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Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

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Re: Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

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Post by ggruschow »

staunch wrote: post #8

Congratulations. Time to reset 'gg' and set the account aside: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gg

He should use a different name until he's old enough to understand what posting on the net means. Besides, gg is taken quickly on practically every site that it's allowed on. It's been that way since around 2000. The most annoying part is they're not all me anymore.

The good news is that he has a whole TLD that's still pretty open http://nic.gg

The bad news is there's a generation of people that often think of G.G. Allin when they hear "GG".

Re: Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

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Post by ivankirigin »

Eliezer wrote: post #13

Well, it's too late now, but if there are any other parents out there, for God's sake give your kid a globally unique name. It's all one big namespace now. There are other Eliezer Yudkowskys out there, the poor bastards, and they'll spend the rest of their lives under my ugly Google shadow.

I was thinking "Graham Livingston" would be an awesome name.

Re: Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George

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Post by nostrademons »

Eliezer wrote: post #30
prakash wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YC startups can point to whichever website PG + JL register. That kind of google karma will easily put George as the #1 George on any of the search engines. Now, if the YC companies are really creative, George will be the 1st result returned even if someone types in "Eliezer Yudkowsky" ;-)

Good solution, I suppose. At least the first part. To be fair, I'll be first in line to congratulate PGJL on having not named their kid Jeeebo Graham just because the domain name was available. But I do advise prospective parents to think hard about what the child might think of the name when grown up. Sure, in one sense it would have been awesome, but I'm glad my mother didn't let my father actually name me Luke Sky…

I know a family that named their kids Luke, Leia, and Jedi. It actually works out fairly well, because Luke and Leia were reasonably common names in my generation (though Leia is usually spelled Leah), and Jedi just goes by Jed.
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