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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over

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Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Hopefully not the headline of this article. *Peeks*
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    My academic advisor in college was named Null

    Even I kept running into trouble because the system thought I didn’t have a registered advisor.

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      I have never seen this happen, and I don’t know what tools would confuse the strings “null” or “Null” with NULL. From the comments in this thread, there are evidently more terribly programmed systems than I imagined.

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        Shit happens, mistakes are sometimes made. Valve once had code that could delete your entire drive.

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        I’m pretty sure at least some of the university’s systems were designed by students.

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        As long as there’s javascript somewhere, anything can happen

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          Sounds like a promise of magic!

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        Two likely reasons:

        • CSV got involved somewhere
        • JavaScript

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