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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 222 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)
[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 87 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 10 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.

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

shudders in NodeJS

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Large corporations are overly litigious. Individuals can't afford to be litigious enough.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

they should have just used rust smh

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, this is his daughter

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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/