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In my home state (in India), people don't always have an official last name. Some people just have an initial that's their dad's first name. So when I moved to the US, I inherited a lastname - which I never had previously - since here you do need a last name. Always felt odd to have as lastname my dad's first name. So, I decided to change it.
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Nish Nishant wrote: Always felt odd to have as lastname my dad's first name.
And having a last name that is the same as your first name is less odd? 
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P0mpey3 wrote: And having a last name that is the same as your first name is less odd?
Yeah, because I always went by Nish. Nishant was only used by maybe my school teachers.
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People (me included at the time) who haven't had to deal with it don't realise how differently other cultures handle names. When I got married I basically had to imply my father's illegitimacy as they wouldn't accept the fact I've only got one middle name and luckily, it was my father's name. In most of the Middle East they name patronymically so, even for girls:
forename, fathers name, grandfathers name, family name.
Even on official documents they wouldn't accept my "incomplete" naming (and you couldn't explain that the west had a different system) so I basically had to sigh and say my dad didn't know who his father was. Then the "embarrassing" situation was handled with tact. If I'd allowed them to enter my grandfather's name, it wouldn't have matched my official documents and this would have been a problem too.
tl;dr: had to imply my own father's bastardy in order to get married.
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In my home state, people typically used this format for legal documents : abc son of xyz son of pqr. That way the father and often grand father was included outside of the name.
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Last names are not so old here, at least for most people. In northern Europe it was common to distinguish two people by adding the father's name + 'son'. Later those additions may have become fixed last names, no matter what the father's name really was.
My ancestor did not show much imagination when he had to choose a last name. He simply took his profession, similar to all the Misters Baker, Shoemaker, Miller, Smith, Cook or whatever alse. And on some the writers who wrote down the names the people chose played a little prank and wrote something totally different. I really don't think that Mr Kaiser's ancestor really was an emperor or Mr. Papst's ancestor was the Pope (who should not even get married!).
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Hmmm. Interesting. I've got a copy of my family tree that dates back as far as an individual that died in 1501. Though my family name (Beeching) is traced in the same document back as far as someone that was born before 12 May 1661.
Not bad eh? 354 years of traceable family name and over 515 of ancestry. Jeez I love the web!
That said, apparently my name was taken from that of the Beech tree - not terribly inventive either, given that the name historically was used by those that lived amongst these trees or by the sides of rivers. :grin:
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Does that mean you'll republish your book(s) with the revised name?
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Heh - unlikely 
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What about your return type?
Is it still
void ?
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Heh - yeah, that's forever 
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Consider changing it to
var
varnish
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*groan* 
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Who ARE you? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I am the same guy, only with a cooler name now
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Ah, sorry Dalek Dave, I didn't recognize you with the new name. Yes, the new one IS much cooler, I agree... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Dear lord! 
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mmm change the name, you trying to avoid the blame for something? checked in a bunch of bad code?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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OK, but I like "BusterBoy" better.
Brings back memories of when I was an MFC guru and VC++ 6.0 was king. And my life wasn't agile. And "business process re-engineering" was big. And people took pride in eating GMO foods. And Radio Shack sold resistors and capacitors.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: and VC++ 6.0 was king
Ah, the good old days!
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It's no good, Clarkson, you can't hide just by changing your name.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hello new person whose name I've never seen before.
Welcome to CodeProject
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Thank you, you guys are nice! 
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