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World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases

@badedgecases

6 years

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

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2 years

A day and a half of debugging later, you figure out that "[object Object]" is the actual, original, correct text which someone entered

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Programming language where <<<<<<< HEAD ======= >>>>>>> ab890fb is valid syntax

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Self-driving car AI when the vehicle in front is a truck carrying a load of traffic lights

FSD in 6 months

@FSD_in_6m

3 years

@flames_of_chaos @sascha_p The author posted this video in the comments. It's a truck full of traffic lights.

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Aggravating edge case: the idiot programmer who thought this was a thing they should check for

Wilson Wilson

@euboid

2 years

Can devs please chill 😐

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An immensely popular new programming language called "Star", which uses the file extension ".*" for its source files

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3 years

STRAP IN, IT'S THE SELF-DRIVING CAR A.I. EDGE CASE SPECIAL 1. Tractors

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9 years

You were genuinely born on 1 January 1970, but the system interprets a Unix time of 0 as a missing value or error condition

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8 years

Inexplicably popular new song with the refrain "Alexa, buy this song" (h/t @gothick )

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6 years

It's 2098 and you need a name for your new C++ standard

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6 years

Unicode 12.0 adds a new emoji, U+1FAB0 GLYPH KNOWN ONLY TO YOU INDICATING THAT THIS IS NOT REALITY

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6 years

A glyph whose presence alerts you to unreality, once only found in letters from your imaginary friend, begins appearing in newspapers, texts, advertisements

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9 years

World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases is hosted by a man whose legal name is the empty string

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9 years

The Vice President of the United States assassinates the President, becomes President, then pardons himself

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Car manufacturer Fiat wants to issue a cryptocurrency

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2 years

I'd be mad too if it took me a day and a half to debug something that simple

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6 years

You thought this was a joke account

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8 years

The President pardons himself

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5 years

The "nobody knows Tony Hawk" meme becomes so well-known that it stops happening to him

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3 years

Stock price can no longer be expressed as a 32-bit number of ten-thousandths of a US dollar

Steve Weis

@sweis

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Berkshire Hathaway just hit $429,496.7295 and now Warren Buffet is broke.

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6 years

Between the birth of one twin and the next, the clocks go back

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1 year

Your morning alarm song starts with lyrics which your device interprets as a voice instruction to turn the alarm off

A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms

The company's Pixel phone responds to voice commands, and sometimes that can have inadvertent effects.

fortune.com

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3 years

A critically important liquid called "gas"

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2 years

WORLD'S MOST AGGRAVATING EDGE CASES is not a parody account.

Jakub Kozłowski

@kubukoz

2 years

I'm pleased to announce that git conflict markers are parsed as valid Scala.

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9 years

Just minutes after the Unicode project is declared complete, you make FTL radio contact with 1,000,000 alien civilisations

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3 years

Alright alright everybody be quiet already

Randall Munroe

@xkcd

3 years

Edge Cake

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9 years

Being named "Jennifer Null", in a universe generally unable to distinguish the string "Null" from actual nulls

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8 years

An officially registered, real UK company named '; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD'

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8 years

Unicode adds U+16D03 VERIFIED TWITTER ACCOUNT ICON, and you can use it in your username

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6 years

Setting a clock whose face is so large that it spans multiple time zones

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HTTP/1.1 599.9999999999999 Status Code Rounding Error

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6 years

A man whose real name is "Harry Potter" becomes exasperated and writes a book entitled "J. K. Rowling"

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4 years

If your birth name is "X Æ A-12" then the most aggravating edge case in your scenario is your parents

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6 years

A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite

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3 years

Chroma keying a tropical bird whose feathers display every colour in existence

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9 years

A band named "The Beatles (disambiguation)" and their self-titled debut album

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4 years

THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD

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3 years

This philosophical question is one I think about a lot. Is a person with an apostrophe in their surname an edge case? Only if you're a terrible programmer

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6 years

Due to a typo in your employment contract you are paid not in US dollars but "Us dollars", a volatile and highly insecure cryptocurrency issued to the readers of Us Weekly (h/t @fakalin )

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4 years

Your astonishing, perspective-altering, society-upheaving science fiction or fantasy story of precisely 17,500 words is ineligible for any category of Hugo

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5 months

"Biannual" event which occurs twice in every second year

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5 years

By popular demand: having the license plate "NULL" in a universe unable to distinguish the string "NULL" from actual null values

Feross

@feross

5 years

Choosing NULL as your license plate might seem like a funny idea. Except this one DMV vendor thought it was a good idea to use NULL as the license plate value anytime it's unknown. So this clever person's just getting $10,000s of tickets directed to him

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8 years

Your source control system uses cryptographic hashes to identify objects objects such as hash collision test files

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6 years

Due to a missing null terminator, the official subtitle of Star Wars Episode IX includes the film's entire title crawl, shooting script and closing credits

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3 years

The delta variant, when you are Delta Air Lines

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9 years

There is no procedure for turning the mainframe off. It has never been turned off, or had power failure. Halfway to Jupiter, it kills Frank

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6 years

A hugely popular new computer system uses base 6 (heximal) internally, catastrophically and permanently ambiguating the meanings of "hex editor", "hex address", etc. across all of computer science

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6 years

Trying to find online help with programming questions about stack overflows

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2 years

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music

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3 years

FSD in 6 months

@FSD_in_6m

3 years

@flames_of_chaos @sascha_p The author posted this video in the comments. It's a truck full of traffic lights.

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4 years

The extinction-level asteroid's name is "Updog" and absolutely nobody is making any progress towards stopping it

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1 year

Your package will be delivered between 12:30pm and 2:00pm today but you have no clue when that will be because the package contains... your first clock (you don't have any clocks)

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3 years

Ah yes, from the same file as "Why does California have its own country code top-level domain?"

John Reese

@jjjtttrrr

3 years

I am not impressed that both Ontario, CA, and Ontario, CA, US exist.

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6 years

Trying to find an illegal download of a season of a television show where one of the episodes in the season was called "Torrent"

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4 years

The GET request deletes something

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8 years

Racehorses named "It Fell", "The Race Has Been Cancelled", "Horses Have Ceased To Exist", "These Are Greyhounds" etc.

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5 years

The universe where, by pure chance, every coin ever tossed from the beginning of history to the present day has come up heads

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4 years

1GB password

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3 years

Well done to Google News, by the way, for using circles whose RADIUS increases linearly with the number of cases Twice as many cases -> four times the size of circle That isn't an edge case, it's just bad data visualisation

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5 years

Pleased to announce the official World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases videogame, "" To be clear, the game's name is two-character string. Double-quote, double-quote

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7 years

A bug in the bug tracker you use makes it impossible to raise a bug about the bug tracker not being able to handle certain kinds of bugs

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4 years

I mean, as aggravating as this edge case is, you could also, I don't know, enter the wrong blood type by accident the first time

Dima Pachynin

@DimaPachynin

4 years

@tef_ebooks My favorite story: our client was a medical company. There was an unchangeable field "blood type" in software. Everybody knows it is unchangeable, right? No! It could change during cancer treatment in rare cases. Never say never.

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7 years

Oh no!

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4 years

"Ben M. Hanson is a democratic candidate running to become a North Dakota state representative in District 46. He isn't to be confused with Ben W. Hanson, a democratic candidate running to become a North Dakota state representative in District 46"

Candidates with same name running for the same political position

FARGO — Voters may think they are seeing double on the ballot if voting in Fargo District 46 this year. Two people with the same first and last name are running for the same position.

www.inforum.com

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8 years

Your real/legal first name, "Fnu", is the system code in some US immigration software for "First Name Unknown"

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3 years

By popular demand

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4 years

Massive new tech company named "FAANG"

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I dislike declaring a real human being to be a "bad edge case" but this is a great story And a cautionary tale to everybody who creates user interfaces where people have to enter an age or date of birth

Joe Tidy

@joetidy

5 months

I’m on a flight in US and an old lady has caused confusion, hilarity and then amazement as the crew expected her to be an infant. She is actually 101 and the computer can’t handle an age that high so just put her down as a 1 year old on the manifest. She laughed it off. Legend.

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6 years

It turns out GNU is actually just Unix

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Sam

@smithsam

2 years

Poor Bobby Tables…

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During a soccer match, the referee, who has sole authority to cause the match to be stopped, suspended or abandoned, dies

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Universal application of the "It's in the past, we need to move forward" defense results in a world where nobody is ever punished for any crime

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Two UUIDs collide

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A country's official flag is animated

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All of these totally routine occurrences in driving, which any human driver can handle trivially. There's nothing "edgy" about them at all

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6 years

Being named "Alexa"

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No one will invest in your "pyramid scheme" (project to build an actual stone pyramid)

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3 years

Jordan

@JordanTeslaTech

3 years

Hey @elonmusk you might want to have your team look into the moon tricking the autopilot system. The car thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light and wanted to keep slowing down. 🤦🏼 @Teslarati @teslaownersSV @TeslaJoy

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4 years

The price of a negative-valued commodity increases by 20%, from -$10 to -$12

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Universal application of the "Those people were going to die sooner or later anyway" argument results in a world where everybody dies, sooner

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2. Horses 3. Telling the difference between a shallow puddle and an impassable flood

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Here's a big, fun, important one: * Recognising when it has, for any reason, become unsafe to continue driving, and safely pulling over or turning around

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8 years

The President pardons himself

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3 years

TELL ME MORE?

Terence Eden is on Mastodon

@edent

3 years

This is interesting. A bank claimed it couldn't use diacritics in a customer's name due to technical limitations. Customer sued… and won! Your name is personal data, and GDPR says it should be recorded accurately.

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Wake me when it reaches the antipode and starts wrapping around again

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After three failed attempts to give the correct authentication code, you are locked out from requesting nuclear strikes for thirty minutes

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4 years

There's literally someone named "Hu" on first base and nobody, not a single person, will do the bit with you

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5 years

Searching for literal asterisks

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6 years

Did you know there's a Twitter user whose username is the empty string

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2 years

Attempting to find actual data about what percentage of statistics is, in fact, made up

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I sometimes wonder what really constitutes an edge case for a self-driving car AI. They have just as much trouble with e.g. overtaking a tractor, obeying hand signals from a someone directing traffic, distinguishing a cat in the middle of the road from a plastic bag...

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Monty Hall: [opens the door with the car behind it] "Do you want to switch?" Contestant: "Of course I do, everybody knows the math"

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3 years

Almost all of this is happening at night, obviously

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Wikipedia articles about colours not representable on a computer monitor

Rec. 2020 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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5 years

Lyric sheet for a song in which only one word is sung: "Instrumental"

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5 years

The IANA sells

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It turns out they've actually just set their status to "Typing..." and walked away

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7 years

ZIP file containing itself

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5. Single-track roads with passing places 6. Figuring out what another driver means when they flash their headlights at you 7. Correct use of the horn

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4. Obeying signage written in human language for an intelligent human being to understand

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The driverless car swerves towards a single pedestrian to avoid a crowd of ten, except it's the car's manufacturer's CEO

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