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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 217 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return."

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 166 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
[–] 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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 170 points 1 week ago (22 children)

I have an apostrophe and it's super annoying as some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.

So I've received ID with Mc%20dole or they add a space in it. Or I'll get a work email with an apostrophe but I cant use it anywhere because sites have it disabled. And I've missed my flight because I changed my ticket once to add the apostrophe and the system just broke at the gate.

Worse yet many flight companies have "you will not be able to board if your ID doesn't exactly reflect your details" but their form doesn't allow it. Even most forms for card payments don't allow it even though it's the name on my card.

[–] AdNecrias@lemmy.pt 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

%20 is encoded space if I remember right, so even then they were already incorrect

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

It sounds like maybe they sanitized the apostrophe to a space and then encoded it

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[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's also the version with examples if you want to know exactly what and why it breaks.

And the git that collects all of these in one place, if you want to really nerd out.

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[–] agilob@programming.dev 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I have an apostrophe and it’s super annoying as some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.

My surname contains a character that's only present in the Polish alphabet. Writing my full name as is broke lots of systems, encoding, printed paperwork and even British naturalisation application on Home Office website. My surname was part of my username back at uni, and everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 161 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

asking questions like this is how i found out that one of the allowed characters in names in my country is ÿ, which is fine in Latin-1 but in 7-bit ASCII is DEL.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds like it would create a whole list of fun and irritating edge conditions for some poor bugger to debug. Love it.

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If someone else has to debug the problems caused by a parent naming their child with a special character, does that make the parent the bugger? 🤔

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago

that's amazing! Aren't codecs fun

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 113 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago (4 children)

John\0Doe will fuck with all C (and C based derivatives) software that touches it.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago

Nah, it will end up simply as "John" in the database. You need "John%sDoe" to crash C software with unsafe printf() calls, and even then it's better to use several "%s"

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 88 points 1 week ago (12 children)

There are a frightening number of systems that don't allow "-", which isn't even an edge case. A lot of people - mostly women - hyphenate their last names on marriage, rather than throw their old name away. My wife did. She legally changed her name when she came of age, and when we met and married years later she said, "I paid for money for my name; I'm not letting it go." (Note: I wasn't pressuring her to take my name.) So she hyphenated it, and has come to regret the decision. She says she should have switched, or not, but the hyphen causes problems everywhere. It's not a legal character in a lot of systems, including some government systems.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It boggles my mind how so many websites and platforms incorrectly say my e-mail address is 'invalid' because it has an apostrophe in it.

No. It is NOT invalid. I have been receiving e-mails for years. You just have a shitty developer.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago (6 children)

worst thing is, the regex to check email has been available for decades and it's fine with apostrophies

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[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Once I was tasked with doing QA testing for an app which was planned to initially go live in the states of Georgia and Tenessee. One of the required fields was the user's legal name. I therefore looked up the laws on baby names in those two states.

Georgia has simple rules where a child's forename must be a sequence of the 26 regular Latin letters.

Tenessee seemed to only require that a child's name was writable under some writing system, which would imply any unicode code point is permissible.

At the time, I logged a bug that a hypothetical user born in Tenessee with a name consisting of a single emoji couldn't enter their legal name. I reckon it would also be legal to call a Tenessee baby 'John '.

[–] dan@upvote.au 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sounds like you did a thorough job as a QA tester. As a software engineer, I love to see it.

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[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 week ago

im sure the devs tasked at fixing that bug loved u ;-)

[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (21 children)

Not legal in Canada. Your legal name must use Latin characters only. This is a sore point for indigenous people.

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What's the answer? I need the link

Edit: I found it

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, cause "John\nDoe" messes up my regex. Sorry, out of the question. I'm not good with regex.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

no one is "good" with regex.

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[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Just noticed that the listing for ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES"; -- LTD has been redacted by the government website‽

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[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sibling of Bobby Drop Tables

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[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can I kill someone who wants to do this? How do I legally get away with it?

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Plead permanent sanity. If I was the judge I would let you go.

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Not legal in Sweden. Our "IRS" must also accept the name and deem it legal.

I for one like this. As it stops some very stupid people to name their children some very stupid names. Such as "Adolf Hitler".

And yes. Someone did try to name their child this and they were appropriately stoped from doing it.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 51 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If elected president my first order of business will be to make all birth certificates fully unicode compatible.

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[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

C programmers would ask whether a null-terminated name would be acceptable

[–] PanoptiDon@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ask Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; 's mum how it went.

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[–] Busyvar@jlai.lu 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Frontend devs hates this guy.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I want the char 8 that makes a beep.

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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

NaN,
Not a Number, and now Not a Name

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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can't pronounce a newline, so there's that.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago

John
(long pause)
Doe

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[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's impossible to represent that on paper. It could be misrepresented as a specific number of spaces. Depending on the position on the paper, it may also be hard to tell if the carriage return comes with the line feed. Unless you want the document to be in ASCII or EBCDIC hex, it's like writing an ambiguous math problem where the answer is different depending on how you were taught about the order of operations. Don't do this to your kid, Abcde.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

why settle for \n when you can go for the stylish carriage return

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