World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases

THIS WEEK ON "WORLD'S MOST AGGRAVATING EDGE CASES"
by @qntm

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YOU PAID FOR ALL THE TEST CASES BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE

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Discontinuities in civil time

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Hmmm https://t.co/14IuXFaCAu

[Putnam @Putnam3145]

@badedgecases update: https://t.co/oZOJr6xc8I

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It's 2025 and you need a name for the sequel to Madden NFL 24

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Everything on Steam today is $2.99 https://t.co/e65RCmn9B5

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@TBestig In darts you are permitted lean over the oche provided your feet stay behind it. If you had extremely long arms you would not need to throw the dart at all, you could just put your dart in the board manually

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Darts player with 20ft arms

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Godot shows up

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Discontinuities in civil time

[Joost Maglev @joostmaglev]

. @badedgecases My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives.

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Significant trailing whitespace

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

What happens when your employee's surname is Null?

A complete lookup failure.

It's a bit of an older story, but for one company, their employee lookup interface was written in ActionScript3. XML encoding in ActionScript treats "null" as an empty element. The server interprets this as receiving no parameter at all, breaking the request.

The solution?

Test fields for "null" and escape them as CDATA values instead. CDATA is a way to store text in XML that would otherwise cause encoding/decoding issues.

[Joost Maglev @joostmaglev]

. @badedgecases There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this error they've found...

[Sam Winkler @ThatSamWinkler]

Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight

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@ldvsoft @grishka11 @YouichiHophop No, storing 0 - or any other timestamp - for a birth date is not alright

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@ldvsoft @grishka11 @YouichiHophop Which is bad. They should not do that. We are on the same page here

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@grishka11 @YouichiHophop What do you mean by "timestamp"

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A guided tour of every conceivable edge case you might encounter while attempting to define the term "mainline Super Mario Game" https://t.co/ttWX9ta0aK

[Chester Cheetah Fan Account @AkmaiaSkia]

Odio esta app.

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"Biannual" event which occurs twice in every second year

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@MrDanack I imagine someone on the hospital staff does? Dr Rebecca Maxwell is named in the article you linked

Not seeing where any particular election comes into this