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It attempts to solve a naming problem using a dataset and algorithms, failing miserably.

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."




"using a dataset and algorithms" is a lot of fancy words for ctrl+f

At least, I have no indication that it does more than just find which items in list A also occur in list B. This text on the results page also hints at that: "All of the suggested [language_A]-[language_B] names on this page are matched solely on their written form"


The key is to use descriptive names. Iā€™m naming my child conceived_january_22_on_a_snowy_day_after_too_much_wine.




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