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Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers
- sweetjane 11y agoi don't follow
- GFischer 11y agoWell, his parents couldn't name him Bobby Tables, so he has to go by Christopher Null instead :) https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/ Just tested it on my programs and they don't have a problem with his name fortunately. How did Bank of America start parsing "null" in the middle of an email address, I don't know...
- Amorymeltzer 11y agoWell it was info@nullmedia, so presumably enterprising young fool just wrote: if $hostname =~ m/^null/
- cafard 11y agoThe household diet briefly suffered from my spouse's taking the dietician Gary Null semi-seriously. If only Pacifica's scheduling software had suffered the flaw...
- andyana 11y agoI'm not buying it. In what popular language would 'Null Media LLC' as a string have 'Null ' dropped from it. You'd be bending over backwards to write a system that would do that. If his last name was an escape sequence, I could understand.
- breakingcups 11y agoString.Replace("NULL", ""); //Just in case --Mark
- andyana 11y ago"replace null with" returns almost 70 million results on google, so maybe this is a more common occurrence than I believed.
- dragonwriter 11y ago"replace null with" will include lots of hits relating to situations where you substitute database nulls with a default value (all of the hits I get on the first page seem to be that kind of thing, from the snippet), rather than replacing the string "null" with an empty string in a string. So, those 70 million hits are probably not an indicator of the popularity of the latter practice.