Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
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#2For a copious list of falsehoods you or other programmers might believe, see also: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
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#3Alright, guess I'll be using email verification
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#4I find this category of posts ("falsehoods programmers believe about X") to be patronizing and unhelpful. Most of these lists (this one included) don't give good explanations and don't have guidelines for how to avoid the problems that are highlighted. It's usually just a list of condescending gotchas.
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#5I would personally add one (maybe I'll do a PR): Phone number formats never change for a particular country.
Vietnam just removed a few months ago one digit of all the mobile phones making all the previous number recorded for the country invalid.
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#6Repeat after me: After reading this I realise the difficulty in using phone verification while scaling internationally.
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#7"Users will only store phone numbers in your product's phone number fields"
Not entirely sure what this point is trying to achieve. Do you read a birthday field expecting a phone number 99% of the time? Should you read a phone number field expecting an email address? And at what point in that process did you decide that not having data validation on both ends was a good idea?
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#8I find this category of posts ("falsehoods programmers believe about X") to be patronizing and unhelpful. Most of these lists (this one included) don't give good explanations and don't have guidelines for how to avoid the problems that are highlighted. It's usually just a list of condescending gotchas.
Isnt every language unique?
I feel like this teaches a way of thinking.
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#9So basically phone numbers are one or more alphanumeric fields.
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#10Alright, guess I'll be using email verification
Cool, I have a bulletproof regex for that