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Re: Domestic Abuse

Domestic Abuse. Daily Brickbats (2010-03-24):

In Canada, Yaowei Wu says Vancouver police dragged him from his home and beat him without provocation. The police were investigating a domestic abuse report but had gone to the wrong address. Police originally claimed he resisted arrest but later said that wasn’t true.

You got served and protected. (Cont’d.)

Re: ‘No Dashes or Spaces’ Hall of Shame

!!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;No Dashes or Spaces' Hall of Shame. Daring Fireball (2010-03-24):

Calling out sites that force you to enter, say, credit card numbers, in a precise format, even though removing things like spaces and dashes is programmatically trivial. (Via Sarah Harrison.)  â˜… 

There is no reason ever to force your user to remove spaces or dashes from a credit card number or a phone number. Not being able to s/[^0-9]+// is sheer barbarism.

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