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Read how a person named Jennifer Null can break the computers
Names like I.P.
Thanks to the life we live on the internet, all that has changed in the recent years.
The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to retry.
For any programmer, its painfully easy to see why Null could cause problems for a database.
By definition, null means nothing, or zero and this carries over to the language of computer programming.
To make things worse, this is not even her maiden name.
Null willingly put herself into this situation when she decided to take her husbands last name after marriage.
Null was working as an on-call substitute teacher before the birth of her child.
In that role, she could be notified of work via phone or through an online service.
However, the website would never work for Null and she always had to arrange a shift by phone.
I feel like I still have to do things the old-fashioned way, she says.
We joke about it a lot.
Its good for stories.
Now, the Nulls have a child, who too would have to live with the last name forever.
Source:BBC
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