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Yesterday's story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593799 ) made me understand one thing I thought was bon
by B1FF_PSUVM 4y ago
Yesterday's story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31593799 ) made me understand one thing I thought was bonkers.
Working a bit with one Indian company, I was puzzled by their mandated usernames of the form FirstnameInitialDigit, e.g. johns1 if you're John Smith.
It was sad learning that people had to give up using family names for practical reasons.
- thematrixturtle 4y agoI don't think that has anything to do with caste? Some old systems limited usernames to 8 characters max, Indian surnames can be very long, and there are lots of people with identical names.
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoOoo, that's a really interesting example of a Chesterson's Fence situation. I too would never have thought there might be an extremely intentional meaning behind that naming process and would quite possibly have changed it given the opportunity without further consideration.