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What do you want from it beyond this?
Obviously local dictionary support, I'd prefer to retain the privacy of the words I use and look up.
Unfortunately, though, its a bit complex to even try to use the local dictionary: https://github.com/Rican7/define/issues/1
It looks great!, would you accept PRa for adding other languages than English ?
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Obviously local dictionary support, I'd prefer to retain the privacy of the words I use and look up.
which dictionary datasource do you suggest? The OED costs money, and i'm not sure i've heard anything either way about the quality of 'free' versions, though there is the 1913 Websters...
Browsing through the source, this strikes me as very over-engineered to just hit a few APIs, parse the responses and print text to the command line.
Browsing through the source, this strikes me as very over-engineered to just hit a few APIs, parse the responses and print text to the command line.
Ha, that's such a classic HN comment. I appreciate you taking the time to look at the source. I used this, like I do most of my side projects, as an opportunity to learn a few things. I wanted a generic abstraction so that multiple sources could be used. Originally I didn't want or think of the need to support multiple sources, but it quickly became apparent how necessary that was when looking at the quality of free…
Browsing through the source, this strikes me as very over-engineered to just hit a few APIs, parse the responses and print text to the command line.
Ha, that's such a classic HN comment. I appreciate you taking the time to look at the source. I used this, like I do most of my side projects, as an opportunity to learn a few things. I wanted a generic abstraction so that multiple sources could be used. Originally I didn't want or think of the need to support multiple sources, but it quickly became apparent how necessary that was when looking at the quality of free…
I like your thinking :) https://github.com/patrickmn/define
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Ha, that's such a classic HN comment. I appreciate you taking the time to look at the source. I used this, like I do most of my side projects, as an opportunity to learn a few things. I wanted a generic abstraction so that multiple sources could be used. Originally I didn't want or think of the need to support multiple sources, but it quickly became apparent how necessary that was when looking at the quality of free…
I actually thought the PanicWriter was very clever. It's a clean solution to a very commonly ignored error return value - operations on stdout/stderr.
It's very pretty, but unfortunately it looks like just a wrapper for a few dictionary HTTP APIs. It won't be replacing Dictionary.app, but it does look like a a good subject for learning Go.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dictd#Hosting_Offline_D...