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Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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post #58

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author here. lol, Grammarly didn't pick this. (En is not my native language). Thanks for informing, fixed it.

The sentence is grammatically correct and it would be wrong for a grammar checker to flag it. It just doesn't mean what you intended :)

I know AI hasn't gotten that powerful yet. That was a sarcastic comment about Grammarly :)

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

#62
post #20

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It's the title of the original post and it's factually correct. What would your edited version be?

The title is perfectly fine or at least "good enough". HN is not like Stackoverflow with its persnickety rules. This topic generated some discussion including those who feel the title is not suitable. That's a success. Ironic to me that the ones objecting to the title say they value the time wasted to "click" but then write sentences explaining why that time was wasted. So x seconds to click and figure out you don't…

> ignore it next time and move on with life?

You're making it sound as if this is about a single person clicking a single link and skimming until they find the necessary context (say, 15 seconds) to judge whether they want to continue reading, versus debating a topic in a subthread (minutes). Obviously, the actual point is that everyone needs to click many links whenever they visit HN and is continously sinking that time for as many useless titles as are being posted or as they can be bothered to click through on. (If needing to click to find out what it's about is fine, we should browse HN with only the stories' rank and no title at all.) We could instead choose to not religiously stick to applying a guideline on using the original title. After all, I would also like:

> HN [to not be] like Stackoverflow with its persnickety rules.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Hate to pick on a typo, but I had to laugh. “Scrapping Reddit” is exactly how I added two hours back to my day.

weirdly enough, most Indian devs I come across write (and say) "Scrapping" for some reason. I gave up on trying to correct them. (Obv I'm indian too)

I suffer something similar in Brazil, I've of the most famous words like this is paint, most people here day it like pint

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Someone put their time into creating it? Also perhaps because it is useful to people and if we ever hope to keep good content coming, without having to suffer through endless ads, we should support, what we deem to be good content.

> Someone put their time into creating it? That's not an intrinsically valuable act.

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Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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post #34

Hate to pick on a typo, but I had to laugh. “Scrapping Reddit” is exactly how I added two hours back to my day.

author here. lol, Grammarly didn't pick this. (En is not my native language). Thanks for informing, fixed it.

Note that Grammarly is essentially a keylogger. The content you're typing gets sent to their servers. It doesn't work like your typical client-side spellchecker.

Their business model may be OK, it's just something that you need to be aware of (and a lot of people I've talked to aren't).

From the privacy policy:

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We collect this information as you use the Site, Software, and/or Services:

- User Content. This consists of all text, documents, or other content or information uploaded, entered, or otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of the Services and/or Software. For more information about how we care for and protect your User Content, please see our User Trust Guidelines.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

#67

Wait, why is Woocommerce listed as a clone of Shopify!

There are a lot of weird "clones". I wouldn't say that Matomo is a Google Analytics clone, until recently it didn't even have an import function. I wouldn't say that Bitwarden is a LastPass clone. It's simply a different end-to-end encrypted server based password manager, there are a few of them.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

#68
post #11

40k visits and only 1 donation. Not that I complain or that I think he deserves more or less, just interesting to see the ratio.

People star these lists because it's a way of bookmarking them for later reference. If I had only 5$ to spare I'd rather donate them to one of the authors of the actual projects.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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post #66

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author here. lol, Grammarly didn't pick this. (En is not my native language). Thanks for informing, fixed it.

Note that Grammarly is essentially a keylogger. The content you're typing gets sent to their servers. It doesn't work like your typical client-side spellchecker. Their business model may be OK, it's just something that you need to be aware of (and a lot of people I've talked to aren't). From the privacy policy: --- We collect this information as you use the Site, Software, and/or Services: - User Content. This consis…

This is what holds me back. Thanks for helping other see this.
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