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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)

submitted 6 months ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 215 points 6 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 165 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 6 months ago

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

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Yeah, this is his daughter

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

they should have just used rust smh

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 6 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/

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Hey "java.lang.NullPointerException" can I borrow your pen?