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Also, none of these unfounded preconceptions make intuitive sense, so I don't see why people would believe them.
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AFAIK, The YouTube implementation does all of those. Here is a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqPe-IceP4 Please do not spread falsehoods. Disclamer: I work at YouTube.
http://take.ms/fwwhx That is frustratingly poor contrast.
Here is what mine look like http://imgur.com/HLIVXQ6
You can click settings again to change font sizes, font family, colors, etc.
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But sometimes your government expects names to be broken into given and family names (the US, Japan, and China all seem to make this assumption -- every government form I've seen from those countries wants your name fully broken out). I've no direct experience with, say, Russian or Latin American governments, but cultures that use explicit patronymic or matronymic names might expect that broken out as well. If you ev…
I'm explicitly disregarding government websites here, since the government has a legitimate reason to care about my full name (and gets to define what a "legal" name means), and also 99% of the websites that I sign up for are unrelated to the government. There's no reason for a social network to report the names of all its users to a government agency automatically, and I'm skeptical that even my bank would have such…
At the end of the day there are cultural conventions around names, and various agencies use them. I don't see why software should be explicitly culturally neutral, unless your audience is explicitly a global one (and even then, I think localization is preferable to just sticking names into a single field).
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It's true that you have to draw a line somewhere based on technical and business constraints, but an important takeaway of the names article is that you almost certainly don't need to do anything with a name other than treat it as an opaque string that can be displayed back to the user. For example, I'm struggling to think of a good reason why user registration would require separate first name and last name fields,…
But sometimes your government expects names to be broken into given and family names (the US, Japan, and China all seem to make this assumption -- every government form I've seen from those countries wants your name fully broken out). I've no direct experience with, say, Russian or Latin American governments, but cultures that use explicit patronymic or matronymic names might expect that broken out as well. If you ev…
In Ukraine we either have three fields in government forms (Family name, Given name, Patronymic) or two (Family name, Given name), for example on ticket booking forms. Or just one, but you should write names in FGP order.
Funny thing is that patronymic part is left out in transliteration, so in travel documents you see FGP form in Cyrillic and FG form in Latin letters. Transliteration algorithm is a bit funny, so people tend to have different Latin spelling of same name. And even different Cyrillic spelling of same name, depending if it's written in Ukrainian or Russian - Ukrainian, because Russian doesn't have dotted and double-dotted "i", the use "и" instead.
In past the formal way to address people used given name and patronymic, but that's not that true anymore.
In documents, sometimes full FGP form is only used at the start of the document and subsequent uses just include family name and first two letters of given and patronymic name. Tha is the only thing you can safely do automatically. Signatures also use this short form.
Other thing is that, male and female version of patronymic and family name can differ, so you can't even compare names, not just process them automatically.
And the good thing with patronymic names - combination of three names and birth date uniquely identifies 99.7% of voters, so this really matters.
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http://take.ms/fwwhx That is frustratingly poor contrast.
This might be because you might have changed your settings for CC in the past. Here is what mine look like http://imgur.com/HLIVXQ6 You can click settings again to change font sizes, font family, colors, etc.
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This might be because you might have changed your settings for CC in the past. Here is what mine look like http://imgur.com/HLIVXQ6 You can click settings again to change font sizes, font family, colors, etc.
I have to change my CC settings every damn couple of days because they revert to the same white-on-white 400% bullshit. So thanks for that.
However, software that is 100% perfect is pretty much impossible to write, and if you think there's a systematic issue, please file a bug, so it can help others in same situation.
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It's also missing the most common error I see: conflating subtitles with closed captions. Closed captions are positioned on the screen to indicate who's talking, have descriptive audio for sound effects, and should be in a high contrast easy to read font (most people with hearing deficiencies also have problems seeing, ie: out of date prescriptions for both hearing aids and eye glasses). As far as I know, QuickTime d…
Okay, so how are subtitles different?
can we have falsehoods programmers believe besides video that are more common? this list probably is relevant for 1% of programmers here.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=falsehoods%20programmers%20bel...
And while this topic is not personally relevant to me since I don't work with video decoding, I do find learning about different technologies interesting. Reading this gives me an appreciation for how much effort goes into making video, something we all take for granted, work.
If people only posted articles that were relevant to a majority of readers, HN would be a much less interesting place.
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That's easy, it's to make better marketing materials. "Dear [first name]," flows better than "Dear [opaque string],".
That's what the marketing department may believe, but in reality that's super creepy. Let's not pretend that I'm on a friendly first-name basis with corporations, or that in reality I'm anything more than an autogenerated numeric ID in a database as far as the corporation is concerned. Furthermore, nobody but my mother calls me by my real first name, and this holds for half of my cohort. And why does any company thin…
Far creepier is the thing where they use your purchase history to make predictions about your health condition, like where Target would send out baby-related stuff when its algorithms discerned that customers were likely pregnant: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t...
Compared to that stuff, "Dear Frondo" seems absolutely benign.
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AFAIK, The YouTube implementation does all of those. Here is a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqPe-IceP4 Please do not spread falsehoods. Disclamer: I work at YouTube.
http://take.ms/fwwhx That is frustratingly poor contrast.