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One example among many: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programme
by itamarst 10y ago
One example among many: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
It's not even a complete list! E.g. airline reservation systems break for people with single character last name. Which happens.
And I swear the hyphen in my last name is the reason I get selected for extra scrutiny every time I go through US passport control. Airline systems don't do hyphens, so there's a mismatch with passport...
- discombobulate 10y agoIt's a useful list. You wouldn't need to hire for each of those cases, though. Just be aware of them. > And I swear the hyphen in my last name is the reason I get selected for extra scrutiny every time I go through US passport control. It not unheard of for last names to be hyphenated in the UK. It's most common among the 'upper class'.
- itamarst 10y agoWell, your options are: 1) Hire lots of people with same experience, but each of which spends lots of time trying to learn everything about everything. 2) Hire a bunch of people with different experiences and knowledge and pool their learning. They can and should also try to learn lots of stuff. You can eventually reproduce the necessary knowledge and skills with path #1... but it's not like you have that much time available to learn. Path #2 is much more efficient.