If this becomes a trend, we will all soon have to identify the full national data for every programmer we talk about on Hacker News. I can imagine the headlines

If this becomes a trend, we will all soon have to identify the full national data for every programmer we talk about on Hacker News. I can imagine the headlines: Saudi Arabian programmer fixes XSS vulnerability in Rails German engineer (who also holds a USA passport due to his American mother) finds new algorithm for error-detection of communications over rusty wires Programmer from Brazil, now a British citizen but also holding a Canadian passport via his wife, discovers method for instant startups of apps on the JVM.