For reference [0].

It should be tough to have such a name. The most important systems like tax/insurance/airline booking are often the most unkind systems. If you're not familiar with computers, it's almost impossible to imagine the potential cause of problems is your name.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b... > These unlucky people have names that break computers

I had a PM who would get deleted out of the company directory every 6 months. She resolved the issue by getting married.

Don't change it to "None", though. That's just a curse for your grandchildren to deal with when Python eventually becomes the new old legacy system.

"Nil" is probably safe, because the lisp curse will actually work in your favor.

I wonder would Norway change their country code to avoid confusing "No"

This has got a "Bobby Tables"[1] vibe to it. While I personally do not like the concept of adjusting data to fit a tool, as others have pointed out, Excel, for better or worse, is ubiquitous. To the obvious detriment of genomics. And likely others.

Any tool that seeks to replace it would need to be as easy to use, as flexible. And preferably fewer bugs.

The problem is that the paradigm for spreadsheets works well for many projects, even if the implementations are crap.

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/5/5f/exploits_of_a_m...

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