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Note that this sentence (and the whole article) contains the same mis-capitalization the articles complains Facebook is doing. It is most likely an aggressive f
by barkingcat 6y ago
Note that this sentence (and the whole article) contains the same mis-capitalization the articles complains Facebook is doing. It is most likely an aggressive final pass of spellcheck or auto-correct that wasn't re-incorrected before publishing, but really ironic all the same.
- prof-dr-ir 6y agoHah, I guess that would be falsehood number 7 in the above link ("People’s names do not change.") Are you a programmer by any chance? In Dutch one capitalizes 'De' if it is the first word of the name. So the article is correct (for example in ".. says De Zwart."), as is writing "Hans de Zwart" or even "Mr. de Zwart". Bonus points: figure out the correct capitalization (in different context) of Nobel prize winning physicist gerard 't hooft.
- superjan 6y agoNo, if you only write the last name in isolation then you should capitalize the ‘D’. So it’s Mr De Zwart, but Hans de Zwart.
- a1369209993 6y agoHonestly, this sounds less like "falsehoods programmers believe about names", and more like "natural language processing is terrible". A real name policy is unconscionable, of course, but "Found 1 sheeps."-isms on the display side are only a serious problem (rather than a nuisance) to the extent that they trigger (possibly latent) serious problems in something else.