Re:Wordmerge
by mayank on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @06:03PM
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Very fun, but also a prime candidate for a little casual Perl golf for the bored. I've got 463 bytes not counting the hashbang and when piped the linux shared dictionary (admittedly not the best choice of input) and a command line argument for prefix/suffix matching length.
Re:Wordmerge
by cosgroveb on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:51PM
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I think you should really think more about it. $0.99 is great and all for an app but you could be earning commissions on domain name registrations at the same time.
I'm trying out your app right now for a vexing domain name brainstorm I've been having...
Yeah this definitely seems like a great feature to add. Initially we were just enjoying the words / not thinking of it as too domain-centric, but at the very least being able to quickly whois would be nice.
I guess I should've posted it! Unlike the OP (AFAIK) it ranks the results by interestingness, where 'more interesting' means more-common words and greater overlap.
Re:Wordmerge
by Tycho on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:25PM
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Cool. The first Java program I ever wrote was actually to solve this problem (name my envisioned website/company), but your execution yields much better results.
Some nuggets:
chiropracticalities (from 'practicalities' and 'chiropractic')
welcomedians (from 'comedians' and 'welcomed')
foregonians (from 'oregonians' and 'forego')
peppercornstalk (from 'cornstalk' and 'peppercorn')
popcornerstone (from 'cornerstone' and 'popcorn')
microchipmunks (from 'chipmunks' and 'microchip')
confidentists (from 'dentists' and 'confident')
rodentine (from 'dentine' and 'rodent')
decadentistry (from 'dentistry' and 'decadent')
I'm trying out your app right now for a vexing domain name brainstorm I've been having...
Edit: I want someone to build this... I registered the domain to avoid squatters, so if you want to be the one to build it get in touch with me.
Integrating with whois would probably be a good v2.0 feature...
I guess I should've posted it! Unlike the OP (AFAIK) it ranks the results by interestingness, where 'more interesting' means more-common words and greater overlap.
All of which could be done in HTML5, but might require account creation, and people seem to love "apps" still...
"he's really into dicksploitation"