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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.
It is fairly normal to have people on Fivver and Upwork tell you 'I can make the web scrapper for u' when discussing a project.
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This is what holds me back. Thanks for helping other see this.
In case you miss my longer replay to the parent post: You could try a locally self-hosted instance of https://languagetool.org/ to avoid sending all your online typing to an extra party.
In many cases, these clones only cover the UI, which is not trivial, but is just the tip of the iceberg. The real challenge in these systems is to make them work at scale. In part because their business model only works at scale. Something as simple as a "likes" counter is not trivial to do at scale.
Hate to pick on a typo, but I had to laugh. “Scrapping Reddit” is exactly how I added two hours back to my day.
I have had people getting almost violent arguingit is scrapping and not scraping. Especially from Asia and East Europe ( I have done 1000s of scraping projects over the past 20+ years, working with people all over the earth ). It is fairly normal to have people on Fivver and Upwork tell you 'I can make the web scrapper for u' when discussing a project.
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In case you miss my longer replay to the parent post: You could try a locally self-hosted instance of https://languagetool.org/ to avoid sending all your online typing to an extra party.
It’s only self hosted when you have more then 250 users :(
Not sure if it's missing any notable features of the SAAS product.
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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…
I give them the credit that they fixed it within hours, but should the project-zero team fill in for their testing team ? :-) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...
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I have had people getting almost violent arguingit is scrapping and not scraping. Especially from Asia and East Europe ( I have done 1000s of scraping projects over the past 20+ years, working with people all over the earth ). It is fairly normal to have people on Fivver and Upwork tell you 'I can make the web scrapper for u' when discussing a project.
I'm a native English speaker but I have to admit that the spelling difference is not logical. Scrapping is fine but scraping should really be "scraeping" to make it's pronunciation clearer.
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I have had people getting almost violent arguingit is scrapping and not scraping. Especially from Asia and East Europe ( I have done 1000s of scraping projects over the past 20+ years, working with people all over the earth ). It is fairly normal to have people on Fivver and Upwork tell you 'I can make the web scrapper for u' when discussing a project.
I'm a native English speaker but I have to admit that the spelling difference is not logical. Scrapping is fine but scraping should really be "scraeping" to make it's pronunciation clearer.
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.
Donations just aren't that common.
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I have had people getting almost violent arguingit is scrapping and not scraping. Especially from Asia and East Europe ( I have done 1000s of scraping projects over the past 20+ years, working with people all over the earth ). It is fairly normal to have people on Fivver and Upwork tell you 'I can make the web scrapper for u' when discussing a project.
I'm a native English speaker but I have to admit that the spelling difference is not logical. Scrapping is fine but scraping should really be "scraeping" to make it's pronunciation clearer.