On Monday 24 January 2011 01:06:21 Walter Bright wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 January 2011 23:53:27 Don Clugston wrote:
> >> On 24 January 2011 07:31, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> >>> On Sunday 23 January 2011 22:15:15 Brad Roberts wrote:
> >>>> For what it's worth, I assumed that 'complexmath' was Don at first. :)
> >>> 
> >>> LOL. And I thought that it might be dsimcha (but then again, I could clearly see Don on the list at that point).
> >> 
> >> I was sure it was dsimcha.
> > 
> > He'll probably pick dsimcha though, since that's what he uses on stackoverflow, as well as dsource and the newsgroup. Still, he was the first one who came to mind for a username like that, given how much he seems to do with math-related stuff.
> 
> I'd like as a general policy for committers to D-Programming-Language that real names are used. If, some time in the future, there is some legal question about the commits that blub8739 did, I'd like to be able to know who it was!

What, you don't think that blub8739 was his real name?! How very skeptical of you. ;)

- Jonathan M Davis


P.S. I would feel very sorry for blub8739 if that were actually his real name...

My brother used to go to school with a fellow named Nilknarf. Apparently, his mother wouldn't let his father (whose name was Franklin) name the kid Franklin Jr, so he got named Franklin backwards...

It's more appropriate I suppose :-). It was the result of an hours-long attempt to find an unclaimed IM nick without numbers in it.

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On Jan 23, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I assumed that 'complexmath' was Don at first. :)
> 
> On 1/23/2011 10:10 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I'll add a real name, etc.  I got sick of name collisions using more normal choices ages ago and settled on a nick that no one ever uses (except for some British dude on YouTube).  The upshot is that I use the same nick everywhere.
>> 
>> On Jan 23, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sunday 23 January 2011 19:57:46 Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>> Oh, I suppose I should have said that the new repository is here:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime
>>> 
>>> LOL. You know, your github ID definitely doesn't give any clue as to who it is. The only reason that I was able to figure it out was due to the commit history.
>>> 
>>> Brad already gave me write-access to the git-ified druntime though, so you don't have to worry about it.
>>> 
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I'll see about creating a nick involving "Sean" if you'd prefer.

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On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Sunday 23 January 2011 23:53:27 Don Clugston wrote:
>> 
>>> On 24 January 2011 07:31, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sunday 23 January 2011 22:15:15 Brad Roberts wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> For what it's worth, I assumed that 'complexmath' was Don at first. :)
>>>>> 
>>>> LOL. And I thought that it might be dsimcha (but then again, I could
>>>> clearly see Don on the list at that point).
>>>> 
>>> I was sure it was dsimcha.
>>> 
>> 
>> He'll probably pick dsimcha though, since that's what he uses on stackoverflow, as well as dsource and the newsgroup. Still, he was the first one who came to mind for a username like that, given how much he seems to do with math-related stuff.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I'd like as a general policy for committers to D-Programming-Language that real names are used. If, some time in the future, there is some legal question about the commits that blub8739 did, I'd like to be able to know who it was!
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On Monday 24 January 2011 06:15:05 Sean Kelly wrote:
> I'll see about creating a nick involving "Sean" if you'd prefer.

As long as your real name is displayed, I don't see why it would be a problem. Apparently, you're only allowed to rename yourself once on github anyway. So, unless there's a big reason to, I'd think that it would be fine to leave it as is just so long as your real name is visible. I mean, even something like jmdavis or andralex aren't exactly enough to be sure about who is who anyway. So, complexmath isn't a problem, just surprising. If your real name is displayed with it, then there isn't any confusion.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Monday 24 January 2011 06:15:05 Sean Kelly wrote:
>> I'll see about creating a nick involving "Sean" if you'd prefer.
> 
> As long as your real name is displayed, I don't see why it would be a problem. Apparently, you're only allowed to rename yourself once on github anyway. So, unless there's a big reason to, I'd think that it would be fine to leave it as is just so long as your real name is visible. I mean, even something like jmdavis or andralex aren't exactly enough to be sure about who is who anyway. So, complexmath isn't a problem, just surprising. If your real name is displayed with it, then there isn't any confusion.

Okay, sounds good.  Using 'complexmath' is just a matter of consistency for me at this point.  I've used the nick for probably 10 years now.

Not necessary, as the profile has your name.

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I'll see about creating a nick involving "Sean" if you'd prefer.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 

On 24 January 2011 10:18, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2011 01:06:21 Walter Bright wrote:
>> I'd like as a general policy for committers to D-Programming-Language that real names are used. If, some time in the future, there is some legal question about the commits that blub8739 did, I'd like to be able to know who it was!
>
> What, you don't think that blub8739 was his real name?! How very skeptical of you. ;)
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>
>
> P.S. I would feel very sorry for blub8739 if that were actually his real name...
>
> My brother used to go to school with a fellow named Nilknarf. Apparently, his mother wouldn't let his father (whose name was Franklin) name the kid Franklin Jr, so he got named Franklin backwards...

Not bad.
I have a friend, "One Zero" whose full name is 1 0 6 9.
He's the first person in the world to have a number as a name. Took
him years of court battles to get it accepted.
But the door's open now for blub8739.

Don Clugston wrote:
>
> Not bad.
> I have a friend, "One Zero" whose full name is 1 0 6 9.
> He's the first person in the world to have a number as a name. Took
> him years of court battles to get it accepted.
> But the door's open now for blub8739.
> 

I would get extremely tired of having to explain the situation to every person I meet and every person I do business with.

Reminds me of the First family who named their son Safety. (Shudder) Of course, their daughter got the name April, which was far better.

On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> 
>> Not bad.
>> I have a friend, "One Zero" whose full name is 1 0 6 9.
>> He's the first person in the world to have a number as a name. Took
>> him years of court battles to get it accepted.
>> But the door's open now for blub8739.
>> 
> 
> I would get extremely tired of having to explain the situation to every person I meet and every person I do business with.
> 
> Reminds me of the First family who named their son Safety. (Shudder) Of course, their daughter got the name April, which was far better.

So how did April like going through life being known as the April Fool?  I guess if you're going to give your kid a weird name you may as well go all the way with it.  And here we went so far as to ensure that even our kids' initials didn't spell anything that could be a source of name-calling.  Ah well.

Sean Kelly wrote:
>
> So how did April like going through life being known as the April Fool?  I guess if you're going to give your kid a weird name you may as well go all the way with it.  And here we went so far as to ensure that even our kids' initials didn't spell anything that could be a source of name-calling.  Ah well.
> 

These days I'd be tempted to name a kid after a celebrity, so that cyberstalking them becomes impractical.