Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

Exactly, it's not like the Hackage people are doing extensive background checks of everyone, they just want something consistent. You guys don't _really_ think my name is Joe Fredette, right? I'm actually Batman. /Joe On Apr 4, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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Some people are paranoid about such things, for example because it would allow people to google-mine for things they'd rather a random HR person not reading by linking names together.

In addition, the concept is rather silly, as one can just take a pseudonym without any of us knowing:

Whats new: Thu Apr 1 13:37:00 UTC 2010 NicolasBourbaki algebre-1.0

History is ripe with examples of this.

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