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My academic advisor in college was named Null
Even I kept running into trouble because the system thought I didn't have a registered advisor.
I have never seen this happen, and I don't know what tools would confuse the strings "null" or "Null" with NULL. From the comments in this thread, there are evidently more terribly programmed systems than I imagined.
Shit happens, mistakes are sometimes made. Valve once had code that could delete your entire drive.
I'm pretty sure at least some of the university's systems were designed by students.
As long as there's javascript somewhere, anything can happen
Sounds like a promise of magic!
Two likely reasons: