Asking the real questions
Asking the real questions
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"We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return."
You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.
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someone tried that with their license plate, it turned out well: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
edit: archive link
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I just realized that the shitty software on the other side of the divide is casting
nullto ”null", which absolutely explains that issue. What a cluster-
Yeah, I love to rag on languages with weak typing, because of the potential for a bug, but seeing it play out in reality, directly with user input, that's certainly something else.
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shudders in NodeJS
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He is being too nice. He needs to get a lawyer and sue that shitty company for harassment and whatever else.
ETA: The US isn't overly litigious. We are under litigious if anything.
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Large corporations are overly litigious. Individuals can't afford to be litigious enough.
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Yeah, this is his daughter
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they should have just used rust smh
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Oh no, it gets worse:
Prank or not, Tartaro was playing with fire by going with NULL in the first place. “He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents. “All you ever get is errors and crashes and headaches.”
Archive link: https://archive.ph/o/Foe1r/https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
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undefined
Ca\r\rie
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Hey "java.lang.NullPointerException" can I borrow your pen?
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