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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2016-03-15 11:52 am
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[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It was weird: it took some time for the site to decide that it really, really didn't like Ctein's one name name. Just removing Ctein's name didn't help. I had to delete the review entirely and reinput it.
Edited 2016-03-15 16:59 (UTC)
ext_63737: Posing at Zeusaphone concert, 2008 (Blinking12)

[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
A scandalous example of the monophobia so rampant among database programmers.

[identity profile] icecreamempress.livejournal.com 2016-03-15 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
We used to have that problem with Madonna and Cher in my library days when computers were young. And other people who were born mononymic, of course.

I would have thought some enterprising Burmese/Indonesian/South Indian/Afghan/(I'm likely forgetting a bunch) programmer would have fixed this by now. It has to come up pretty often there.

[identity profile] w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com) 2016-03-16 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure they have. That doesn't mean it will get adopted everywhere. Heck, people are still getting hit through security bugs that were first fixed more than a decade ago.

[identity profile] nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com) 2016-03-16 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a famous article about the problem, "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" written by an expat in Japan.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

[identity profile] w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com) 2016-03-17 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I loved that when I first read it 8-)
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