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Why would you try to use a 42 characters long email when you seemingly have access to shorter ones? From your HN profile: > fe {at} f19n .dot. com Are you re
by chockchocschoir 5y ago
Why would you try to use a 42 characters long email when you seemingly have access to shorter ones?
From your HN profile:
> fe {at} f19n .dot. com
Are you really commonly using a 42 characters long email? How does that work when you fill out paper forms that asks for emails? I usually use one that is 16 characters in total (including the domain part), and I already sometimes cannot fit it on the papers.
- Avamander 5y agoBecause people have longer names. I just "love" how anglosphere programmers just assume so many wrong things.
- chockchocschoir 5y agoI love how people assume others are "anglosphere programmers". For the record, my official name is 40+ characters and I'm neither from nor live in any english speaking country. But peoples official names have nothing to do with your personal email addresses, as you usually get to choose whatever you want for those.
- Avamander 5y agoWell there was that explanation or one other I won't mention. So you have a relatively long name and you are still asking why someone would use their real name in an e-mail? Because almost everyone else is, they should be able to too. It's not very difficult to understand really.
- chockchocschoir 5y ago> So you have a relatively long name and you are still asking why someone would use their real name in an e-mail? Yes, this is precisely why I'm asking, I have a long name but won't use my full name for my email because it is just that, long. Even with my abbreviated email address I'm having a hard time to fit it on forms, why would I make my life even more difficult and use my full name when I can chose whatever I want when creating my email address? It's not very difficult to understand really. And yeah, life is unfair if you're different, because different things were built for different things. Understanding this is also not very difficult to understand. As someone not-from-the-anglosphere, you learn to try to workaround where your abnormalities don't fit in, otherwise you miss out.
- Avamander 5y agoI guess I now understand your position, the question is fair but I think its fundamentals are wrong. There's no benefit to accepting, forgiving and finding workarounds for out-of-spec behaviour that causes arbitrary unfairness. The discussion should end at the conclusion that (those) programmers should write better code, they have written bad code and not that the victim should adapt around the bad code.
- chockchocschoir 5y agoI agree that everyone should do better work, programmers including. But that doesn't actually solve anything at hand. I guess are difference is that I'm seeing this as a practical issue that has a pragmatic solution, at least for me, since I care about moving on with my day, while you feel it's better to just give up and not use something if you can't use your email address for it. The benefit for finding workarounds is that you can still use that thing you were trying to use.
- franze 5y agoi have access to the shorter one (i.e. for paper forms), but it's a mail-redirect. my logins are unified over my "real" one.
- cryvate1284 5y agoIt might be a work address (easily done with john.doe@acompany.com), but 40 is not very much though regardless...
- Liquid_Fire 5y agoTo be fair, a form that doesn't fit 16 characters is just asking for trouble. "@gmail.com" alone is already 10 characters, so that would not fit most people's email addresses given few people will have a 5-character username. Of course, on a paper form you can always just ignore the boxes and write more...