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jjice 8 hours 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.

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fbd_0100 7 hours ago | parent [-]

His name may have influenced him to make his career from ranking pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

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z500 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've always wondered what would happen if you named a kid Nominative Determinism. Some kind of paradox?

	▲	arcticfox 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> name change at 18 probably That's so cool because it's true, and holds very strongly with the semantic concept
	▲	order-matters 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		name change at 18 probably
	▲	sheriff 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		He'd probably grow up to be the guy who goes around making people do things that sound like their names.
	▲	CPLX 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		He would be promptly murdered by someone named Alexander the Great.

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devonkim 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It'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 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He could also have worked for Motorola.