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On the "fake name" thing:

I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.

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Hopefully there aren't too many people with the name "First Last" running around.

It was tricky to use too literal names, as they're basically the placeholders in the input forms for instance, or the translations keys.

To defend a bit the choice for somewhat realistic names, there is a gestalt decomposition where you're looking through "First name" first names for hundreds of lines. Same for Lorum ipsums, designers' reaction are completely different when the page looks somewhat realistic and isn't just a blatant test.

Lol, it's Tim Cook, Mr. President.

Tim Apple is an awesome mnemonic

It was kinda funny from across the pond, the first time around. Putin horse riding topless was also a funny meme.

Looking back at that period is depressing af.

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