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Post by hamaluik »

remram wrote: post #187
hamaluik wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats! Elo rating is a good idea for sorting.. I just implemented an insertion sort to help rank names which works but also feels a bit awkward.

Your sort has a way higher complexity than required, in terms of comparisons. It will present the user with way more pairs than the optimal system would, which will make it very hard to sort through a longer list. You might want to use a merge insertion sort instead. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/53979250/711380 Of course this only works if you assume the order is total, which is actually a good assumption unless m…

Hmm, that is a good idea; thanks. I don't have a CS degree so this is one of those areas where I don't know what I don't know.

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Post by hirenj »

Back when I had to choose names for our kids, I needed to find names that were pronounceable in both Danish and Gujarati. Solving this involved taking names lists from both languages, and getting the phonemes for each name (based upon the language pronunciation). Following that it was a simple matter of finding the names with the shortest edit distances, so we could shortlist names that were familiar enough in each language.

My wife ended up picking names off the top of her head that entirely coincidentally were part of the shortlist.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

seanc wrote: post #107
lawlorino wrote: post #44

I would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to have to pick names that sound good in both languages. For this particular combination girl names aren't too rare but there's very few boy names that come to mind.

Believe it or not a good source of those is the Bible. Every language knows what do with them, either pronounce natively or a direct analogue; Ivan/John and so on.

This depends on your concept of how names work. Some people (often dependent on native language of those people) think names should be translated, but to me they're more like a token than other words.

If your name is Xinyi, your name in English is Xinyi, some people would disagree and say your name in English is Joy; whilst xinyi means joy (IIRC) that's not how names [should] work [IMO].

This might relate in part to how we use a lot of foreign language words for names in UK English. Like how Charis (biblical Greek) is a different name to Grace (modern English) but d both derive from the same meaning.

YMMV.

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Post by robotresearcher »

hamaluik wrote: post #34
disintegore wrote: post #26

I've always loved the term "baby name". Makes it seem like you grow out of it eventually and have to switch to an adult name like "Roger" or "Raymond".

Haha, I love it! Our first kid was code-named “baby thunder” before being born (we delayed telling some friends so we wouldn’t steal their “baby thunder”). The name stuck around for a couple months after she was born before we trailed off using it, so it really was her “baby name” :p

We did a similar thing. Early on, our toddler proposed the name Bin-ban for his upcoming sister, and it stuck.

We have a lovely video of the toddler explaining to Grannie a few hours after the birth 'her name is Bin-ban'. 'Oh , yes, but she has a real name'.

We called her Bin-ban for a few more weeks until she sort of grew into her 'real' name. That beautiful little original name is a very fond memory for us.

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Post by hamaluik »

cortesoft wrote: post #162

Haha, I guess this is what every programmer does when they have a kid. I wrote an ELO ranking program when I had my first kid: https://github.com/cortesoft/BabyNamer Give it a list of names, it presents pairs of names to voters who choose which they prefer of the two. Allows many people to work together to narrow down a name choice. I took the site down after a while because I didn't want to keep paying for it after…

Awesome. I sincerely wish I found this before I decided to write my own, we definitely would have used it!

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Post by hamaluik »

Argher wrote: post #172
hamaluik wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can filter names by first letter, sex, and decade of popularity, as well as limit to the most popular N names in that list. No, only like / dislike. This was intentional for me, another app we tried had a "maybe" list that just filled up with names that I would never realistically go for. No easy way to show variants of spelling. Not something I needed, but I could definitely see that being helpful for others, an…

Love the app, seems nicely functional - as feedback/bug report?, it doesn't look like the "Sex" filter works, at least not for the "Explore" mode.

Yea I purposefully made the explore mode keep al the names. Next release I’ll make sure to add a toggle on whether to apply the filters or not because in hindsight this is confusing.

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Post by swilliamsio »

aspaviento wrote: post #171
regus wrote: post #135

We recently had our first child and finding a name for him was extremely difficult. We tried using books and apps but they weren't that helpful. Part of the problem was that we wanted a name that would work in both english and spanish, and wasn't too popular or trendy. I found that I hated most boy names, especially the ones that are trendy today (Aiden, Jaiden, Zaiden). Feel free to name your kids whatever you want,…

> 3. If you are going to give them a middle name... Just don't do it. Nobody is going to use it and it will mess up when you have to fill forms.

As someone with a middle name, it has never caused me any problem when filling out forms and the like.

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Post by ivolimmen »

My baby naming days are long in my past. I have two daughters of 14 and 12. Their names where a real challenge. My wife and I lost our first child. It would have been a boy. We had chosen for the name Roan. We where of course devastated. A part of me was also very sad for loosing the name. If the second would also be a boy we could no longer give it this beautiful name. We knew the second would become a girl and we wanted to include the name Roan in it. After really long puzzling we came to the name: Norah. It contains all letters or Roan and an added H. Something for her specifically. When we had our third we wanted to do this again. Norah was already at the daycare by then and played a lot with a child called Roos. Somehow we liked the combination but it did not contain all the letters or Roan. After some thinking we settled on Rosanne and we call her Roos (that's Rose in English). So her name does contain all the letters of Roan and extra.

I like the idea but I am unable to have any more kids

Congrats one your pregnancy and I wish you the best of luck.

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