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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by notdang »

dagw wrote: post #75
blntechie wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Iceland, I believe one can’t give the baby a last name not following the -son or -dottir format even if the parents are not Icelandic I believe. Atleast it was the case until few years back. Not sure it changed recently or they need to go through an approval process.

Apparently the workaround has been to 'move' to Denmark for a couple of days, have your child named and registered in your new home country, and then move back to Iceland.

how can you move to a different country with a newborn child without having any papers for that child?

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by hamaluik »

Fiahil wrote: post #86

Your app is fucking amazing. Would it be possible to filter names by regions or language as well as decades ?

Thanks!

I really wanted that in the app (and more filters besides), but the data source was the US Social Security administration (the easiest to access list of names I could find) [1], and it really only includes the number of people with a given name and sex for each year. To include the region / language would be a lot of data processing work that I sadly don't have time for.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by hiccuphippo »

hamaluik wrote: post #13
seszett wrote: post #10

Despite the French name for the app, this seems to only use English names.

US-census names actually. As for the name of the app.. well names are hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe someone should do an app-name app.

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #78
hamaluik wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ultimately because I wanted an app. * I make enough web-based things for my job, and I enjoy developing in Flutter / Dart (what this was built in). * I’m never realistically going to be looking through names on a desktop; I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line or something where I can pull out my phone, decide on a few names, and then go back to what I was doing. I could build it as an offline web-ap…

> I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line You could track whether specific locations, or time of day/week, result in liking certain types of names. Version 2.

It's a baby name generator, there's no need to track everything!

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by z2 »

gbronner wrote: post #29

I did something like this with jupyter and the census records. I added filters for min and max popularity, gender ratio, scrabble score, number of syllables, length, etc.

I did almost the exact same thing (minus scrabble score!), and am convinced there's at least a few interesting blog posts or even research papers left that can come from these records.

Maybe because it was all too contrived, it fell by the wayside when my wife came across something she really liked in a poem, and we basically used the closest name that embodied the phrase.

For the next child I'll probably just try asking a transformer model.

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by Drew_ »

dymk wrote: post #89
Drew_ wrote: post #84

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You could do everything but collaboration using a static site and localStorage though Apple's support of localStorage is iffy now.

You just gave two reasons why it wouldn’t work as a static site

That is indeed what I said

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by wohfab »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #78
hamaluik wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ultimately because I wanted an app. * I make enough web-based things for my job, and I enjoy developing in Flutter / Dart (what this was built in). * I’m never realistically going to be looking through names on a desktop; I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line or something where I can pull out my phone, decide on a few names, and then go back to what I was doing. I could build it as an offline web-ap…

> I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line You could track whether specific locations, or time of day/week, result in liking certain types of names. Version 2.

They could also stand with their decision, to stick it to all the user apps, that track you to oblivion ;)
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