roon@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoWhen a real user uses the applemmy.mlimagemessage-square203fedilinkarrow-up11.64Karrow-down118cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
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minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up51·7 months agoI was a QA engineer. I think one of the guys on the team I was on developed a stress response from hearing me walk over to his desk. Lots of “page crashes if the user doesn’t have a last name” “Why wouldn’t they have a last name??” “No idea, but 372 users in the DB don’t, and 20 of them were created this month so it’s not an old problem” “incoherent muttering and cursing”
minus-squarevoid *lizzy; :v_trans: :v_bi:@social.lizzy.rslinkfedilinkarrow-up35·7 months ago@jjjalljs @DharkStare https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI love that article. There are also ones about dates and times. The more you deal with dates and times, the more you realize how messed up they are.
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·7 months agoSome cultures don’t use last names.
minus-squaref2sfljLhdtTZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoIt’s pretty common https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononym
minus-squareAgility0971@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agomy users are not allowed to be mononym
minus-squareBallsandBayonets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoUPDATE User SET Last name=‘Solo’ WHERE LastName=‘’; You can thank Disney for that one.
I was a QA engineer. I think one of the guys on the team I was on developed a stress response from hearing me walk over to his desk.
Lots of “page crashes if the user doesn’t have a last name”
“Why wouldn’t they have a last name??”
“No idea, but 372 users in the DB don’t, and 20 of them were created this month so it’s not an old problem”
“incoherent muttering and cursing”
@jjjalljs @DharkStare https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
I love that article. There are also ones about dates and times. The more you deal with dates and times, the more you realize how messed up they are.
Some cultures don’t use last names.
It’s pretty common https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononym
my users are not allowed to be mononym
UPDATE User SET Last name=‘Solo’ WHERE LastName=‘’;
You can thank Disney for that one.