Saturn Run by John Sandford & Ctein

[james_davis_nicoll]

THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH MY SITE. WORKING ON IT



Saturn Run by John Sandford & Ctein

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH MY SITE. WORKING ON IT

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Guess I got lucky, having spotted your mention of the review on Twitter, which offered a link that worked just fine.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

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.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

A scandalous example of the monophobia so rampant among database programmers.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

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.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

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.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

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/

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, I loved that when I first read it 8-)