http://simonwillison.net/2010-06-17T19:44:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-06-17T19:44:00+00:002010-06-17T19:44:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jun/17/falsehoods/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/">Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/i18n">i18n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/l10n">l10n</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/names">names</a></p>