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stryter
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At my last gig, part of our business process was to generate a unique human-readable ID that could tie an individual to our product and service. Well, we had a few rather superstitious, paranoid and vocal customers who felt 'uneasy' when they received their unique ID with 666 in it.

So after having a good laugh and roll on the floor, I got to write an exorciseUniqueId() method that compelled the evil numbers to stop possessing those innocent IDs!

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  • 1
    Lol people. Humans are so weird.
  • 0
    So you just wouldn't use any numbers with 3 consecutive 6's in it?
  • 0
    Pretty much lol. The logic was fairly basic from what I remember. We'd generate the ID and then check for 'the mark'. If it was found, the ID would be thrown out and a new one generated.
  • 1
    @stryter but is the code itself protected from Satan?

    If not then one little bug could infect your whole application with satanic influences
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