Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by djcapelis on Saturday November 09, 2019 @01:00PM
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I have a one letter first name and Air New Zealand refused to book me with only one letter in my name and then equally refused to change it when it caused problems later matching my frequent flier mile account on another airline without charging the ridiculous name change fee, which the airline agent at the desk said the computer system would not allow her to waive.
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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by teddyh on Saturday November 09, 2019 @09:42PM
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“People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.”
— #39, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by randomidiot123 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:14AM
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I'm not talking about computer systems. It is trivial to write code to handle an arbitrary UTF-8 string. I mean for his own sake, it's probably best to have a real name.
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by AndrewDucker on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:48AM
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He has a real name.
You continuing to assert that his name is in some way not real is incredibly rude.
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by tastroder on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:01AM
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Do you even realize how rude and offensive this suggestion sounds? For most people their name is quite a large part of their identity, it's not on you (or developers of the protocols in question for that matter) to decide what does or does not constitute a "real name".
The mere fact that you're reading about these cases here should be good enough of an indication that they're indeed not seeing it as a waste of time.
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by dylan604 on Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:16PM
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But how much time would then be wasted writing/typing out all of those extra letters in their name? Then, dealing with updating every account they have. Your sarcastic response wsan't even well thought out. Developer's time is expensive to waste in a gov't office to address a bug left from their parents.
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by randomidiot123 on Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:26PM
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I was not being sarcastic whatsoever. I know two people who have changed their name because they didn't like the name they were born with. My suggestion is 100% dead serious.