Using name instead of initials

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Sep 12 15:15:44 UTC 2005


Are you joking? in 2005 playing with 2 characters instead of 15 does  
not make sense.
Why people should get a account on Squeakmap to use MC? or Squeak?
I think that this does not make sense.

>>> Yes. I totally agree with you.
>>> The community is enough big that we easily find other developers  
>>> with
>>> the same initials.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I *don't* agree - just use SM instead! The initials are ensured to be
>> unique on SM and looking up a name is trivial - just add some code to
>> the tools that do this:

I'm not hacking the tools. I'm reviewing code that should be  
published or
not and I'm reading initials and I do not know what are these persons.
So may be I should stop harvesting after all.

>>
>>     (SMSqueakMap default accountForUsername: 'gk') name
>>
>>     (SMSqueakMap default accountForUsername: 'gk') email
>>
>> ...and you get the email too.
>>
>
> +1
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>




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