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| Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010) (kalzumeus.com) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 150 points by rahuldottech | software design | original thread | | ||
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> Noelia Noel She is from Argentina. Both are common given names and family names here. Neither is in the top 10 list, but they are not unusual to cause surprise. I'd recommend to avoid using both together to avoid nasty online comments. > Astha Astha She is from India. Astha is a common given name there. It looks like it's common in some areas to have only a given name and no family name. I guess in some form she was had to fill a family name and decided to repeat the given name instead of using NULL. Link to the classic article by patio11: "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" (2010) https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... (a few HN discussions, in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21492464 | 150 points | Nov 2019 | 144 comments) |
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It's never wrong to review that famous and ever-relevant essay, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, and for which there has been oodles of prior discussion on this forum:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12450825
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21492464
Original at https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...