Several years ago, computer engineer Joseph Tartaro
changed his
license plate
to read:
“NULL.” It was
an experiment.
With this new
plate, he
wondered,
would he ever
get a traffic
ticket again?
Underlying his
question was a
simple fact:
to a computer,
“NULL” means
empty.
This week we
find out what
happened to
Joseph
(spoiler, it
didn’t go as
planned) and
hear from
folks who feel
cursed by
their last
name Null.
Read: a
list of all
the wrong
assumptions
about names
that are
embedded in
the code of
many web sites. |
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