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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

submitted 8 months ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 222 points 8 months ago

"We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return."

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 171 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 87 points 8 months ago

I just realized that the shitty software on the other side of the divide is casting null to ”null", which absolutely explains that issue. What a cluster

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 31 points 8 months ago

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.