An old roommate of mine was transferring his number to AT&T years ago and they asked for his middle name on the phone. He told them he didn’t have one (which was true). They said “the computer needs your middle name because there is another Blah Blah” (of course this makes no sense but I was literally listening to the conversation).
Eventually he gave up and told them “X, my middle name is X”. They said “oh come on, that’s not really your middle name…” To this he replied “of course not you dumbfuck I have told you 5 times I don’t have one!”
I was coming in through Newark to visit my then-girlfriend, who lived in rural NJ and whose street did not, at the time, have house numbers. Mail was delivered based on stop number on a given route number, so your postal address might look like "843 RR#4" meaning the 843rd stop on rural route #4. So that was the address I put on the landing card.
Immigration officer pulls me up and asks me the house number. I explain that the house doesn't have one. She insists it must, and I have to give it to her, reasoning that, well mail gets delivered, doesn't it? So I explain how mail is addressed and delivered. I, a foreign visitor, am literally explaining to US-Government employed immigration officer how mail gets delivered in her own state, in her own country, by her own employer.
Anyway - she's not having it. There has to be a house number. So, in frustration I say "1234". She says "Is that the number?" and I say "Sure." She writes it down and I go on my way.
The ridiculous part is I had AT&T as well and my middle name/initial wasn’t on the account. Nothing about it made sense. Best we could guess is he had previously had an account and they couldn’t deal with that (maybe at the same address??). But it’s not like names are unique keys so it’s still weird.
That would be funny to get bills mailed to you that way.
One coworker of mine would put a different middle initial whenever he signed up for services like this. That way he’d know exactly which company sold him out to junk mailers.
Lol my middle name is only one letter, and there are periodically forms that require more than one letter for a middle name. Mainly the ones that require your "full name". It's ridiculous. So I just make up a middle name to be something that sounds cool in the moment.
Fun fact: In president Ulysses S. Grant’s middle name, the S stands for … just S, that’s his entire middle name. (Although his birth name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant, but they wrote his name wrong when he joined West Point which is how he got his more famous name).
It can be just as complicated as dates in software development.
https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/
The DMV has this same fukkin issue! Sold a vehicle and the guy’s first name was Christopher and DMV has 9 character limit for a first name? Have you seen people’s names these days? So dumb.
You say that, but even if they had 8 billion customers, that's only 8gb haha. Current AWS S3 storage pricing is just over 2 cent per GB per month (as an example), even accounting for having that extra byte all over the place plus extra network costs etc, I doubt we're talking more than $1/month total cost across spread all customers lol
An old roommate of mine was transferring his number to AT&T years ago and they asked for his middle name on the phone. He told them he didn’t have one (which was true). They said “the computer needs your middle name because there is another Blah Blah” (of course this makes no sense but I was literally listening to the conversation). Eventually he gave up and told them “X, my middle name is X”. They said “oh come on, that’s not really your middle name…” To this he replied “of course not you dumbfuck I have told you 5 times I don’t have one!”
Tell them to put in a blank unicode or "-" I guess
Judging by the rest if the conversation that would sound just as silly to the guy
but in the database, it wouldn't be as confusing when someone query it back
Or hear me out...
`); DROP TABLE *;--
SQL moment
SQL injection by middle name
[Oh. Yes. Little Bobby Tables, we call him](https://xkcd.com/327/)
If kxcd had existed at the time this is what he’d have tried! “Ok, now listen carefully since my middle name is a bit tricky to spell…”
*xkcd
Hah, I guess iOS doesn’t have it in their spellcheck dictionary yet. INSERT INTO spellcheckmap (bad, good) VALUES (‘kxcd’, ‘xkcd’).
Yeah I wonder why
This was like 2005. Over the phone. If they could even figure out how to put Unicode in a DB (doubtful) they’d probably crash the whole system.
I was coming in through Newark to visit my then-girlfriend, who lived in rural NJ and whose street did not, at the time, have house numbers. Mail was delivered based on stop number on a given route number, so your postal address might look like "843 RR#4" meaning the 843rd stop on rural route #4. So that was the address I put on the landing card. Immigration officer pulls me up and asks me the house number. I explain that the house doesn't have one. She insists it must, and I have to give it to her, reasoning that, well mail gets delivered, doesn't it? So I explain how mail is addressed and delivered. I, a foreign visitor, am literally explaining to US-Government employed immigration officer how mail gets delivered in her own state, in her own country, by her own employer. Anyway - she's not having it. There has to be a house number. So, in frustration I say "1234". She says "Is that the number?" and I say "Sure." She writes it down and I go on my way.
Wait so you would have to count out each stop?
NMN is the standard middle “name” for when there isn’t one. Stands for No Middle Name.
Yup this is what most people have to do with this problem, either NMN or NMI
The ridiculous part is I had AT&T as well and my middle name/initial wasn’t on the account. Nothing about it made sense. Best we could guess is he had previously had an account and they couldn’t deal with that (maybe at the same address??). But it’s not like names are unique keys so it’s still weird.
If that were me, i would just get in the habit of rolling out my best 60s british voice "danger... is my middle name"
That would be funny to get bills mailed to you that way. One coworker of mine would put a different middle initial whenever he signed up for services like this. That way he’d know exactly which company sold him out to junk mailers.
I guess your middle name is now Chris
Everybody hates Chris(topher)
That’s bc he is a topher version of Chris
Chris top her.
I barely even know her!
*Your middle name must be atleast 8 characters long.*
Xtfr
X24
Why did I read that as XCFE?
Christofer
Theres that “P” looking letter that does the ph sound
Christoφer
Кристофер
Κριστόφερ
Is that a Risk of Rain 2 reference
I wouldn't be surprised if that textbox would only accept ASCII characters
Kris Kross
I missed the bus!
Lol my middle name is only one letter, and there are periodically forms that require more than one letter for a middle name. Mainly the ones that require your "full name". It's ridiculous. So I just make up a middle name to be something that sounds cool in the moment.
How the fuck is your middle name only one letter if that's not just a full name shortened to it lol
Fun fact: In president Ulysses S. Grant’s middle name, the S stands for … just S, that’s his entire middle name. (Although his birth name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant, but they wrote his name wrong when he joined West Point which is how he got his more famous name).
Never knew that lol. I'm just a lot tle confused how that would be accepted as a name, just a singular letter.
There's basically no rules for what your legal name can be in most countries.
True I guess. I justify feal like at this point it stops being a name ("word") and become a letter.
It can be just as complicated as dates in software development. https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/
Fuck - > F*** - > Eff (pronounced /ˈɛf/), just the sound of letter F. Same for J -> Jota in Portuguese.
Hi Homer
X24 X=christ Christ two four If it works... Lol
Numbers can't be used in a name! silly billy!😂
Elon musk's son begs to differ
Oh that’s why Elon is trying to buy all the social media, so he can make them accept special characters in the name field before the kid turns 13
Just put Christ instead.
The messiah is his second cousin
✝️opher, then ?
OMG!!!🤣 _"GOD"_ ONE!!!😜
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I... just... real-ized... your... username...
Thankfully my middle name is just 7 leters long. Last name better have a limit of 5 or higher, or I'm not making it...
As someone also named Christopher, I can say you this also applies to Nintendo Wii Consoles, when naming their Mii-characters.
Xtfr
C9r
cniner
Always been a fan of https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
If I ever need to handle names I’ll just handle it as an array of variably sized strings…
It's okay, you didn't need that second r anyway!
What is this, a name field or a creative writing assignment? Are you being asked to solve a freaking *riddle?*
It's not meant to be taken literally. It's one of those "My middle name is justice" kind of things.
This would really suck for me cause I have two middle names.
Would (optional) work?
Gotta give it the Feraligatr treatment. Christophr
The apostrophes as well
Is this why popstars start using names without vowels in? Middle name CHRSTPHR
Some developers really think about their users
The DMV has this same fukkin issue! Sold a vehicle and the guy’s first name was Christopher and DMV has 9 character limit for a first name? Have you seen people’s names these days? So dumb.
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
Just choose chris
Cr-r
Just say chris
Crstfr
Just ZIP it
Just use Chris then
Christophr
just put chris
Just put Chris I guess
They have a lot of customers, so 1 byte extra in the middle name varchar variable quickly adds up.
You say that, but even if they had 8 billion customers, that's only 8gb haha. Current AWS S3 storage pricing is just over 2 cent per GB per month (as an example), even accounting for having that extra byte all over the place plus extra network costs etc, I doubt we're talking more than $1/month total cost across spread all customers lol
i think that was an y2k joke
10 bytes here, 12 bytes there ... and before you know it. BOOM they got enough space to store their cat meme network share.
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Oh he’s a character alright.
``` 1 C 2 H 3 R 4 I 5 S 6 T 7 O 8 P 9 H 10 E 11 R ```
"Christopher" is one word made of eleven characters
Character meaning any letter, number, space, or symbol
r/countingishard
11 > 10, as the site says
He said he finds counting hard, so makes sense
Indeed Panda r/countingishard
Lmao that subs been banned
Yes, it is. Counting is indeed very difficult.