24680th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7))

Society if better coding.

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Almost makes me regret not going into CS.
Almost.

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my god

How is this something theyā€™ve never accounted for! People have, like, names with different spellings, or multiple first names, or go by their middle name, how come you canā€™t just write YES THIS IS ALSO ME and their system handles that

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My university literally just has a prefered name and they change literally Eveyrhing in every system if you ever change the preferred name

itā€™s caused a lot of issues for me because I use my middle name as my preferred name and then also use my first names on tests and Iā€™m too lazy to fix it

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international students and trans students really got some insane alliance against these stupid university naming systems

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Between not wanting my name on 1/2 of things to be male and the girl next to me not wanting her name on 1/2 of things to be korean, we can really fuckin tackle these inefficiencies

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My middle name is great for friends while my first name is great for making a good generic first impression

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Like in an interview ā€œx yā€

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Didnā€™t think of that when setting preferences though

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My mom uses her maiden name professionally and her married name in her personal life and she said itā€™s nice to have because you can tell where somebody knows you from, and people canā€™t always look you up as easily if you donā€™t want them to

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So I was like huh sounds great. And did htat with my first name

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She did some trickery with a school board meeting where she was able to pretend she didnā€™t know somebody b/c she had two different names and her first name was generic enough that people didnā€™t immediately assume the names were the same person

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do u guys know my name i forgot if i told it

22

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you told me it

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If I ever get married, even if i took last name of other person, I probably just gonna use current last name, because itā€™s generic/unoffensive but has brandable intials

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yeah i was vat grown and they gave me the index 22 as i was the 22nd on the output line

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would consider doing a combination last name if whoever I married had another british last name, because people with two british last names seem wealthier to me, and if I was in a heavier finance job iā€™d want that

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I be mad trustin someone named like Jane Burton-Smithley to handle my finances

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