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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)
- cgoodmac 12y agoGiven all the concerns listed here, what's a good way to store names?
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoUTF8, no length limit, no parsing into pieces (first/last etc).
- tbrownaw 12y agoWhatever is closest to matching all the other systems you have to talk to, or expect to have to talk to. compatibility > correctness Humans are more fault-tolerant than computers.