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Re:An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee ... by btown on Friday April 27, 2012 @02:19PM (#3900371)
Nan is actually a legitimate name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan) so if you're putting everything into upper case and not sanitizing, you're gonna have a bad time.
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Re:An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee ... by srean on Friday April 27, 2012 @02:54PM (#3900569)
And dev is a common first name in India. Its a valid surname too, but that spoils the pun.
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Re:An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee ... by Splines on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:32PM (#3901108)
Somewhere in the world exists a poor soul named Dev Null.
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Re:An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee ... by qq66 on Friday April 27, 2012 @02:33PM (#3900467)
Null is also a legitimate name. When names are Anglicized from foreign languages there are often dozens of alternate spellings.
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Re:An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee ... by mthreat on Friday April 27, 2012 @03:08PM (#3900611)
Patio11's article "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

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Re:An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee ... by famousactress on Friday April 27, 2012 @03:49PM (#3900755)
This post reminded me of that also. I find myself sending someone that post every quarter or so :)
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Re:An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee ... by Roboprog on Saturday April 28, 2012 @02:02AM (#3902166)
That's a good list. I felt a bit less smug when I got to number 40.
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