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/

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

shudders in NodeJS

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this is his daughter

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

they should have just used rust smh

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Ca\r\rie

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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