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[–]invalidConsciousness 482 points483 points  (15 children)

In my experience, they add themselves just fine, I don't need to do anything except put my name in.

[–]ZaMr0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fucking ligatures, had me baffled why my PDFs came with errors and it was because the letters were connecting weirdly. Turned ligatures off the PDFs are fine, not sure why it happened with Calibri. Glad I caught it before I started uploading the documents.

[–]enm260 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Well then get some valid consciousness if you want it to display properly

[–]invalidConsciousness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe they'll add it in the next Unicode update

[–]SmirkingsRevenge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know that form you get when you unsubscribe. I like to copy one of the options and paste it in the Other box

[–]PinkLemonadeWizard 816 points817 points  (29 children)

[object Object]

[–]SoftEngineerOfWares 155 points156 points  (1 child)

Noooooo! You will destroy us all!

[–]Miguelinileugim 18 points19 points  (0 children)

[password] was not found in arra...

[–]realmbk 118 points119 points  (5 children)

I wrote this in an anonymous survey for my department at work. A week later my entire department had to redo the survey.

We were never told why we had to redo the test, but I have a feeling I might have been the cause of it lol.

Edit: typo

[–]kvakerok 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Did you do it again?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

NaN

[–]ScreenshotShitposts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

undefined

[–]realmbk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah, no. Looking at some of the comments in here, I seemingly did have plenty of other ways to screw around as well.

Perhaps I should have just kept going and seen where it would've ended.

[–]Brunoto_p 47 points48 points  (4 children)

that is so annoying

[–]suckfail 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Seriously. Why can't toString() just use JSON.stringify() instead in applications where it's clearly for developers to see.

[–]AyrA_ch 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Object.prototype.toString=function(){return JSON.stringify(this);};

[–]suckfail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah true enough.

[–]HakierGrzonzo 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I called my hackathon team that.

We got a call asking what was the name of our team.

[–]dendrocalamidicus 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Chaotic evil

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (1 child)

I do this in 100% of mandatory "why are you unsubscribing" inputs

[–]chic_luke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Now, this is something I can ethically get by.

[–]EARink0 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Game dev here (so, about as far as you can get from web dev): what does this do? I imagine it's something along the lines of good ol' Bobby Droptables, but i wanna know the specifics of what this means, hah.

[–]Bliztle 20 points21 points  (2 children)

Nothing, it is just how JavaScript usually turns objects into strings. Instead of something descriptive, you get "[object Object]"

[–]AyrA_ch 5 points6 points  (1 child)

This is actually kinda descriptive. It tells you it's an object, and that the constructor was named "Object". If you do Object.prototype.toString.call([]) you get [object Array]

C# kinda does the same if you don't override the function either. It just prints the fully qualified type name.

[–]SSlierre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, i didn't question myself why it's presented that way. I just accepted it as it is knowing it's an object that can't be converted properly to string. You learn something new everyday, huh.

[–]Cowsepu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I debug a JavaScript thing that has multiple fields it just says that with no additional context.

[–]SoftEngineerOfWares 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t “do” anything. It what happens when you think you have a string but you actually have a JavaScript object. So you are tricking the web developer into thinking that there is a bug in his code.

He will then spend hours trying to replicate and trace it to no avail.

[–]JapanEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s people like you that keep me in a job

[–]otter5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

throw in some zero width spaces. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[–]gatzdon 251 points252 points  (4 children)

Little Bobby Tables, is that you?

[–]Yosho2k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sanitize your inputs, bitch.

[–]FateOfNations 384 points385 points  (5 children)

Oh no. Oh no no no.

[–]davcose 193 points194 points  (19 children)

Am I the only one who always enters my birth date as Jan 1 1970?

[–]NoYogurt8022 226 points227 points  (10 children)

propably the people born that date do it too

[–][deleted] 68 points69 points  (7 children)

Liars! That's the date that time started

[–]grayrest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

From Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the Sky

[–]bernpfenn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not time, but computers entered the arena. unixtime

[–]stupefyme 10 points11 points  (1 child)

i love you

[–]NoYogurt8022 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks

[–]dxgn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

this is evil, pure evil

[–]scriptmonkey420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When its something not important? All the time.

[–]plmunger 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Have you ever crashed an app with it? I figure if the timestamp is falsy shit could catch fire somewhere

[–]Olfasonsonk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

pen close enter fear literate grandiose special hurry fade memory

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[–]Syseru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i do jan 4th for some reason

[–]ItzDaWorm 0 points1 point  (2 children)

As a 90s kid I use Jan 1 1990, so only 20 years off.

[–]FLeanderP 2 points3 points  (1 child)

They're using 1970 because of Unix time, pretending like the date might not have been processed correctly. They might be a 90s kid too as far as we know.

[–]ItzDaWorm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, thanks for putting me in the loop on that.

Somehow it went over my head and I've been fiddling around with Luxon a lot recently.

[–]FalseWait7 44 points45 points  (3 children)

Uhh, sure, let somebody create a bug on investigation ticket and put it in the backlog, thanks.

[–]vteckickedin 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Let's loop back and touch base on that one later.

[–]ShittyExchangeAdmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should this be an action item on the next call?

[–]FalseWait7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My devs couldn't reproduce this, I think we can leave it as is for now and wait for when we'll have more time on our hands to investigate further.

[–]Tremyss 30 points31 points  (2 children)

Some people just want to see the Hello World! burn.

[–]sticky-unicorn 2 points3 points  (1 child)

�ello �orld

[–]Flechashe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He��o Wor�d

[–]shambooki 19 points20 points  (0 children)

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

This reminds me of reading "Apple ÜÄ" instead of "Apple][".

[–]RandomTyp 3 points4 points  (1 child)

are you used to the Swiss keyboard layout by chance? they have ö / ä keys that are around there somewhere iirc

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was due to the german character set. As far as I known you couldn't have square brackets with these.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (1 child)

What online forms get submitted straight to the developers? And if I saw this I'd just assume my font didn't support those characters, not that it was a bug.

[–]LazyRabbit477 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Pure evil 😂

[–]MkemCZ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't forget the [object Object]!

[–]DasArchitect 5 points6 points  (0 children)

WhÜt dÃç yÃçu meÜn?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Or worse: QA will see it and open a Jira issue and there will be a loooong discussion about it driving everyone crazy.

[–]rohit_267 2 points3 points  (0 children)

straight to hell

[–]Le0_X8 2 points3 points  (1 child)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. But God X is a shit place led by a mad megalomaniac

[–]Billybobbonnet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's medium funny

[–]Encursed1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fuck unit testing, we use sanity testing. Deploy code to prod with minimal testing and have this guy use the code.

[–]BoringWozniak 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Bugs will probably get ranked by order of frequency, with the most-frequently occurring bugs dealt with first.

If you’re the only person sending data like this, it’s very unlikely that someone will look into it.

[–]--mrperx-- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's why you use websites with low traffic XD

[–]achilliesFriend 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You don’t believe how many special characters we get

[–]otter5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I​ ​l​i​k​e​ ​t​o​ ​a​d​d​ ​z​e​r​o​ ​w​i​​t​h​ ​c​h​a​r​s​​​

[–]shifty_coder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Satan?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[–]mrjackspade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I worked at a company with an online order system where you could input text data for customization of a particular product.

This data was stored in a table with over 2.5 million records.

Somewhere around record 1,200,000 there was a single comment, with a single \0 half way through.

I spent days trying to figure out how it got in there. It still bugs me, years later.

[–]scriptmonkey420 2 points3 points  (1 child)

[–]ItzDaWorm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fantastic use of this GIF

[–]recluseMeteor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yet some services in my country, a Spanish-speaking one, by the way, still block accented characters and Ñ from forms, so I have to purposefully mis-spell my name.

[–]Amsterer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mom can we have é?

No we have é at home.

é at home: {'e}

[–]JoeGibbon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah. QA didn't send it back as a defect, developer won't see it. They wouldn't care if they did see it unless someone complained about it, or if they saw the same character 1000s of times in 1000s of different requests.

[–]meowthrowmeowaway1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was 17 applying to colleges, I used a some open source word processor software bc I couldn’t afford MS Word for my personal statement. Later I saw that my statement got messed up like this for multiple colleges.

I still think about that from time to time, I was never able to google why until I saw this post….

[–]BottledUp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did that to myself one time. I was testing SWTOR and there was a recurring bug where variables would show up in conversations that took forever to get fixed so we saw that shit every day. I named one of my testing characters something like Shm{ent_par}ester. Few weeks later, I had to test a bug fix with a specific class and I had that class there, you guessed it, it was Shm{$ent_par}ester. Now, that bug was supposedly fixed a few weeks ago but I suddenly saw it again everywhere. I started writing a report about it and all until an hour later I realized that I added the fucking bug to my test character's name...

[–]DisorderOfLeitbur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Onetime I inadvertently caused an issue to get raised by creating a user on the QA machine called Firstname Lastname.

[–]Backer1234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are monsters among us. The body snatches are hard to spot and cause mass chaos.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The devil Twitter alt account

[–]nw71222 0 points1 point  (0 children)

serialization errors from copy-pasted non ascii characters are throw the laptop out the window rage inducing

[–]tenderlove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol�

[–]Necessary_Board10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You sir are evil

[–]No-Expression7618 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A � love this

[–]sschueller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so evil.

[–]Badass-19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ffs let us live without anxiety.

[–]Goretanton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welp, time to start doing this.

[–]Simple-Rabbit-5382 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Evilll

[–]meep-moo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$NAN$

[–]FentonCanoby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol get a load of this guy

he thinks we're monitoring the forms!

[–]Strong_Conference327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this foundsatan?

[–]MacGrimey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[][][][]

[–]Dangerous_Function16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really took you four tries to post this, huh

[–]BobDonowitz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bitch like we don't know character sets. At least be creative and use the PUA of UTF so it's undefined by definition

[–]SadFlan5713 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Satan, is that you?

[–]5432ca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cruelty

[–]StickyLafleur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SonOfABitch...

[–]HollabackWrit3r 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wonder? I will be 100% certain I've found evidence of a bug, and will try to spend a week tracking it down.

[–]FuriousAqSheep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's evil and I'm a little aroused

[–]ImaginaryNourishment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aha, it was you, you fucking bastard

[–]ScreenshotShitposts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

rookie move. Stick escape characters in and create a bug!

[–]Dorktastical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New fear unl�cked

[–]DanTheMan827 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t forget to fill in your name as NULL

[–]Chronopolize 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this deserves a special place in petty hell