Bret Hart - You're dereferencing a null pointer!

Bret Hart doing some code review. He finds the source of the bug and calls them out on it. They are dereferencing a null pointer!

[prodEdward]

I cannot believe they are dereferencing a null pointer

[NesDogg]

I remember this. Brett was telling the guys at Midway how to code the wrestlemania arcade game.

[cantbecool]

I like how he's pointing at a 13inch CRT for the code review.

[Jomester]

This is definitely me when I dereference a null pointer.

[martin]

Bret "The Hitman" Hart
The Excellence in Engineering
-Brian Zane

[afarber]

Those are actual programmers for the company. They gave Bret Hart that line.

[JeremiahFernandez]

jeez it's right in front of them the whole time

[okashkhawaja]

The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be. Bret the Hitman Hart

[professorrubickmagusgrandi]

In case anyone's wondering what the error is:
A pointer is a piece of data that that tells you where another piece of data is.
You can have pointers to numbers, letter, words, or whatever data you want.
When you "dereference" a pointer, you're using that pointer to get whatever data it's pointing to.
A null pointer is a pointer that doesn't point to anything.
You can't dereference a null pointer, because there's no data to get, so you just get an error.

[craigdaurizio]

Okay my life is complete now. This is amazing.

[mohamedalismacktalk]

Fireship brought me here after the mess crowdstrike did

[k-c]

How about checking if the pointer is null before accessing its data?

[thehungriergrue]

If only wrestlers were coding, we'd never be in the mess we are today.

[Xaito]

one does not simply de-reference a null pointer.

[Agreedtodisagree]

I am surprised this video doesn't have a lot of views.

[DagothDaddy]

Coding interviews should just play this clip and ask you to explain why derefrencing null pointers causes and error.

[nick_QA]

what? no one's said "The excellence of .EXE-cution"?