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The great displacement is already well underway?

(shawnfromportland.substack.com)
512 points JSLegendDev | 9 comments | 12 May 25 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.962s | source | bottom
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hackingonempty ◴[13 May 25 18:17 UTC] No.43975980[source]▶
I think your name is unduly handicapping you. Since it is only a single letter people reading your resume think you are being coy and trashing it.

On you resume, change your name to "Shawn Kay." Wait until you're doing HR paperwork to use your legal name.

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1. WalterBright ◴[13 May 25 19:22 UTC] No.43976614[source]▶
Long ago I knew a person named Gregg. He constantly had to correct peoples' spelling of his name.

Why would parents burden their kid like this?

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2. collinvandyck76 ◴[13 May 25 19:55 UTC] No.43976991[source]▶
I'm a Collin with two l's. Not as uncommon as Gregg but it's never been a burden. I also don't bother correcting people unless it's happening a lot with the same person and someone I expect to interact with a lot.
3. mserdarsanli ◴[13 May 25 20:41 UTC] No.43977471[source]▶
Why would any parent name their child water with an extra L?
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4. s1artibartfast ◴[13 May 25 21:02 UTC] No.43977695[source]▶
It really shouldnt be a problem, and in the case of simple corrections, it isnt.

I think it does become a problem where formal systems are inflexible and unable to accommodate or be corrected.

5. cellis ◴[13 May 25 21:46 UTC] No.43978114[source]▶
More importantly, why don't adults give up names that clearly put them at an economic disadvantage? The same reason people don't sell houses when they are almost always a bad investment; pride, sunk-costs, sentimentalism or other reasons for their subjectivity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/10hssp8/why_do_p...

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6. p3rls ◴[14 May 25 02:35 UTC] No.43980138[source]▶
As an orphan that has wanted a last name change-- it's mostly because I am afraid of being locked out of my google account. Haven't I suffered enough?
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7. OgsyedIE ◴[14 May 25 10:26 UTC] No.43982869{3}[source]▶
Google has a surprising plethora of functioning, non-buggy tools for migrating an account's data to a different account. Do some research about what can't be migrated and make the change for everything else.
8. WalterBright ◴[14 May 25 19:39 UTC] No.43988384[source]▶
Nobody has ever misspelled my first name. They never misspelled the last one before "lite" beer appeared.
9. theoreticalmal ◴[15 May 25 00:37 UTC] No.43990652[source]▶
When you order Starbucks and say your name is “Gregg with three gs”, does the barista write something wild like “grgeg”?