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                 The feeling when your new task is already done
                                        
“The ‘Project: Heimdall’ team now want all the numbers,” said TS1, my fellow
cow-orker.

“Really?” I asked. “They can finally deal with international phone numbers?” 

“Apparently yes. So ‘Project: Sippy-Cup [1]’ needs to open the flood gates
and let all the numbers through. But make it configurable.” 

“Okay.” 

So I dive into the code for “Project: Sippy-Cup” and … what's this? The code
is already in place. From last year. When it was clear that “Project:
Heimdall” could not, in fact, handle all the numbers! I remember it was
annoying having to send all NANP (North American Numbering Plan) numbers
(those that are 10 digits, like “501-555-1212”), even the malformed, invalid
NANP numbers (like “501-511-1212”), while making sure I didn't pass along
valid, international numbers that also happened to be 10 digits long (like
“501-555-1212 [2]”). Now that the “Project: Heimdall” team has to deal with
the crap we get … well … good luck. We're all counting on you [3].  

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2014/03/05.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/04/23.2
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMoH55T-oI

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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