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mmm-hmmm!! i’m not sure i’ve ever had this happen (though i know a lot of people with last names like “li” have run into it)

uhhh what? that’s ludicrous. and like, what harm does that prevent? it’s not like if someone sneaks three straight As into a name it results in a buffer overflow or whatever

Probably because the front-end coder had to apply the data-validation rules that the guy who wrote the database imposed. Also because the database coder failed to think that names can come from any other culture but their own, so presumably they were a junior programmer or an AI.

yeah, but also they all presumably work at the place that makes the app (and “don’t apply arbitrary validation rules to name fields” is a well-known enough concept at this point that i think it’s fair game to critique the dev for, no matter how junior)

One sad thing about AI is that it places increasing areas of software development into the hands of inexperienced users, such as management and graphic designers. Also, teams at larger companies don't always communicate, or get listened to...

Heh, I was on a flight with JetBlue yesterday and I couldn't log in to the screen because they have a 2 digit requirement for birth year. I was born last century. When I tried faking it and put in 01, I couldn't log in because the birth year didn't match my profile.

My email address is two characters before the @, and some place wouldn't let me use that email to create an account, saying it's too short. Many developers don't understand name or email validation.

I had an argument with an old manager who wanted to run every name through a function to capitalise the first letter and lower ever other. This is "the standard way of doing things in data engineering". I'd recently married and had a hyphenated name that wouldn't survive this transformation.

Yeah, he wound up hiring a contractor to do all the things everyone else pushed back on and relegating them to menial tasks until they all quit. Fortunately that company went bust so that particular issue is no more.

I also have a composite family name, but no hyphen... you don't know how many systems automatically change my first family name into a middle name... They are lucky I don't use my TWO middle names on top of that...

I grew up with a composite name (Dutch, with a van, lower case) that was constantly getting mangled. I changed that when I came out as changed and then married and got a hyphenated surname. I hate assumptions about names. No computer knows how every name works.