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
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.
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.”
“We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return.”
You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.
Hey “java.lang.NullPointerException” can I borrow your pen?
Ca\r\rie
someone tried that with their license plate, it turned out well: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
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 clustershudders in NodeJS
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.
they should have just used rust smh
Oh no, it gets worse:
Archive link: https://archive.ph/o/Foe1r/https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
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.
Large corporations are overly litigious. Individuals can’t afford to be litigious enough.
Yeah, this is his daughter