andrewducker | Your opinions, give them to me

The quality of beards does rather depend on the qualities of the wearer.

But there does seem to be a societal presumption against them at the moment, so I'm voting GOOD, in order to even things up.

I have said a couple of times that as there are a relatively small number of people in this world capable of growing facial hair, and as facial hair is so awesome, it is the moral imperative for everyone capable of growing it, to do so. That way I'm surrounded by as much awesome and varied facial foliage as possible.

And of course, the world is all about me.

The name thing: depends on the form of wrong. If they use my slightly less preferred variant of my first name, no harm no foul; if they call me something that's definitely not my name, I'll correct them.

I agree with the variation. I used to work wiht someone who occassionally called me Cassie, because of my surname (plus she was old) so I didn't really mind.

Otherwise, my SEWIWEIC is that I'd probably quite quickly find a reason to send them an email and maybe subtly make them realise.

Or, you know, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4_NiCIdcw

Lizzie (just so's you know) xx

Beards: Depends on the beard and the face it's attached to. Neck beards are almost always bad, and beard with no mustache are generally inadvisable. :)

Regex: Not sure, as I've never actually worked with them and am not 100% clear on what they are and what they're used for. :)

Jeffrey Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions is a must-read if you're working with them. You could try the valid email address matcher at the end with the GUI programme ;-)

LOL. Email address validation. Really pretty hard once you actually get into it (as I did have to once).

Not as hard as HTML:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

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I said editing regexes is crazy, but only because I find them so unreadable that I would prefer to get the plain English translation of what it's meant to do and then rewrite the damn thing from scratch.

Beards: good but I find them too scratchy on myself. I also start to find I want to wash my face after every meal.

Name correction: depends on the place and my current mood. Sometimes I ignore and feel annoyed. Sometimes I correct. When the same person gets it wrong several times I start to give up and consider them to be a cretin. This is especially true when they spell it wrong in emails, which are *replies to my emails which have my name in*.

I find that goatee like beards occasionally look good, but other than that - no!

Not completely true cos I do vaguely know what a regular expression is (mostly because Rob owns this shirt and periodically has to explain it to people. But I wouldn't know how to edit one.

When it comes to the "beards" question are we talking about facial hair or people like Katie Holmes/Jada Pinkit Smith/Kelly Preston?

I think most people have gone for the face fur.

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Beards. neat ones only pleeeeeze!

Some beards are good. For example, Sean Connery.

Most beards are bad. For example, almost every single student/nerd who has ever grown one especially neckbeards or wild unkempt ones) Or did you mean that kind of beard that I might be in a relationship with? I like those.

I don't know what a regular expression is.

If someone got my name wrong, I would deliberately get theirs wrong. This happens a lot with emails at work - one of the companies we email all format their email addresses as surname dot firstname, but ours are the reverse. Even when a colleague of mine has a first name that is an actual name and a weird surname, this company has a tendency to use the person's surname as if it's a first name. So we just do the same when we reply :-D They've never yet called us out on it (probably because they think we're being dicks)

I liked my beard, but it got too itchy so I now have some stubble - mostly because properly shaving seems an utterly shit plan.

Having just got the hang of Visual Basic [ugh] and C++ [YAY!!], I'm not quite brave enough to look into what reg ex's are yet.

I often tell people my name is Tim, purely so I can say "There are some who call me.... Tim". In general I'm happy to play along if someone gets my name wrong. I went by a nickname for so long it barely matters.

I have a rare name, but confusingly my manager's name is only one letter different. I correct people if they call me by my manager's name, but otherwise don't care.

I used to default to beards = BAD but the Boy grew one and it's very flattering indeed so I find I have now mellowed to them a lot and started finding them attractive on other people too. They have to be proper neat, shaped beards though, none of this scruffy, straggly and unkempt, I-just-can't-be-arsed-shaving nonsense.

I am crap at names and would therefore correct the person because I'd be mortified if I got someone's name wrong and they went off in a huff rather than correcting me.

I have a few hundred-character regexps hanging around. I don't have much problem figuring out what they're doing by looking at them.

When someone gets my name wrong, I generally don't do or say anything about it. My dentist has been calling me by my technically correct first name that nobody ever calls me for over 10 years, because I never corrected him. The catering manager at work often calls me Mark, although she sometimes does get my name right too, so correcting her wouldn't have much point. I just treat it as a quirk of interacting with someone, like if they have an unusual accent or something.

people often pronounce my name wrong. if I'm interacting with them regularly then I correct them every time.