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and the steady stream of people getting kicked off because their (perfectly real) names look weird to anglophone americans.
by zem 11y ago
and the steady stream of people getting kicked off because their (perfectly real) names look weird to anglophone americans.
- johncolanduoni 11y agoToo right! My favorite crash-course in the realities of names is "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"[1]. I think any programmer whose work deals with any kind of personal information should google "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About" and read all of them (gender, addresses, etc.). [1]: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...