A man got a vanity license plate "null", which caused a meltdown in the California ticketing software system

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[–]Spud 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

This one is hilarious! Little Bobby Tables! Brilliant.

Always fun when smart people do not think it all through... oops!

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree, but it's also interesting that doing things is becoming more and more complicated to do correctly...

[–]Spud 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So true. Tech has exploded! And there is a ton of churn. Pretty much impossible for one person to do it all, unless they are in some limited domain or other.

I like embedded systems, do lots with close to the metal code, or some higher level thing.

When I look at web facing development? It is just big now. Bigger than when I left systems engineering in the late 00's.

Security is, always has been risk / reward management at best.

But damn, "good as it gets" is damn tough to understand and actualize.

Thanks for the work you and others (I don't know) have done here. It's a non trivial thing.