From your HN profile:
> fe {at} f19n .dot. com
Are you really commonly using a 42 characters long email? How does that work when you fill out paper forms that asks for emails? I usually use one that is 16 characters in total (including the domain part), and I already sometimes cannot fit it on the papers.
But peoples official names have nothing to do with your personal email addresses, as you usually get to choose whatever you want for those.
Because almost everyone else is, they should be able to too. It's not very difficult to understand really.
Yes, this is precisely why I'm asking, I have a long name but won't use my full name for my email because it is just that, long. Even with my abbreviated email address I'm having a hard time to fit it on forms, why would I make my life even more difficult and use my full name when I can chose whatever I want when creating my email address? It's not very difficult to understand really.
And yeah, life is unfair if you're different, because different things were built for different things. Understanding this is also not very difficult to understand. As someone not-from-the-anglosphere, you learn to try to workaround where your abnormalities don't fit in, otherwise you miss out.
The discussion should end at the conclusion that (those) programmers should write better code, they have written bad code and not that the victim should adapt around the bad code.
I guess are difference is that I'm seeing this as a practical issue that has a pragmatic solution, at least for me, since I care about moving on with my day, while you feel it's better to just give up and not use something if you can't use your email address for it.
The benefit for finding workarounds is that you can still use that thing you were trying to use.