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Adventures in Dysfunction

Symptoms of broken and absurd systems

Programmers Imagine the Most Ridiculous Ways to Enter a Phone Number into a Form

By Keith Collins / qz.com

A co-worker encountered a form on an internal site the other day where the input field for an alphanumeric ID was set up erroneously as an integer field with a step value. Whenever he tried to enter his ID, the field stripped the letters and rounded the remaining numbers to the nearest 10,000 or something dumb like that.

The Looks on their Faces…

…just about says it all

This photo cracked me up. Apparently, the ‘leader of the free world’ went a bit off the rails (again) and launched into another tirade against a reporter at a press conference the other day. The looks on the faces of the staff behind him—especially Mike Pompeo—are priceless.