[RndTbl] An amusing stories about the use of Null

Bill Reid billreid at shaw.ca
Fri Apr 15 12:45:29 CDT 2022


For those who have dealt with Null values in programming and databasesyou will 
find this quite amusing.

This week on Radiolab...

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*New episode on the podcast feed: NULL 
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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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