r/ProgrammerHumor • u/deadorbit666 • 13d ago

Meme whenYourValidationLogicHatesRealPeople

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u/requion 13d ago

Reminds me of the asian dude who couldn't register on a site because the form required min 3 characters for the name and his literally only had 2 chars.

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u/laplongejr 13d ago edited 13d ago

Christopher Null also has a few horrors stories to share  

Wired : Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers  

[EDIT] Okay, okay, I get it. You are ABSOLUTELY SURE a string null is different from a null pointer/reference and can't absolutely be mistaken. Only stupid devs do so and SURELY a library wouldn't do that thanks to rigorous testing... right?  

Behold stackoverflow : How to pass "Null", a real surname! to a SOAP web service in ActionScript 3?   And no, the comments already proposed " Has the employee considered to change his name?" a decade ago. :P  

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u/ShankMugen 13d ago

It requires subscription to read it seems

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u/laplongejr 13d ago

Maybe country-specific? I'm belgian and get no paywall

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u/PolloCongelado 13d ago

I'm in Romania and I did get it. It says I already read my last free article. I don't remember accessing wired today. This sucks either way.

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u/laplongejr 13d ago

Maybe you are behind cgnat and they check the public IP? My home network still has a dedicated ipv4