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Re: Fake Name Generator

#81
First was a female dietitian, 5'7" and pushing 200lbs. Sounds like a great dietitian.

Next one had a hometown right down the road from me. Cool. She's 53 years old but her SSN starts with 180. PA's SSN range is 159 to 211, and everyone else my age has SSNs starting with 178. SSNs are assigned in-order. See the problem? Her SSN ought to be in the 160s I reckon.

Next was a 70-y/o timber and logging worker. I don't believe it.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.

Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.

The first thing I noticed was that the vehicle field doesn't seem to be sensitive to the products available domestically for the person's address. And for bonus points, it could even consider demographics of the address versus price of the car (I got a Bentley while living in the middle of nowhere in the rust belt, which seems a bit suspicious).

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Or create a Fink/MacPorts port.

Is there a reason to use either of those systems over homebrew? Since homebrew seems to have a lot more community support now.

I used all three at one point in time. What I love about homebrew is that the tedious work of maintaining a sane package repository is distributed over many shoulders (3429 at the moment) - and those who contribute most of the time do really care about the packages they are watching over.

I haven't found an easy way to add/update packages to finc or macports, but I could contribute to homebrew within 5 minutes.

I wish we would see more work distribution patterns like this in fields outside code/programming.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Very useful resource! I'm curious though, where did you get your Hispanic names from? Seems like they come from a database of funny, weird and probably offensive names. No one is called like that in Spanish-speaking countries, and yes, I know the names are supposed to be fake, but just comparing the Hispanic with the American ones, you can tell there's a big difference. Whether or not is intentional, it could be even…

Same for Polish.

Most of names sound Polish, but I never ever heard of anyone called that name.

Also lastnames seem to be missing Polish characters sometimes

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Or create a Fink/MacPorts port.

Is there a reason to use either of those systems over homebrew? Since homebrew seems to have a lot more community support now.

Once you start piling up some dependencies (vs. self-constained apps), I found homebrew more of a mess, while MacPorts more or less worked as I'd expect. The thing that drove me off Homebrew was dependency-hell with different versions of Python packages, while MacPorts pulled in the right versions of all the dependencies (it can even handle needing multiple versions of NLTK/SciPy/etc. installed in parallel, if different ports depend on them). This is perhaps the flipside of the reason many people prefer Homebrew: it tends to build against the base OSX stuff, while MacPorts tends to pull in its own parallel world of dependencies. IME the latter works more reliably, though it takes up more diskspace.

But, Debian's package management works better than either of them, so I've sort of been moving towards doing any kind of unixy work in a VM and treating OSX as just a desktop.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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post #56
post #6

Very useful resource! I'm curious though, where did you get your Hispanic names from? Seems like they come from a database of funny, weird and probably offensive names. No one is called like that in Spanish-speaking countries, and yes, I know the names are supposed to be fake, but just comparing the Hispanic with the American ones, you can tell there's a big difference. Whether or not is intentional, it could be even…

Curious what you find this useful for? Filling out online forms instead making stuff up off the top of your head?

If you are curious, you should always look at the FAQ first :). http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/faq.php . Look at the section: "What can I use the Fake Name Generator identities for?"

Re: Fake Name Generator

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post #18

I just generated an icelandic hobbit and it GAVE ME MY OWN NAME! I actually WTFed out loud.

One of the "hobbit" names it gave me was "Haiduc". I don't think there were ever many hobbits engaged in highway banditry in the Balkans.

Re: Fake Name Generator

#90
Why are social security numbers generated? That seems necessary for supporting only dubious kinds of behavior.

Aren't SSNs only useful for banking/credit-type services? (Perhaps someone can enlighten me.)

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