BBC - Future - These unlucky people have names that break computers
www.bbc.com/future/story/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems
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Article totally missed the fact that null to a programmer is not a string and that a system that thinks "null" == null is true is broken in very serious ways. The author should have interviewed the infamous Ry4an Brase!
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