Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by sgk284 » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 3:15 AM UTC

Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
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Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by sgk284 » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 3:17 AM UTC

This is just a quick project I threw together this Saturday. It simply finds all possible words that meet the criteria you specify and ranks them according to their English frequency.

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by Gigablah » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 3:36 AM UTC

sgk284 wrote: post #2

This is just a quick project I threw together this Saturday. It simply finds all possible words that meet the criteria you specify and ranks them according to their English frequency.

I'm surprised that domain name was available :)

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by mopatches » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 3:39 AM UTC

Cool - where are you sourcing the candidate words?

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by sgk284 » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 3:47 AM UTC

mopatches wrote: post #4

Cool - where are you sourcing the candidate words?

I used the frequency lists from Wikitionary for searching an ranking. They've got the 40,000 most frequent words.

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by mgevans » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 4:05 AM UTC

sgk284 wrote: post #5

mopatches wrote: post #4

Cool - where are you sourcing the candidate words?

I used the frequency lists from Wikitionary for searching an ranking. They've got the 40,000 most frequent words.

The client downloads the current word list from this URL: http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv

I've been meaning to see if I can run a proxy and substitute my own words.

EDIT: I personally use wordplay (http://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/wordplay/...) with the -lx flags on this file when I'm stumped

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by chime » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 4:06 AM UTC

sgk284 wrote: post #2

This is just a quick project I threw together this Saturday. It simply finds all possible words that meet the criteria you specify and ranks them according to their English frequency.

Which wordlist/dictionary are you using? I use WordNet for my word finding app: http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/

FYI, the search is broken right now, probably due to HN traffic. I get the error: Internal Server Error.

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by madzito » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 4:07 AM UTC

nice.. so you put a limit on the number of letters, and shuffle the letters in all possible combinations searching your wictionary. Interesting.

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by mopatches » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 4:16 AM UTC

mgevans wrote: post #6

sgk284 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used the frequency lists from Wikitionary for searching an ranking. They've got the 40,000 most frequent words.

The client downloads the current word list from this URL: http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv I've been meaning to see if I can run a proxy and substitute my own words. EDIT: I personally use wordplay ( http://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/wordplay/... ) with the -lx flags on this file when I'm stumped

Nice! Steve - can you use this word list instead? (http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv)

Re: Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.

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Post by gautaml » Sun, Mar 25, 2012, 4:32 AM UTC

500 Server error.

That went well.