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Reminds me of a story a police reservist told me. Guy got a license plate caled "none," and instantly had thousands of outstanding warrants. (The cop thought "none" was trying a fast one, and so deserved it.)
As long as we're playing the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" game again, here's the relevant patio11 article: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... If you try to validate names, or if you don't safely escape names along with your other user-input strings, you're gonna have a bad time.
It is Hélder Maurício Gomes Ferreira Filho
Common reasons for failure is being too long and having non ASCII characters, but sometimes it fails for other reasons, for example do not allow me to register without a middle name ( I don't haven't one actually... ), me confused and not knowing how to register Filho ( it is not a family name, neither a surname or a last name, but it is still part of my name. It means Son, my father has the same name as me, without the Filho part), or breaking when it cross check with somewhere ( for several reasons I ended registering my name in several different ways, usually omitting Hélder, that I did not even knew was on my name until I got to school and got forced to use because of stupid rules that assume your first name is your typical name )
XML is a terrible encoding for data. Fortunately JSON does pretty well and has mostly replaced it for new stuff.
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Weird, because makes a distinction between int and string.
Python makes a distinction between types, but it has a concept of falsyness (as do many languages, though it is often more restricted e.g. in Ruby only false and nil are falsy IIRC). Falsyness is used in boolean-ish contexts (if, while and explicit boolean conversion), by default all of None (null), False, 0, 0.0, "" (the empty string, unicode or binary) and empty collections ([], (), {}, set()) are falsy and althoug…
Reminds me of a story a police reservist told me. Guy got a license plate caled "none," and instantly had thousands of outstanding warrants. (The cop thought "none" was trying a fast one, and so deserved it.)
What do you know, there's an xkcd for that too: http://xkcd.com/1105/
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Python makes a distinction between types, but it has a concept of falsyness (as do many languages, though it is often more restricted e.g. in Ruby only false and nil are falsy IIRC). Falsyness is used in boolean-ish contexts (if, while and explicit boolean conversion), by default all of None (null), False, 0, 0.0, "" (the empty string, unicode or binary) and empty collections ([], (), {}, set()) are falsy and althoug…
GForth uses 0 for 'false' but -1 for 'true'... that confuses me a lot.
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Welcome to the world of (a) standards (b) poorly implemented standards (c) poorly implemented programmers :-)
I blame c. Those mothers should learn how to implement their programmers.
I had an aunt named Nan, I wonder what her disbursement checks were like :-)
I have a photo of the receipt at http://www.righto.com/2008/05/importance-of-software-testing...