I bet you thought you'd never see another one of these
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From my school's recent student survey, hosted by surveymonkey:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/curtmack/wow.png
Sorry about the size, it's Photobucket's fault. Using a JPEG didn't help.
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I guess an integer value check was too much trouble.
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Clearly this is a security measure. By separating the student ID out into separate fields, the programmer guaranteed it would be harder for h4><0rz to capture and reconstruct the full ID. This would be especially useful for the forward-thinking, security-conscious universities that use SSN as student ID, thus increasing security by having fewer arbitrary numbers for students to memorize.
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Maybe it's made for Devices with a touchscreen and no keyboard. Also no on-screen-keyboard and the browser doesn't have javascript too.
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@HAX said:
Maybe it's made for Devices with a touchscreen and no keyboard. Also no on-screen-keyboard and the browser doesn't have javascript too.
Such as?
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Some kind of kiosk box they have in the lobby?
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@DescentJS said:
@HAX said:
Maybe it's made for Devices with a touchscreen and no keyboard. Also no on-screen-keyboard and the browser doesn't have javascript too.
Such as?
My brand new PDA! I'll give you a hint: It's 70% nitrogen. There's some oxygen in there too.
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I see a thought pattern of "putting a check constraint on the database field and validating the textbox before submitting it with a regex is too crazy an idea for this world", but I can't quite understand how the developer arrived at that conclusion.
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@Dudehole said:
I see a thought pattern of "putting a check constraint on the database field and validating the textbox before submitting it with a regex is too crazy an idea for this world", but I can't quite understand how the developer arrived at that conclusion.
The developer was probably one of those people who likes to post the regex quote about two problems.
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@DescentJS said:
The developer was probably one of those people who likes to post the regex quote about two problems.
[quote user="Jamie W. Zawinski"]Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.[/quote]