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Perfect example of "post your professional experiences on HN and get it ripped apart immediately." On PANs - sure. However, I (personally) have seen odd-digit

Perfect example of "post your professional experiences on HN and get it ripped apart immediately." On PANs - sure. However, I (personally) have seen odd-digit PANs but also deal with an industry that sees literally EVERY type of CC number you can imagine from all different areas of the world. Your experience (like mine) is anecdotal. But, here's the kicker - I HAVE to go with what VISA tells me to do because of their individual PCN integration requirements. If VISA is telling me "hey - it's a best practice to support all of our potential PAN formats even though 99% are going to be 16 digit" then I have to support that =) On phone # formatting - sure. If your use case is the US and Canada things become MUCH more standardized for everything from banking data, to addresses, to (of course) phone numbers. However - I see foreign/odd phone # formats from the Americas constantly as not all the people who are here at this time have a local phone provider. (ie: travel). I concede on number formatting - but I still use it because (IMO) it has the best/most-consistent mobile experience vs. custom libraries. On date formatting - sure. "also sucks, btw" let's tell the users WHY it sucks because otherwise it's just trusting some random guy on the internet. But yea - cool fork on codepen.

NDT 8y ago
Well, you did call this project "hot garbage trash." Surely you can take a little criticism.
- jplayer01 8y ago
  Seems to me like he took the criticism perfectly well and responded in a fair, respectful way.
leeoniya 8y ago
> Perfect example of "post your professional experiences on HN and get it ripped apart immediately." that's why i try not to make blanket statements without qualifications about my specific case. know your customer, and all. we also have a direct phone line prominently shown in our header, so for those who do encounter issues, they simply call in to finish their order and we're happy to sell them additional things and/or give them better pricing. it's one of those odd "worse is better" situations. our product takes some planning before purchase and is not a commodity you can buy elsewhere (we mfg). those who start the checkout process are unlikely to leave if they encounter minor issues. if you're strictly a reseller, with no sales phone support, or have a huge international market, then sure, a lot of what we can get away with could lose a chunk of buyers to competitors for someone else.

NDT 8y ago

Well, you did call this project "hot garbage trash." Surely you can take a little criticism.

jplayer01 8y ago
Seems to me like he took the criticism perfectly well and responded in a fair, respectful way.

leeoniya 8y ago

> Perfect example of "post your professional experiences on HN and get it ripped apart immediately." that's why i try not to make blanket statements without qualifications about my specific case. know your customer, and all. we also have a direct phone line prominently shown in our header, so for those who do encounter issues, they simply call in to finish their order and we're happy to sell them additional things and/or give them better pricing. it's one of those odd "worse is better" situations. our product takes some planning before purchase and is not a commodity you can buy elsewhere (we mfg). those who start the checkout process are unlikely to leave if they encounter minor issues. if you're strictly a reseller, with no sales phone support, or have a huge international market, then sure, a lot of what we can get away with could lose a chunk of buyers to competitors for someone else.