PHP and Node definitely do.

Node doesn’t.

> parseInt('077')
77

1. If the input string, with leading whitespace and possible +/- signs removed, begins with 0x or 0X (a zero, followed by lowercase or uppercase X), radix is assumed to be 16 and the rest of the string is parsed as a hexadecimal number.
2. If the input string begins with any other value, the radix is 10 (decimal).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/parseInt

I’ve also never seen any piece of software that would treat a single leading zero as octal

I thought JavaScript did that, but it turns out it doesn’t. I thought Java did that, but it turns out it doesn’t. Python did it until version 2.7: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/functions.html#int. C still does it: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strtol

I’m not sure if you’re getting it, so I’ll explain just in case.

In computer science a few conventions have emerged on how numbers should be interpreted, depending on how they start:

• decimal (the usual system with digits from 0 to 9): no prefix
• binary (digits 0 and 1): prefix 0b, so 0b1001110
• octal (digits 0 through 7): prefix 0, so 0116
• hexadecimal (digits 0 through 9 and then A through E): prefix 0x, so 0x8E

If your zip code starts with 9, it won’t be interpreted as octal. You’re fine.

they also pay 3000$/mo for a moldy apartment

the rule is flagging a false negative

false positive?

Yes, I know the field isn’t nullable in the database. I’m asking you what you are sending me, jack——

(Directed at a colleague)

Somehow I can tell that this story didn’t go down in the US.

I wouldn’t have thought that content suitable for talesfromtechsupport would be acceptable here. As the description says,

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

Customer support is not usually related to programming.

Hell, no. If I wanted to save bytes, I’d use a binary format, or just fucking zip the JSON. Looking at a request-response pair and quickly understanding the transferred data is invaluable.

I’m sad that there are people who call themselves developers who need to be told this.

I refuse to validate data that comes from the backend I specifically develop against.

Or even funnier: It gets parsed in octal, which does yield a valid zip code. Good luck finding that.

Da schaut man nicht auf den Tacho sondern wo man hin abbiegen muss.

Du hattest ohnehin vor, abzubiegen, und bist trotzdem nicht langsamer geworden? Wolltest du dann einfach irgendwann man 60km/h das Lenkrad rumreißen und das Beste hoffen?

For those who don’t know:

Speaking at a software conference in 2009, Tony Hoare hyperbolically apologized for “inventing” the null reference:[26] [27]

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn’t resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

Hey, IT, I imported this data set twice, and now there are a lot of duplicates. Is there something wrong with the tool?

– Yes, that happened.

Sure, Java can tell the difference. But that doesn’t mean that the guy writing the API cares whether or not he adds a key to the dictionary before yeeting it to the client.

In my experience it’s the other way around.

Speaking of rate limits: Github recently blocked me because I went over a ‘secondary rate limit’ by visiting the site for the first time in a month. Has anybody experienced this?

Thanks, that’s enough details.

Yay, a likeminded person!

For Microsoft I fully understand that they’d rather have a subscription model for Windows. After all you’re getting updates every fortnight and critical patches ASAP. I wonder they let you buy their shit for so long.

Just in case someone brings it up—and someone will bring it up regardless—: I’m not defending their recent enshittification and “always online” mindset.