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When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works (www.wsj.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The word, used by computer scientists to mean ‘no value,’ has created long-running challenges

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Taking the issue at face value, I wonder what Johnny Null's workaround would be for his (or their) name?

N'ull? Nul-l? \Null? Null? JohnnyN ull?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Definitely not N'ull, that would trigger a SQL error when it can't interpret the ull after the string delimiter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If they're not sanitizing that, they deserve to have their system broken lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

--Null

[–] VerifiedSource 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

NuII works

Spoiler

Upper case i