The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

zzo38 · 2012-09-05 Reply Admin

Steve The Cynic:
And if it isn't a number, don't take short cuts and store it in a data type meant for storing numbers.

What if it is BCD?

2012-09-14 Reply Admin

A number is, among other things "a numeral or group of numerals." So yes, it is, in fact a PIN/SSN.

2012-10-13 Reply Admin

Why not just count pins or rather unique pins?

2013-04-03 Reply Admin

Java programmers never learned about 'unsigned'.

Would have left 2/3 of the numbers, without any more bytes storage... ;-)

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