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17th June 2010 - Link Blog

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. People’s names are complicated. I’m not at all comfortable with the commonly used first name / last name distinction (as baked in to Django auth) since it doesn’t take cultural factors in to account.

Posted 17th June 2010 at 7:44 pm

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