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Failing the search engine test is a feature, not a bug.
Parent commenter probably would use the word antifeature for it
I like how their usernames reflect their positions on usernames
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DROP TABLE
Little Nully we call him
https://xkcd.com/327/
relevant XKCD
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#44We had a bug recently where one of our internal bots didn't correctly parse usernames with hyphens in them, so instead of tagging @tom-jones, it would tag @tom Sorry everyone randomly pinged by our bot.
Talking about failing to parse names, I remember a co-worker once was working on a form and had added a special character validation field to the name field. The only problem was that it blocked apostrophes, and he was Irish so his form wouldn't actually accept his own name.
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#45Your username should pass the "search engine" test as well That is, calling yourself a too short or generic name might have been a brag 20 years ago, but now it's just an annoyance
however, taking your name from an Atari Teenage Riot song is forever braggable
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#46I used to work at Realm (the mobile database company). In order to keep an eye on what was going on, there was a Slack integration that reposted any mention of @realm on Twitter.
One morning, we woke up to a #twitter channel full of very nearly porn. Young men, scantily dressed, flexing their abs and flashing smiles at the camera.
Turns out someone added a bot on Twitter that would repost things from Instagram to Twitter, except that Instagram allows dots in usernames and Twitter didn’t. I think the IG account was @realm.of.beauty, which was promptly understood by Twitter as @realm.
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DROP TABLE
Little Nully we call him
عينول is a valid name, which can be poorly transliterated to Ai'null
Explaining the joke: The first letter is ain, written as a3 or 'a in some places. Pronounce a' with a soft stop. Because of this, legal names here sometimes include an apostrophe. Normally it's spelled 'Ainul, but one can misspell it.
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#49reset is in this useful list of reserved usernames: https://github.com/shouldbee/reserved-usernames
I wonder if they'd appreciate me sending a PR to replace "twitter" with "x".
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#50I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.