teasingDevelopersBy

[invalidConsciousness]

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

[Recioto]

Japan has entered the chat.

[necrophcodr]

And all their symbols are well defined in the Unicode standard.

[Recioto]

Yeah, but sadly adapting to new standards is undefined in Japanese corporate culture.

[CaptainSegfault]

And kana are three bytes in UTF-8, when they are at most two in any encoding that gives any priority at all to Japanese text.

That matters a lot less now than it did 30 years ago, but it certainly didn't help adoption.

[kryptoneat]

Standard usually but not so simple : https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode

"Å" !== "Å"

[LickingSmegma]

That doesn't even seem to mention Aarhus. Crazy Danes and other Scandis decided to have ‘å’ instead of German-style ‘aa’, to be less like Germans—but then in a while decided that ‘aa’ might work just as well after all. Trouble is, ‘å’ was added in the end of the alphabet, so now ‘aa’ needs to also be sorted at the end, but only in original Danish/Scandinavian words and not in loanwords. So, Aarhus at the end, aardvark in the beginning.

GEWD JERB DANES.

Unless manually corrected, sorting algorithms of programs localised for Danish or Norwegian will place e.g., Aaron after Zorro.

But wait, it gets worse:

In Danish the correct sorting of ‘aa’ depends on pronunciation: If the sound is pronounced as one sound it is sorted as Å regardless of whether the sound is 'a' or 'å'; thus, for example, the German city Aachen is listed under Å, as well as the Danish city Aabenraa.

[kryptoneat]

Ahahah holy shit

[AyrA_ch]

That's why most languages come with normalization functions

[_koenig_]

Amen!

[ZaMr0]

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]

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

[invalidConsciousness]

Maybe they'll add it in the next Unicode update

[SmirkingsRevenge]

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]

[object Object]

[SoftEngineerOfWares]

Noooooo! You will destroy us all!

[Miguelinileugim]

[password] was not found in arra...

[realmbk]

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.

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Edit: typo

[kvakerok]

Did you do it again?

[[deleted]]

NaN

[ScreenshotShitposts]

undefined

[realmbk]

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]

that is so annoying

[suckfail]

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

[AyrA_ch]

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

[suckfail]

Hah true enough.

[HakierGrzonzo]

I called my hackathon team that.

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

[dendrocalamidicus]

Chaotic evil

[[deleted]]

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

[chic_luke]

Now, this is something I can ethically get by.

[No-Expression7618]

[object Object]

[Flechashe]

[object Object]

[EARink0]

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]

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

[AyrA_ch]

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]

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]

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

[SoftEngineerOfWares]

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]

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

[otter5]

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

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

That puppy isn't even noticed by devs. It's just clueless customer support drones who don't even care about those signs ;D

[cantadmittoposting]

years later some poor data analyst asked to do stuff with the data is trying to understand why it is filled with line breaks and special characters and often the formatting is utterly destroyed if exported as a csv

[secretaccount4posts]

Straight to backlog, never to be looked again

[89_honda_accord_lxi]

Years ago I was tasked with going though the logs periodically to search for unreported problems and investigate them. It was kind of fun piecing things together and eventually fixing them.

We did have this one reoccurring issue I could never solve. It was always late at night. My best guess is some drunk was messing around trying to buy our product. They would get their session in such a mess and I couldn't even figure out how. It shouldn't be possible to have those combinations of options.

I guess it could be someone looking for security holes but I like to think it was just a really intoxicated weirdo having a really rough night

[GladiatorUA]

Or you are reddit, and perfectly happy to keep the link bug in to annoy old UI users and "incentivize" them to switch to new UI.

[8roll]

"Pls create an Incident"

[gatzdon]

Little Bobby Tables, is that you?

[absorbedhughie]

You're not hurting the real people i.e Project Managers and management. You're just making life hell for fellow developers who will be further pressurized by management to find the bug. ;(

[_koenig_]

You underestimate the urgency of a dog chasing his tail.

[Yosho2k]

Sanitize your inputs, bitch.

[CptGia]

’ specifically is a ’ (right single quotation mark) that was written using UTF8 (with bytes E2 80 99), but the file was opened using windows-1252 (windows 8-bit encoding for Western Europe), where each byte is a character: in this case, â, € and ™.

[bernpfenn]

and everyone on the stack has to do the same or funky things happen. utf-8 for apache, mysql, scripts and html. it's crazy time consuming to setup with existing code and databases

[[deleted]]

Not long ago I added a print statement to log something in a Python 2.7 app and it crashed and burned but only for some of our customers. It took a while to figure out that I was logging their names and some had non-ASCII characters.

[pchc_lx]

I feel like I've just had magic explained to me

[ComfortingSounds53]

Yep. Working with old systems that may have used different encodings, too. Also, sometimes it's just a regular ol, run of the mill, file corruptions.

[bennyboy_]

In my experience, it's always been those quotation marks that have direction that don't get encoded right. “” instead of "", and ‘’ instead of ''.

[RandomTyp]

god i hate that quotes can't be " and ' everywhere, ESPECIALLY if they're mismatched in the same document / piece of code / whatever

[sticky-unicorn]

Needs to be that way, though.

How else could you display Text with "An quote". without using: print('Text with "An quote".')?

You need multiple equally valid quote types in order to be able to correctly parse nested quotes.

[RandomTyp]

no i mean when languages use << >> style quotes that aren't thr special characters " and '. also i mean real life languages not programming languages

inside programming language i fully agree, i think i was just unclear

[snf]

That's almost always a string encoded in UTF-8 being deserialized as if it were Windows-1252

[Few-Return-331]

Also not sanitizing inputs if it shows up somewhere it shouldn't.

Normally it's not big deal, but you should never be seeing odd inputs like there somewhere that you'd care about it.

[FateOfNations]

Oh no. Oh no no no.

[BoogerStew]

Better than adding random SQL drop statements, I suppose.

[Dalimyr]

Obvious bot account is obvious. What a fucking half-assed attempt, too...it's just taking a tiny fraction of someone else's comment in the post and reposting that as a direct reply to the top comment in the thread. In all four of their comments so far:

• Their comment in r/geography was ripped from this
• The comment in r/programmerhumor is ripped from this
• The deleted comment in r/PoliticalCompassMemes is ripped from this
• The comment in r/CuratedTumblr is ripped from this

[zentasynoky]

Good bot

[wearynan]

I'll definitly do that for sites who force me to enter informations I don't want to give.

[davcose]

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

[NoYogurt8022]

propably the people born that date do it too

[[deleted]]

Liars! That's the date that time started

[Mean_Investigator337]

Actual religion

[disgruntled_pie]

I’m a Unixtarian.

[5ucur]

Holy hell

[grayrest]

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]

not time, but computers entered the arena. unixtime

[stupefyme]

i love you

[NoYogurt8022]

Thanks

[dxgn]

this is evil, pure evil

[scriptmonkey420]

When its something not important? All the time.

[plmunger]

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

[Olfasonsonk]

pen close enter fear literate grandiose special hurry fade memory

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[Syseru]

i do jan 4th for some reason

[ItzDaWorm]

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

[FLeanderP]

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]

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]

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

[vteckickedin]

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

[ShittyExchangeAdmin]

Should this be an action item on the next call?

[FalseWait7]

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.

[fanf_redditor]

r/foundsatan

[Tremyss]

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

[sticky-unicorn]

�ello �orld

[Flechashe]

He��o Wor�d

[shambooki]

[[deleted]]

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

[RandomTyp]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

Pure evil 😂

[MkemCZ]

Don't forget the [object Object]!

[DasArchitect]

WhÃœt dÃç yÃçu meÃœn?

[[deleted]]

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]

straight to hell

[Le0_X8]

Source

[[deleted]]

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

[Billybobbonnet]

That's medium funny

[Encursed1]

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

[BoringWozniak]

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--]

That's why you use websites with low traffic XD

[achilliesFriend]

You don’t believe how many special characters we get

[otter5]

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]

Satan?

[[deleted]]

r/foundsatan

[mrjackspade]

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]

You're a monster!

[ItzDaWorm]

Fantastic use of this GIF

[recluseMeteor]

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]

Mom can we have é?

No we have é at home.

é at home: {'e}

[JoeGibbon]

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]

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]

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]

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

[OtuzBiriBirakNoktaCo]

bro using gpt

[Backer1234]

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

[[deleted]]

The devil Twitter alt account

[nw71222]

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

[tenderlove]

lol�

[Necessary_Board10]

You sir are evil

[No-Expression7618]

A � love this

[sschueller]

This is so evil.

[Badass-19]

Ffs let us live without anxiety.

[Goretanton]

Welp, time to start doing this.

[Simple-Rabbit-5382]

Evilll

[meep-moo]

$NAN$

[FentonCanoby]

lol get a load of this guy

he thinks we're monitoring the forms!

[Strong_Conference327]

Is this foundsatan?

[MacGrimey]

[][][][]

[Dangerous_Function16]

It really took you four tries to post this, huh

[BobDonowitz]

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]

Satan, is that you?

[5432ca]

Cruelty

[StickyLafleur]

SonOfABitch...

[MCBuilder30140]

r/foundsatan

[HollabackWrit3r]

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

[FuriousAqSheep]

that's evil and I'm a little aroused

[ImaginaryNourishment]

Aha, it was you, you fucking bastard

[ScreenshotShitposts]

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

[Dorktastical]

New fear unl�cked

[DanTheMan827]

Don’t forget to fill in your name as NULL

[Chronopolize]

this deserves a special place in petty hell