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> Unimportantly, it's named after Larry Page, not after the fact that it ranks pages. I've always taken it as a happy double play since it is named after Page,
by jjice 1mo ago
> Unimportantly, it's named after Larry Page, not after the fact that it ranks pages.
I've always taken it as a happy double play since it is named after Page, but also ranks pages.
- fbd_0100 1mo agoHis name may have influenced him to make his career from ranking pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- z500 1mo agoI've always wondered what would happen if you named a kid Nominative Determinism. Some kind of paradox?
- order-matters 1mo agoname change at 18 probably
- CPLX 1mo agoHe would be promptly murdered by someone named Alexander the Great.
- arcticfox 1mo ago> name change at 18 probably That's so cool because it's true, and holds very strongly with the semantic concept
- sheriff 1mo agoHe'd probably grow up to be the guy who goes around making people do things that sound like their names.
- devonkim 1mo agoIt's not like he was going to be a Congressional staffer nor working at a newspaper. But if he was on-call for a lot of his career that'd be kind of amusing
- HPsquared 1mo agoHe could also have worked for Motorola.