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by soco 1737 days ago
It's sometimes difficult to believe how much misguided logic is put into input validation. Addresses which must have a street and a number, middle names not allowed, valid postal codes not recognized or auto-filling the wrong town, arbitrary maximum length for street names, and I could go on. We programmers (or we product managers?) invest way too much time in nonsense.
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I really hate this. I've seen separate input fields for street number and street name. Meanwhile you have vendors with street addresses like "Vodafone House, The Connection, Newbury RG14 2FN"