a maximum character count for the field. This causes the string to be truncated if you paste in anything other than the naked digits, so you can't easily edit the string in the field to fit with their stupid limitation, which should be handled in code anyway. I end up having to go via a text editor.<br /><br />Pisses me off every time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com