We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
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Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#2Numerous bugs on github were attributed to the guy with user name 0. He evaluates to false in many PHP applications, too.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#3I had an aunt named Nan, I wonder what her disbursement checks were like :-)
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#4As 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.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#5Numerous bugs on github were attributed to the guy with user name 0. He evaluates to false in many PHP applications, too.
Ditto for Python (int 0 at least).
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#6Reminds 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.)
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#7Ah, we call him little bobby tables.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#8Ah, we call him little bobby tables. http://xkcd.com/327/
Beat me to the obligatory Bobby Tables joke.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#9Reminds 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/