[Haskell-cafe] Hackage accounts and real names

Jesper Louis Andersen jesper.louis.andersen at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 19:58:47 EDT 2010


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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.

-- 
J.


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