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I 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 s

I 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 ago
Well 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      I 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.

Avamander 5y ago

Well 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    I 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.