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My partner has a hyphenated first and last name. So many systems refuse to accept that, and even regular humans struggle with understanding it!
by girvo 10y ago
My partner has a hyphenated first and last name. So many systems refuse to accept that, and even regular humans struggle with understanding it!
- moosterv 10y agoMy last name starts with oo, which many humans struggle to understand. It almost always becomes do, or co.
- kasparsklavins 10y agoHad this bug in a system I was working on. Pushed a patch in april.. and there still is an ongoing discussion whether it should be merged or not.
- int_19h 10y agoWhy is there a discussion? What do the people who don't want to take the patch say? "We don't care if we lose customers with unusual names"?
- kasparsklavins 10y agoBecause of code style (I do not mean spaces or tabs, it is beyond that). Different developers have different ideas of how a function should behave, where it literally has no effect on how the rest of the system works.