American Express: your last name is improper
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American Express: your last name is improper
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Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#2That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit. On the other hand there was that guy who changed his name to "Spider Mann" who had all kinds of problems because of it... But in that case you could say it is his own damn fault whereas if you have an unusual family name because of your culture you really can say you're a victim.
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#3Relevant: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... (maybe Amex developers stopped reading before reaching 31)
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#4That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit. On the other hand there was that guy who changed his name to "Spider Mann" who had all kinds of problems because of it... But in that case you could say it is his own damn fault whereas if you have an unusual family name because of your culture you really can say you're a victim.
> That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit
I don't think names are a protected class, right? Regardless it is stupid, but I'm not sure if it on its own can be called anything else than lazy engineering.
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#5Addresses in Scotland use a slash to separate flat number from street number; e.g. 15/4 West Wallaby Way is equivalent to Building 15, Flat4, West Wallaby Way.
I've had multiple websites tell me that my address isn't valid, and some delivery companies remove the number after the slash so the delivery driver knows which building, but not which flat.
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#6That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit. On the other hand there was that guy who changed his name to "Spider Mann" who had all kinds of problems because of it... But in that case you could say it is his own damn fault whereas if you have an unusual family name because of your culture you really can say you're a victim.
Thomas, Heinrich, and Golo would have sympathized with poor old Spider, I'm sure.
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#7That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit. On the other hand there was that guy who changed his name to "Spider Mann" who had all kinds of problems because of it... But in that case you could say it is his own damn fault whereas if you have an unusual family name because of your culture you really can say you're a victim.
> That seems like a way to get a discrimination lawsuit I don't think names are a protected class, right? Regardless it is stupid, but I'm not sure if it on its own can be called anything else than lazy engineering.
Names are an attribute.
Hijabs and turbans are not protected classes either, but religion is.
In this case, one would argue nationality, probably, but I'm not sure what the strength of a lawsuit would be or on what basis.
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#8Relevant: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... (maybe Amex developers stopped reading before reaching 31)
This is exactly the list I was thinking of.
> I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it.
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#9Even in some world where such a list made sense to check it's still nowhere remotely close to being correct anyways - e.g. "seamen" is blocked not "semen" and it's only got a few entries.
Re: American Express: your last name is improper
#10Addresses in Scotland use a slash to separate flat number from street number; e.g. 15/4 West Wallaby Way is equivalent to Building 15, Flat4, West Wallaby Way. I've had multiple websites tell me that my address isn't valid, and some delivery companies remove the number after the slash so the delivery driver knows which building, but not which flat.
The addressing system in New Zealand is also some especial "I have seen things" and I never worked on it but my colleagues said that Tokyo was also "you should pull up a chair"