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Immutability of names may be a perceived benefit and a feature, vs. simply poor UX. Regulatory, perhaps?
by Mtinie 10y ago
Immutability of names may be a perceived benefit and a feature, vs. simply poor UX.
Regulatory, perhaps?
- yeukhon 10y agoRegulatory is a process, so if there's a process... we can correct name on a typo on our passport, why not in this case? Either the regulatory is really really stupid (we never thought of it!), or the company bought a bad system.
- okket 10y agoAmazing that in the age of git and Merkle trees it is still hard to change something plus keeping an immutable history of the changes for documentation/accountability purposes. This should be a basic requirement for any sane system nowadays.
- sly010 10y agoIt is how most databases, filesystems and distributed systems work, so we know how to build those things, we don't even need merkle trees. And despite the fact that many real world problems can be better modeled with an append only log and a derived state, somehow 99% of software systems opt to store the derived state only.
- emodendroket 10y agoHard to imagine any situation whatever where someone's name would change so that definitely makes a lot of sense.
- okket 10y agoMarriage.
- emodendroket 10y agoYeah, that's what I was getting at.
- thomasfoster96 10y agoFriendly suggestion: The italics didn’t help the sarcasm come across any easier.
- emodendroket 10y agoSo what do you suggest?
- throwanem 10y agoA trailing /s is the convention. Failing that, perhaps less subtlety? Text is poor at conveying tone.
- emodendroket 10y agoWhy don't I put a flashing red sign that says I am joking while I'm at it?
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt's up to you; you're the one controlling the chances people will get the joke in your comment :P.
- emodendroket 10y agoAt this point I'm resigned to people taking even the most improbable interpretation of whatever I say if it gives them an opportunity to call me an idiot.
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- titanix2 10y agoThat may be right in your culture but it is not universally true. For example in Taiwan the law allow one to change name twice[1]. I met someone whose mother was actively searching for a more lucky name before graduation (thus reducing expected paperwork). In France too where there is some provisions to change its name. Someone in my town who was running a business did it. His family name was Hittler, which has you guess was quite heavy to handle, and change it for Hittier. [1] http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/05/30/2003474229 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/05/30/2...
- emodendroket 10y agoIt's actually not right in my culture at all; it's blindingly obviously wrong.
- Mtinie 10y agoOf course there are a huge number of reasons why you would want to have the ability. I don't agree with the system requirements, I was trying to figure out why it may be that way.
- brokenmachine 10y agoWhat are you talking about? Women usually take the surname of their husbands in western countries. Edit: oh, sorry I thought you were being serious.