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I try to register @null wherever I go. Most places don't allow it, and the one place that did force changed the name at one point.

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There was the guy with license plate “null” who received a citation every time an officer forgot to enter a value in that field

https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...

My coworker was naturalized and changed their middle name to null as part of that. To see what would happen

Remind me of this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....

Sounds like we need to use the Big List Of Naughty Strings to weed out troublesome usernames...

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

Reminds me of the guy that had the witter account with the handle '@'.

What did they change it to?

Hopefully "nullptr".

The empty string, right? That'd only be appropriate.

Spoken like an Oracle developer (Oracle considers NULL and empty string to be equivalent).

The First Name I registered on that account

To lol code?

llOlllO_lllOlOl_llOllOOl_llOllOO

Optional?

James Undefined.

DROP TABLE

Little Nully we call him

https://xkcd.com/327/

relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1963/

Other relevant XKCD

Why does that not list 'null' under "causing trouble"?

عينول is a valid name, which can be poorly transliterated to Ai'null

Explaining the joke: The first letter is ain, written as a3 or 'a in some places. Pronounce a' with a soft stop. Because of this, legal names here sometimes include an apostrophe. Normally it's spelled 'Ainul, but one can misspell it.

Nully Potter?

As in, pointer...

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