bookwormstory.social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
ElCanut@jlai.lu to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 6 months ago

Asking the real questions

jlai.lu

message-square
219
link
fedilink
1.15K

Asking the real questions

jlai.lu

ElCanut@jlai.lu to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 6 months ago
message-square
219
link
fedilink
  • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    113
    ·
    6 months ago

    That’s easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

    • riodoro1@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      78
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      John\0Doe will fuck with all C (and C based derivatives) software that touches it.

      • pelya@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        72
        ·
        6 months ago

        Nah, it will end up simply as “John” in the database. You need “John%sDoe” to crash C software with unsafe printf() calls, and even then it’s better to use several “%s”

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        21
        ·
        6 months ago

        C and C derivatives will be fine unless they’re fucking up encoding.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          18
          ·
          6 months ago

          Which rarely, if ever, happens. Especially with US software.

      • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        6 months ago

        With an address in 's-Hertogenbosch to help people who are lazy about escaping.

Programmer Humor@programming.dev

programmer_humor@programming.dev

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !programmer_humor@programming.dev

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

  • Keep content in english
  • No advertisements
  • Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 710 users / day
  • 4.61K users / week
  • 9.11K users / month
  • 17.7K users / 6 months
  • 3 local subscribers
  • 23.1K subscribers
  • 1.33K Posts
  • 43.9K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Feyter@programming.dev
  • adr1an@programming.dev
  • BurningTurtle@programming.dev
  • Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org