Name on card: Max U. Long
Rod notes that a lot of people have the phone number (214) 748-3647.
Related anecdote: On my first job out of school (coincidentally where I met Rod), we heard reports of a rare bug that caused customers’ credit card numbers to be corrupted. I sat down and stared at one of these invalid numbers for a little while; it was too short by several digits, and always the same number. Yes, it was 4294967295 (the largest unsigned int you can sneak into a 32-bit integer). The crazy part was that all of our processing code was in JavaScript, and the credit card was always treated as a string. As I recall, some of the persistence components provided by the middleware vendor (which were written in C++ but connected to the JavaScript) occasionally made the wrong type coercion. Ooops.