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Set Date Of Birth Validation To 150 Years Old What Could Go Wrong
Backend Programming Webdev Frontend Testing
3 months ago 29.0M views 0 shares
Set Date Of Birth Validation To 150 Years Old What Could Go Wrong
So you thought setting your date of birth validator to accept anyone under 150 years old was being GENEROUS and INCLUSIVE? Congratulations, you've just granted Pharaoh Ramesses II a valid passport in 1976. The man died in 1303 BC and somehow your validation logic was like "yeah, seems legit, he's only 3,279 years old, well within our acceptable range!" This is what happens when developers write validation rules at 2 PM on a Friday thinking "nobody will EVER need to enter a date that old." Meanwhile, Egypt's out here issuing official government documents to mummies for restoration trips to France, and your form is just nodding along like "welcome aboard, your majesty." The real kicker? Someone at the Egyptian passport office in 1974 had to manually enter "-/+/1303 BC" into whatever system they were using, and it WORKED. Edge cases aren't just theoretical anymore when you're dealing with royalty that's been dead for three millennia. Maybe next time set that validation to "must be alive" instead of just "reasonably old."

If Code Was In The Real World
Frontend Webdev Javascript
1 year ago 274.5K views 2 shares
If Code Was In The Real World
The physical manifestation of CSS positioning gone wrong! That air conditioner hanging precariously off the wall is literally implementing margin-left: -25px; from the hotel-room.css file. This is what happens when you let front-end developers design actual buildings. The TV mounted in the corner is just waiting for its own negative margin property to send it crashing down. Props to whoever installed these - they followed the specs exactly as written, regardless of how catastrophically unsafe the result. Ship it to production!

Professional Habits Do Not Change
Programming Debugging Algorithms
1 year ago 325.3K views 0 shares
Professional Habits Do Not Change
When you've been coding for so long that you start indexing real-world objects from zero. Normal people would call this the first step, but programmers know better—it's obviously step[0]. The contractor probably spent years debugging array out-of-bounds exceptions and now can't help but apply zero-indexing to everything they build. Just wait until they number the floors in their next apartment building: Ground, 1, 2... just to watch the mathematicians and Europeans lose their minds.

My Zero-Indexed Elevator In Portugal
Programming Algorithms Frontend
1 year ago 246.1K views 0 shares
My Zero-Indexed Elevator In Portugal
Finally, an elevator designed by a programmer! The ground floor is 0, not 1, because arrays start at 0 and so should our buildings. That green button is practically screaming "I'm the selected index!" The non-programmers must be so confused when they hit "1" expecting the lobby but end up on what normal humans call the "second floor." Bet the building's GitHub repo has 47 open issues about "intuitive floor numbering" that the dev team has marked as "won't fix" and "working as intended."

Boolean Logic
Programming Algorithms Debugging Math
1 year ago 381.4K views 0 shares
Boolean Logic
Ah, the classic case of unintentional boolean logic in the wild! The sign says "We don't accept bills higher than 50 AND 100" which logically means they don't accept bills that are simultaneously higher than both 50 and 100. But since any bill higher than 100 is automatically higher than 50, this statement actually means "We don't accept bills higher than 100" - making the 50 completely redundant. Twenty years of coding and I still see this stuff everywhere. The number of times I've had to explain to product managers why "if user is premium AND has subscription" isn't what they actually meant... I've lost count. This is why we can't have nice things in production.