Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
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Re: Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
#2How is this on the front page of HN? Is this something special that you have a list of names?!
Re: Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
#3Nice list, for just names it's a great resource. I see some umlauts, spaces in names, punctuation in names, and it's clearly splittable for first/last name fields. I'm not sure what other ground could be covered that someone would need to account for.
I'm not "book" cultured, so a lot of names I don't recognize, but nice shout outs to 30 Rock and Anchorman :p
Github complains that it's not a properly formatted CSV file. Maybe consider a TSV? It'd probably still complain.
I've yet to use it, but it's been in my back pocket for when I need it. This PHP package looks nice if you need more than just names: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
Re: Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
#4Does that worth to be shared in this community? has that ever been a problem worth mention to someone? I am only aware to problems related to those names when a living person feels they are using their name/image in a defamatory or unauthorized way but I think anyone can find by herself a fiction or historical name for that task (or generics such as John Smith/Max Mustermann)
Re: Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
#5Nice! May I ask if you collected those manually? Perhaps they should be sorted/divided according to the genre they're from? Books/Movies/Tv-shows, etc?
This list made be realize a sort-of annoying (sometimes) tendency I seem to have developed. It appears that my first reaction to cool things is now not wonder but 'I need to engineer the shit out of fit'.My first thought after looking at the list was not 'wow, cool', but more of 'so if I use Named Entity Recognition, and a large corpus, I could have tens of thousands of such names in hours. Maybe I can catch up on computational linguistics literature on the issue, and even identify the relative importance of characters on the text. Should be a day-long project'. Need to learn to enjoy things for what they are, sigh.
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#6Love the beginning :P
Re: Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
#7Does that worth to be shared in this community? has that ever been a problem worth mention to someone? I am only aware to problems related to those names when a living person feels they are using their name/image in a defamatory or unauthorized way but I think anyone can find by herself a fiction or historical name for that task (or generics such as John Smith/Max Mustermann)
> Does that worth to be shared in this community?
Since it has been starred and forked on Github I think the answer is yes.
> has that ever been a problem worth mention to someone?
It has been to me. When I work I want to write lines and not think what name I use when testing. I have a simple script that creates a link to my applications so that the registration forms get pre-filled.
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#8Love the beginning :P
I edited the order of names before creating the repo on Github, to be honest. :-)
Re: Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
#9Nice! May I ask if you collected those manually? Perhaps they should be sorted/divided according to the genre they're from? Books/Movies/Tv-shows, etc? This list made be realize a sort-of annoying (sometimes) tendency I seem to have developed. It appears that my first reaction to cool things is now not wonder but 'I need to engineer the shit out of fit'.My first thought after looking at the list was not 'wow, cool',…
> May I ask if you collected those manually?
Yes, whenever I read a book or watched a movie I've added some of the characters to the list.
> It appears that my first reaction to cool things is now not wonder but 'I need to engineer the shit out of fit'.
Imagination and creativity. Nothing wrong with that. And nobody can blame you if you haven't the time to realize the idea.
Re: Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
#10Nice list, for just names it's a great resource. I see some umlauts, spaces in names, punctuation in names, and it's clearly splittable for first/last name fields. I'm not sure what other ground could be covered that someone would need to account for. I'm not "book" cultured, so a lot of names I don't recognize, but nice shout outs to 30 Rock and Anchorman :p Github complains that it's not a properly formatted CSV fi…
> it's clearly splittable for first/last name fields.
Yes, I need that for a simple script that generates email addresses and links.