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For example, I like to put Batman as a dummy user I can't remember the details, but I've heard a story multiple times about a fake-sounding name being used in
by cperciva 1y ago
For example, I like to put Batman as a dummy user
I can't remember the details, but I've heard a story multiple times about a fake-sounding name being used in testing -- I think US military payroll? -- and causing problems when a real person had that name. Can anyone here remember this?
In any case, "batman" is just about plausible enough that it could be real. I tend to use names like "Mr. Testy Testalicious" which (a) contain the string "test", and (b) are so wildly absurd that I'm confident nobody will ever collide with it.
- jbverschoor 1y agolol I read something else right there
- eesmith 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(surname) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(surname) - 'Batman is a surname of English origin. It originates from Saint Bartholomew and means "a friend or servant of Bart."' It lists a few people, like "Daniel Batman (20 March 1981 – 26 June 2012) was an Australian sprinter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Batman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Batman A few DDG searches finds others with the surname Batman who are not famous enough to be on Wikipedia.
- cam_l 1y agoAside: Batman (John) is also a well known name in Melbourne, au. He was a kind of founding father. He negotiated a fake treaty to steal the land from the local Kulin nation. He wanted to call it Batmania. Also responsible for organising hunting parties for bushrangers and multiple massacres and genocide of aboriginal people in NSW, VIC, and TAS. Total fucking cunt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman
- userbinator 1y agoBatman is definitely a real name... https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24911186 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24911186
- oneshtein 1y agoMaybe, Foo Bar is a real person too. :-/
- spiffytech 1y agoI used to use Test T. Testerton until coworkers critiqued that "Test T" reminded them of male genitals.
- kstrauser 1y agoOur first user at one company was Richard Test. He had user ID 1001. Well-meaning people deactivated his account several times over the years because it looked fake to them. Sorry, Richard. I hope you were more amused than annoyed.
- wolfgang42 1y agoI’ve told your story about Mr. Test to several people over the years but I’ve never been able to remember where I got it from. I’m glad to have finally found it again, and thank you for the anecdote!
- kstrauser 1y agoHah! That’s awesome. What a small world!
- indrora 1y agoOne of the audio checks I've heard over the many conventions I've volunteered for is "Ice Ice Icicles, Cue Cue Cuticles, Test... Test... Testicles" with the final word pronounced like Hercules.
- HeyLaughingBoy 1y ago[sigh] Now all I can think of is, "of course, you'll be playing the part of Sans Testicles."
- cratermoon 1y agoI have this one baked into my dummy data: Ralf Kramden 1060 W. Addision Chicago IL 60613 United States
- jszymborski 1y agoI usually use Adele Dazeem as in [0] [0] https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/adele-dazeem-idina-menzel-john-travolta-awards-insider https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/adele-dazeem-idina-menz...
- pluies 1y agoCaterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, famously had issues with IT systems: Tim: There’re so many places we could start, but in the process of doing homework for this, I found mentioned, and I wanted to do a fact check on this, of you having plane tickets automatically cancelled, and other issues related to your last name. Is that accurate? Did those things actually happen? Caterina Fake: This has happened to me many times, in fact. And I discovered that it was actually the systems at KLM and Northwest that would throw my ticket out, my last name being “Fake.” And I have missed flights and have spent way too many hours with customer service trying to fix this problem. Here’s another thing too, is that I was unable for the first two years of Facebook to make an account there also. And probably all of my relatives. https://tim.blog/2019/02/21/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-caterina-fake-360/ https://tim.blog/2019/02/21/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
- BurningFrog 1y agoPeople named Null are also having struggles in the modern world: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...
- MiddleEndian 1y agolol so much data gets converted into strings at some point when passed around. Definitely encountered systems where you have to check for both null and "null"
- adolph 1y agoThis seems like a good spot for the link to @patio11's "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" So, as a public service, I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to make less of them next time you write a system which touches names. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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- rzzzt 1y agoMajor Major Major from Catch-22?
- lapetitejort 1y agoDOGE is going to delete Jon Tester [0] from the list of historical senators [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Tester https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Tester
- eeiaeaa 1y agoI used to use Testy Tester until one of my coworkers commented that she was acquainted with the Tester family, and there were quite a few of them in the area. These days I usually have completely separate systems for testing, but even there I use something like Zzzperson for test data.