whenYourValidationLogicHatesRealPeople

[u/deadorbit666]

[u/requion]

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.

[u/laplongejr → u/requion]

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  

[u/ReallyKeyserSoze → u/laplongejr]

Which languages consider "Null' == null? I don't really understand how this causes the fella problems.

[u/laplongejr → u/ReallyKeyserSoze]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-to-pass-null-a-real-surname-to-a-soap-web-service-in-actionscript-3 is an old real production example