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Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 12 August 2016 at 11:38, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we'd be remiss if we let this thread wind down without sharing > this ancient gem: > > - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods- > programmers-believe-about-names/ > > (having spent some time living and working around people with "difficult" > names I sympathise, one of my former clients had tens of thousands of > profiles from people world wide, and I worked extensively on trying to make > search work the way people from those backgrounds expect, in terms of being > found, and finding people they search for (e.g how does a Chinese person > who might be called 李 丽 expect to be found by a fellow Chinese, or by a > German searching from Portugal), fun fun fun!) > > Lee Hambley > http://lee.hambley.name/ > +49 (0) 170 298 5667 > > On 11 August 2016 at 18:30, Ian Moss <he...@ianmoss.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks for the responses. There's been some interesting ideas & debate. >> Handy when you're working solo :/ >> >> * I've added in a ticket about allowing MEPs to update their own names: >> https://github.com/alterisian/mep_contact/issues/7 >> (Though probably not enough volunteers to do it! Yet!) >> >> * The source of the data is a groovy (I know, swearing ;) scraper which >> gets the information directly from the EU Commission's official web >> page. We found no other source. It has all the surnames in uppercase - >> actually rather awesome in it's self-containment: >> https://github.com/timyates/mep-emails >> (I originally found a script in R, which was fun to play with, but not >> playing ball) >> >> * When I posted I was thinking if no-one has a better idea, I'll just >> keep it with uppercase. Though we're trying to motivate people to side >> with us, so addressing them in this manner may not win them over as well >> as addressing people how you would expect/typically. >> >> * Will definitely be exceptions, but I will try the latest ruby preview, >> and clean the data with Matt's info, before reverting to my current >> version for a deploy on heroku. The list of exceptions is amazing. >> Thanks for that, Chris. >> >> Cheers to Francis, Matt, Sean, Will, Chris and anyone else who checked >> out https://www.facebook.com/UkToMEPsConnect/ >> >> Ian. >> >> >> -- >> Ian Moss >> CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? >> https://calendly.com/oceanician >> http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // >> 07790450877 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send an email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
