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Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#72I've got a three letter twitter (/x?) handle it happens all the time. It's not quite annoying enough to change my username though.
I have my HN username at gmail, and the novelty... wears off. So many recipts, confirmations, random bccs... Where it gets really ugly is gmail's (incredibly dumb, imo) feature where dots don't matter. I've had mulitple people get quite insistent that they own the email tyler.e gmail, which of course routes to...
I registered this username at one of the early big name webmail services. Not unimaginably rare, sure, but neither is it jsmith or the like.
You’d be shocked how many different people have signed up for stuff with that email address that I’ve had for like 20 years (and only ever log into so I can check on the mayhem). I’ve had bank notices, home sale records, 2 people creating Facebook accounts, and plenty of other stuff.
If my name were as common as yours, I think I’d be ready to choke someone.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#73I accidentally pasted a backtrace into a github issue outside of a code block. It was a deep stack, with each line prefixed by "#0" "#1", "#2", etc. GitHub decided to turn these into links to the corresponding numbered issues, for every issue, (including back-reference notifications in each of those issues) and there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#74Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#75Your 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
;) Glad someone noticed it (or googled it, which to be fair is becoming even more commendable with time)
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#76Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#77Who's going to post the link to the Bobby Tables xkcd?
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/327/
And in case you never saw the above xkcd, here's one for you: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png redirects to)
That shows up as a picture of a worm for me. Edit: aha! The link forwards to https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23570?v=4
https://api.github.com/users/est might be easier to read for getting the ID.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have my HN username at gmail, and the novelty... wears off. So many recipts, confirmations, random bccs... Where it gets really ugly is gmail's (incredibly dumb, imo) feature where dots don't matter. I've had mulitple people get quite insistent that they own the email tyler.e gmail, which of course routes to...
I registered this username at one of the early big name webmail services. Not unimaginably rare, sure, but neither is it jsmith or the like. You’d be shocked how many different people have signed up for stuff with that email address that I’ve had for like 20 years (and only ever log into so I can check on the mayhem). I’ve had bank notices, home sale records, 2 people creating Facebook accounts, and plenty of other s…
i have a pretty rare last name (in my company of 225k, there's only one other for example) and I have first initial last name @ gmail since 2005.
The amount of mistaken emails I get is absurd.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#80Github has some very dangerous features when it comes to tagging and mentions. For example, when you add someone to an organisation, it autocompletes the username. We had someone with a fairly common name and accidentally added someone else to the org with a close but not identical name. Fortunately they didn't accept the invitation before we removed them again and added the correct person.