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This is when you expect the top HN comment to be: "hey I live in one of these homes, AMA." Fun post though. Something to add to "what developers should know ab
by d--b 9y ago
This is when you expect the top HN comment to be: "hey I live in one of these homes, AMA."
Fun post though. Something to add to "what developers should know about addresses"
- bshimmin 9y agoIf it helps, I grew up just off the A673 shown in the "BUT WAIT..." section (it's a pretty long road!).
- pjc50 9y agoI bet there's someone on HN who's tried to renumber their house to zero to see how many systems it crashes. There's a platform zero at King's Cross, along with the famous (not actually a platform) "Platform 9 and three quarters"
- arethuza 9y ago"0 Egmont Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 2HT" from https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... I couldn't work out from Streetview if it actually exists or not.
- bshimmin 9y agoThe Royal Mail postcode finder (http://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode http://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode) offers 1 and 1A for that postcode, but not 0. I had a look on Street View too and I think the houses to the left of number 1 (which you can clearly see) are probably 1A and belonging to the orthogonal road, respectively.
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- jerf 9y agoI love that what programmers should know about names, addresses, times, unicode, and everything else all basically boils down to "Look, basically, it's an opaque field and you should just give up all hope of ever understanding what is in the field. Just take it in blind from the user and hope that passing it blindly back out somewhere works." (To be clear, I don't actually "believe" in that level of defeatism per se. It's just that they all seem to end up there at the limit.)