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The term for this is 'aptronym'. Famous examples include former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and former MLB pitcher Jack Armstrong. Added in the ju

• mattmanser 14y ago
  Seriously? Let's not over-sell the guy here, he does enough of that himself. His last post was the 'hello, I know nothing at all about the real world' post. Also, look who didn't actually write wheremyfriends.be but is taking the credit for it? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2245016 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2245016 Yes, Mr. Dan 'I didn't actually ship it' Shipper.
  • ajaymehta 14y ago
    Hey, no need for the vitriol. Dan, Wesley and I all did wheremyfriends.be -- Wesley was the submitter of the post you linked to, and mentioned both of us in the product description. We worked together on a bunch of apps and over the summer, and Dan returned to school and continued to work on Airtime while Wesley and I just graduated from the latest YC class. As far as I know, Dan has never misrepresented his work and has extremely high integrity and character.
    • quintendf 14y ago
      I'll add to what Ajay said here- Anyone who has actually dealt with Dan in person knows that he is a humble, quiet guy who would never seek to misrepresent his work in any way. I first met Dan shortly after the launch of wheremyfriends.be, and he was effusive in his praise of the work both Wesley and Ajay had done as they collaborated on the project.
• zem 14y ago
  the most famous example is probably "wordsworth" (in the pre-internet days, if you mentioned aptronyms or nominative determinism, the standard question was "yeah, but other than wordsworth who is there?")