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The returned string had the info a customer concatenated, like this:
Pete McDonald 5519500303
The instructions - to extract the data - were: The indexes from 0 to 9 will contain the name (please trim the trailing spaces)
The indexes from 10 to 19 will contain the last name (same, please trim)
20 to 21 will contain the age of the customer
the rest of the string contains the customer's birthday
EDIT: formatting"We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, working hard to restore service"
A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. You should tell them, "When all of the python code on your computer is Python 3, then I'll try to learn it." That should keep them busy for about 10 years.
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"In technology, the low end always eats the high end. It's easier to make an inexpensive product more powerful than to make a powerful product cheaper. So the products that start as cheap, simple options tend to gradually grow more powerful till, like water rising in a room, they squash the "high-end" products against the ceiling."
"It's very dangerous to let anyone fly under you. If you have the cheapest, easiest product, you'll own the low end. And if you don't, you're in the crosshairs of whoever does."