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Logic Gem found at work today.
if (value != null) {
return value;
} else {
return null;
}
😂 😂😂😂😂😂10 -
Well Google.. I have been shouting null at you but you don't seem to respond. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME??
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Seen in code:
public String getX(){
if (x != null){
return x;
}
else return null;
}
... I'm not gonna like looking at the rest of this, am I?11 -
My mobile service provider just null me a null saying nullnull
Null can't even null their null null
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Seems like they didn't properly handle the case for when the product isn't in their database anymore.
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One of my coworkers uses
if(null == something())
I know it's just coding style, but it fucking annoys me.18 -
Apparently `= NULL` is not a thing in mysql, instead you have to use `IS NULL`... Took me a while to figure out why the fuck my query wasn't returning any results.8
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Even during games, I find bugs in it...
Just found NULL in FIFA GAME.
Wonder which object failed to pass it's value
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Oh null, how I detest you.
select birthdate, isnull(birthdate) from Users;
>> [null, 0]
Maybe I wrongfully accuse the abstract concept, and should rather loathe the engineers who can't wrap their heads around null despite their heads being a skull literally wrapping fucking nothingness.
Oracle engineers:
"Wait that's invalid input. What do we do?"
"Default the date to 0000-00-00?"
"That kind of looks like a null..."
"Hmm but it isn't *really* a full-on, butt-clenching, hardcore, intrinsic, I-can-taste-it-in-the-air null"
"Yeah not really feeling it either. It's not giving me the typical null-goosebumps."
"Oh, I know! Let's make it a pretend-null, where the actual type totally depends on the layer of the application!"
"Yeah developers love ambiguous random conversions!"4 -
I once had a flash usb stick which i tried to rename to "/dev/null" just for the lols
Just to see the face of newbies as i pull files out of /dev/null 😂😂3 -
Who the hell decided to put 'null' in JavaScript when there is already an 'undefined'
...😤😡...
Like one empty value isn't enough24 -
Same days you just need a duck.
Me: map.get(record.Id)
Code: null
Me: no, map.get(record.id)
Code: null
Me: let's grab this record from the map
Code: null
Me: what the flying fuck, take this fucking ID from this fucking RECORD and find it in THIS god forsaken map.
Code: null
Me:.......
Code: 😉
Duck: did it occur to you the ID exists only AFTER the map is created.
Me: you fucking wha..... oh I'm a dick head.7 -
Aren't the spirits of the two mottos the same?
"72-10 don't mean a thing without the ring!"
&
"It's null till you ship it."
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The intern: FUUUUCK, WHY ISN'T MY CODE WORKING?
Me: Lemme check real quick... ok, that's a null pointer exception.
The intern: Again? Man, I'm growing desperate. How do I stop making these errors?
My dumb ass with my 4 years coding experience, who encountered a nullpointerexception literally 5 minutes earlier: """"°-°""""11 -
By someone who reviewed my code. "Put a null check in the catch block for the exception....cuz some times exception itself might be null..."
And by that he/she means,
catch (Exception e){
if (e != null) {....}
}12 -
Alright then...
At least it parsed null as a string. Better than crashing, but the correct url would have been slightly better.
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YOU MEAN TO ACTUALLY FKN TELL ME IT TOOK YOU 3 DAYS TO FIGURE OUT AN "QueryFailedError: null value in column "id" violates not-null constraint" ERROR??? GTFO. These fkn "fullstack" consultants man...1
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Today I read one article. A guy last name is "Null". Every time he gets frustrat when filling online forms. Most of forms validation will not accept "Null" as a value.
here's the link to article
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
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String nullabity check duel...
null, isEmpty(), "", " ", '', ' ', " null", boolean, NaN, undefined, isNullOrEmpty and finally try-catch
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Sometimes you need someone to be your /dev/null with whom you can talk about all that fucked up shit going on in your mind.
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!rant
Question time for you very few Salesforce devs out there, yea I know there’s some.
Seeing as Google is not my friend today, I’m trying to get SOQL to return null valued fields back to a rest api, something this hunk of shit won’t do, and short of looping back through all the records and injecting these fields back in, I’m at a loss... any advise is welcome 🤯 -
CTO: We'll use epochs for any time related fields in our services.
After service integration...
Dev from producer team: Hey the time field is showing up as 1970 and not null in your table. That seems to be a bug.
Me: Code looks fine. We are converting epochs to timestamps here. Null is taken care by the library function itself.
The same dev: Actually we are sending zero instead of null values in that time field. But we'd want the end table to treat that as null.
Me: Why can't you send null then?
The dev: Actually avro doesn't support nulls. Hence the zero.
Me: WTF??????
Manager to me: Actually you need to convert them as null. Anyways, this is not a blocker and we can live with it for now.
END OF RANT
Why can't they fucking send it as null? And when I asked about the details, that particular event type doesn't require that field. Still the manager insists on sending that field for it.23 -
Somebody created a new database field of type varchar(10) and then filled it with the string 'NULL' for every row. Now, everybody is having to figure out for themselves that these aren't actual NULL values when running scripts.2
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Continued from https://devrant.com/rants/1910270/...
nullnull is the new doot doot
Any other Airtel user getting this?
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This may be the best Stack Overflow comment I have seen when learning SQL.
How old is Frank? I don't know (null).
How old is Shirley? I don't know (null).
Are Frank and Shirley the same age?
Correct answer should be "I don't know" (null), not "no", as Frank and Shirley mightbe the same age, we simply don't know1 -
Uninitialized pointer is not the same as NULL pointer !
Uninitialized pointer is not the same as NULL pointer !
Uninitialized pointer is not the same as NULL pointer !
Uninitialized pointer is not the same as NULL pointer !5 -
when you have one of those days where your mind constantly blanks out and your ability to focus is null...
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I have a bug that shows null but i got an "null" string which is nasty. To someone who did this, i'll find you and i'll kill you
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WHERE CASE WHEN field1 IS NOT NULL THEN ISNULL(field1,NULL) END = ISNULL(field2,NULL)
So many wrongs, my wrong-o-meter broke...2 -
This is the most wtf thing that happened me with Javascript, I had a regular expression and it caused bugs only with 4 digits long words, then I just noticed this:
/^.{3}$/.test(null) // false
/^.{4}$/.test(null) // true
What the fuck, I can't believe that who designed the .test method didn't think to avoid null coercion2 -
Forgot headphones, noticed coworkers conversation...
If null coalescing operator (??) returns right on null, why doesn't !! Do the opposite?
- boolean beat ya to it.1 -
These two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"
The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"
"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."1 -
Started a job as a full stack developer. My first task was shocking! Do these small edits on this backend script that collects stuff from one database and edits the entries in another... piece of cake so far!
Here is the project on the TFS...
HOLD ON! IS THIS VISUAL BASIC?!!
I came here to do .Net framework development and .Net Standard... I wasn’t told that there will be VB, I have never used vb.net before.
Now... that I’m going to maintain this script in the future, I decided to rewrite it in C#, few things I learned on my journey of doing this:
1- There is an access modifier in VB called Friend
2- There is a data structure/type called Collection, it’s a value,key pair! Not key value pair... Value first, then key!!
3- Do you know how null is null everywhere?!! In VB they call it Nothing! Yes, as in...
if(myVar == nothing)
{
//stuff
}
Asking the guy responsible for that choice... he thinks VB is easier to read than C#
I DONT WANT YOU TO READ IT, I WANT IT TO MAKE SENSE AND WORK WITH THE REST OF THE C# CODE WE HAVE!!9 -
Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers.
This guy is the best user case.
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/3 -
When writing code that has to be evaluated by a college prof, redirect all the best practices to /dev/null2
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Null Pointer Exception
Null Pointer Exception,
you're in a class of your own.
I will try and catch you,
each instance you're thrown.
Null objects expel you,
because you are vile.
I dread that I'll c you,
when I attempt to compile.
Like the grim reaper,
you destroy lines of code.
And so to you,
I dedicate this ode.
You have no remorse
for those who won't test.
As a result,
I need to confess.
From time to time,
when there's no time waste.
I must rely
on cut and on paste.
Although we're acquainted,
I really must mention.
You're not my friend,
Null Pointer Exception. -
Spotify either being fancy at NULL or having encrypting problems 🤗😂
But I totally like to hear "more like �" 👌
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I think somewhere i read a quote from Gary Kasparov on his view on Chess.
He said that after certain point of mastering it, it becomes too much mental pain.
I think the same can be said about programming.
Devs really enjoy it, but sometimes, damn that Null pointer exception.1 -
Rant
Wtf are you taking man?
You’re supposed to be an experienced engineer but what the fuck are you doing leaking null pointer exceptions everywhere you go?
Just 1 more month. Good thing my manager isn’t renewing your contract.
Fuck!!!! -
NullPointerException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.....ummm what was null?
How much longer must we wait for a language that tells you the variable name that was null?2 -
Who in the right mind, would use NULL as an identifier for an essential part of their library and then NOT document it anywhere.
I spend approx 5 hours today, hunting down why my code was segfaulting.3 -
my C# dream:
if (Object.Property != null)
wouldn't produce an exception if the obejct is null but just equal to false5 -
Sometimes code is correct but so wrong. Came across this in a kotlin PR today
If (thing != null && thing!!.field != null) {2 -
How to get your website reach out people with no advertisements!?
1. Once it's built, make another mock up by changing a few main highlighted words to "(null)" or undefined!
2. Then send the link to any person in the software development field, anonymously!
That person will take care of the rest!
Note: don't forget to change the mock up with the original after u have sent the link!4 -
C# is getting so fucking obfuscated with these null check inceptions. Found the following in my company's code base. Why did it take me and 3 other devs an hour to figure out how to write this if statement into a flowchart?
if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(a?.Id ?? b[0]?.Id))...😫😫😫
FYI: We figured it and also found some bugs with logic, but can you? I'll post our flowchart if ranters are interested.
So to add to the madness:
if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(a?.Id ?? (b?.Any() ? b[0].Id : null)))...🤯🤯🤯23 -
I've just noticed, the rest of the world says things like "your check is null and void," as if those two things are one and the same.
Meanwhile, to us devs, they couldn't be any more different! Something can't be both null AND void! 😅8 -
Null-propagation operator and null coalesce all in one line makes me tingly.
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If there's one thing I'd gladly kill with fire, then pass it over a steamy steamroller, then burn it a tank of hot fluoroantimonic acid, is every fucking Java library that returns null instead of throwing a meaningful exception.
Is it really that difficult for you to throw an exception anyway, then let ME figure out if I can ignore it or not?
Thanks to you, now I have to do super messy reflection things just to figure why did you return a null.
I'm not your fucking psychologist trying to pull your inner secrets. But I have to be, for the sake of stability of my app. Which already has its own mess of problems on its own.7 -
location /dev/null {
if ($request_method = POST ) {
return 200;
}
if ($request_method = GET ) {
return 204;
}
}
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year2016 = null;
System.gc(); //garabge collect
Hope year2017 = new Year(2017, Property.MOREMEMES);2 -
reality: I saw null in the debugger here, causing the bug
add a null check
IDE: you don't need to check for null, this can't be null
what do you do when you can't trust the tools you work with8 -
java.lang.NullPointerException : null
at life.allProjects.LifetimeProjects.getMostSuccessfulProj(LifetimeProjects.java:139)~ -
NULL and '/0' are two different things. NULL is a null pointer. '/0' is a null byte. C handles those two differently enough to introduce some interesting issues. Helped a friend debug his code, execvp() was freaking out because he had tried to terminate his argv array with a null byte instead of a null pointer. As far as the system was concerned, that doesn't mean anything more than "oh look there's no string here." Big big difference.3
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if null was the billion dollar mistake https://hackernoon.com/null-the-bil...
then what is javascript with null and undefined24 -
So I have null, null, null and null message(sms) quota 🤔
* Who still use sms in 2017? Well I still use it
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/dev/null is like a black hole. You know it exists, but you cannot communicate with it. It has no output, only input. It swallows all data it can possibly get and nobody knows what it looks inside.4
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It's high time people start understanding the difference between 0 and NULL. A zero is a numerical 0 and null is just .4
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More glorious gems from stupid hipster API dev:
HTTP GET api.redacted.com/referral/$id
{
"referral_id" : null // yes it was actually null
"referral_is_inactive": true,
"referral_deactivated": false,
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Being a programmer it is not easy.
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Because you always have null pointer expression!!4 -
try{
someObject.someAttribute = (int?) reader["columnName"];
}catch{
someObject.someAttribute = null;
}
Or, same coworker, another piece of code:
if(((int?)reader["foo"]).HasValue){
bar = (int?)reader["foo"];
}else{
bar = null;
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Everytime when there is a compilation, rendering, downloading goin on... I jump around the house like an idiot....
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Spent quite some time debugging an odd problem.
A null check failed to trigger correctly, and when checking in eclipse I saw the null value.
Much digging later I finally noticed that the value wasn't null, it was "null", but eclipse doesn't quote strings...
The problem was that somebody at one time decided to convert an Integer to String by prepending an empty string...
Integer val=getInt()
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Just need to pass this json object to the controller as a string. Cool just a quick two minute job.
Three hours later and it's still passing null, what the apple fuckery is your problem?! -
#define AUDIOLB_EXIT_ON_ERROR(hres) \
if (FAILED(hres)) { goto Exit; }
#define AUDIOLB_SAFE_RELEASE(punk) \
if ((punk) != NULL) \
{ (punk)->Release(); (punk) = NULL; }
Looking through old audio code I wrote. Found these macros. Will most likely reuse for a new project. It works damnit!
Do you feel lucky?!7 -
Program-
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'addEventListener' of null !
Me: 🤔🤔
Modification
Program-
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'addEventListener' of null !
Me- Wtf!!! Again...🥺🥺
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After 6 hrs!!
Realized didn't Linked my main.js🧐🧐 -
Just found a 'Maybe' class that wraps an instance for null-safety. With arbitrary behaviour.
Like a good ol' if was a scary thing5 -
Today I wondered why the heck there where null-Elements in my list.
When searching for elements to add I check if this element == null after adding it to the list. Not my brightest idea. -
Angular2: Error: Unhandled exception, cannot read property "classList" of null
Me: element = doucment.getElementById("nameOfObject")
Angular2: Error: Unhandled exception, cannot read property "classList" of null
Me: DoWhatIWant();
Angular2: Success!1 -
We had C project in school about multi-process communication and syscalls. We worked in groups of three.
I made a "framework"(header file) with important prototypes and definitions of needed variable sizes.
One of group member decided to null his variable by bzero syscall (writes null bytes). He ignored my framework and typed literal "sizeof". Ofc nulled double the needed value and it nulled another variable with some TCP packet also.
Spend week trying to find what is wrong with it.
I hate group projects. -
Doesn't the existence of NULL in a language mean, that there cannot be a boolean type? Because a bool is defined by the fact, that it can have two possible values. Having NULL changes that.
Without NULL a variable of the type bool could be True or False, two possible values. With NULL is can be True, False or NULL, three possible values.
I hate NULL.18 -
Yesterday at midnight, I discovered why the Appveyor CI system for my project was failing sometimes for over three months.
If the commit message was only one line long, the environment variable holding the rest of them did not exist, and the function returned null.
One of the few times I don't say "The hell had I written!" when I discover a bug. -
Connecting local test server with live db for testing purposes. Needs 10 min to start up because much data is preloaded.
Checked against 0 instead of null in code. Big fat null pointer error greets. Another 10 mins lost. -
My boss is a very smart man, but sometimes he's superstitious as hell. He cannot trust context.list.find() in c# to accept null values, despite that being a thing forever. He's certain that it will break in a future entity framework update, so we have all these duplicate if statements all over our site.
If(blah == null){ //stuff}
Thing thing = context.things.find(blah);
If(thing == null){//stuff}
It kills me a little each time, but I guess he could be worse. I'm glad that he's finally trusting the null conditional operator, because it's a fucking lifesaver for duplicate code!3 -
It's high time people start understanding the difference between 0 (zero) and NULL.
Zero: You visiting the toilet and notice the exhausted toilet paper roll.
NULL: You visiting the toilet and notice that there's no toilet paper roll.
Get the difference?1 -
Why do people keep saying "kotlin is null safe, oh my god it's so safe, you don't have to worry about null's...". when all you have to do is add a question mark and BAM null-city!12
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Caused by: UcanaccessSQLException: UCAExc:::4.x.x external routine invocation exception: null value not allowed
Hmm.. Who could've thought `where rows_numbered.rownum = grouped.item_index` would ever yield a null...
Sometimes I can be such an idiot6 -
floating point numbers are workarounds for infinite problems people didn’t find solution yet
if you eat a cake there is no cake, same if you grab a piece of cake, there is no 3/4 cake left there is something else yet to simplify the meaning of the world so we can communicate cause we’re all dumb fucks who can’t remember more than 20000 words we named different things as same things but in less amount, floating point numbers were a biggest step towards modern world we even don’t remember it
we use infinity everyday yet we don’t know infinite, we only partially know concept of null
you say piece of cake but piece is not measurement - piece is infinite subjective amount of something
everything that is subjective is infinite, like you say a sentence it have infinite number of meanings, you publish a photo or draw a paining there are infinite number of interpretations
you can say there is no cake but isn’t it ? you just said cake so your mind want to materialize something you already know and since you know the cake word there is a cake cause it’s infinite once created
if you think really hard and try to get that feeling, the taste of your last delicious cake you can almost feel it on your tongue cause you’re connected to every cake taste you ate
someone created cake and once people know what cake is it’s infinite in that collection, but what if no one created cake or everyone that remember how cake looks like died, everything what’s cake made of extinct ? does it exist or is it null ? that’s determinism and entropy problem we don’t understand, we don’t understand past and future cause we don’t understand infinity and null, we just replaced it with time
there is no time and you can have a couple of minutes break are best explanations of how null and infinite works in a concept of time
so if you want to change the world, find another thing that explains infinity and null and you will push our civilization forward, you don’t need to know any physics or math, you just need to observe the world and spot patterns10 -
if (object != null)
{
WorldClock.clock.remove(object);
object.removeEventListeners(
SomeType);
object.dispose();
object = null;
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So I have spent the entire morning trying to fix null values in the database, because they keep fucking up my code.
I hate the fucking person who made the database at the place I work, dude has not heard of a thing called NOT NULL!!! -
Am I wrong to think my senior using an expiry date value null as forever weird or is this common practice?4
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So int and datetime are not nullable in c#, so you cant assign null to them
While you can't compare int to null (int a; a==null won't compile) you can do it with datetime objects.
Microsoft, can you please get your shit together?
Took me like an hour to realize my date is actually the 1.1.0001 and not null.1 -
How bash does not support redirecting stderr to /dev/null when using read redirection inside command substitution is F*CKING ANNOYING.
x=$(</foo/non_exitence_file.txt 2>/dev/null)
Why do people still use this shit of a shell?2 -
Glad to know I'm not the only one making such mistakes.
Edit: says: "Say "null" or tap on the microphone "
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Assert ref != NULL rather than conditional check it more often.
Silently returning / ignoring is way worse if object was meant to be valid.
The caller should deal with it. (As abstract as possible preferably...)
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Searching dev/null on wikipedia, learning about a alt.flame, searching alt.flame on google, finding a site called nigger.mania and OP asking for a way to reach alt.flame.niggers. WTF men ?!
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You should leave undefined to the browser and keep null for yourself.
Don't '' var keep = undefined; ",
Do " var keep = null; "1 -
Handling null like null is to be handled in production. And in current times null is good news (The app is of one of the most important german newspapers)
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Biggest deceit in Java developer's life : this value can never be null, leave that extra null check.1
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In Flutter Why this keep prompting to me
"'package:flutter/src/widgets/text.dart':
Failed assertion: line 378 pos 10: 'data != null'"
I tested it the value is not Null and i tried flutter clean nothing change
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