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GUIDs are really unreadable and long. You can read and remember some numeric ID, but GUID/UUIDs – totally impossible. I hated them after Microsoft COM.
by varelaz 7y ago
GUIDs are really unreadable and long. You can read and remember some numeric ID, but GUID/UUIDs – totally impossible. I hated them after Microsoft COM.
- joshstrange 7y agoI'm not sure I need "readable and short" to be qualities of my unique identifiers. I copy/paste and UUID/GUID I come across and if you have foreign keys setup you can jump around the DB in most GUI clients with ease, never even having to copy/paste. Furthermore when I'm talking with my coworkers we always just read off the 2nd "set" of numbers/letters in the UUID. In the example of `c495d443-cc7d-4030-840c-8f7e4e0289c3` I will just say "cc7d", 99.9% of the time that is enough to uniquely identify a UUID when we are only dealing with a handful of them and want to pick one out by eye quickly. For anything else I just send them a chat with the UUID and they can query on it, grep, or find it in the results with Ctrl+F or whatever their tools support doing.