The Guardian's Typerighter
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The Guardian's Typerighter
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#2Next they just need to add a spellchecker.
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#3The Grauniad finally building electronic counter-measures. Great newspaper regardless.
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#4Next they just need to add a spellchecker.
> Next they just need to add a spellchecker.
The Guardian is known as the Grauniad for good reason.
Even to this day, their paper remains riddled with basic spelling errors.
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#5One day private eye might even buy a computer!
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#6I worked at a company that had a style guide we were supposed to abide by for all the blog posts, social media posts, and knowledge base content--but then the person in charge of it would arbitrarily change his mind about something and require us to go back through 250 articles and lowercase a word. He wouldn't tell us this was happening. He would just start using the term the way he wanted until someone pointed it out, then insist the whole knowledge base be redone to accommodate him.
At least with this he would have had to make a pull request to update the guide where we all could see it!
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#7Next they just need to add a spellchecker.
> Next they just need to add a spellchecker. The Guardian is known as the Grauniad for good reason. Even to this day, their paper remains riddled with basic spelling errors.
I read the Guardian pretty often and I don't really see "basic spelling errors" in articles very often.
I've only seen obvious errors in live coverage (the feeds that get updated in real time). It's more understandable there because it's often somebody in the field writing about something as it happens.
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#8This is a bit tangential, but I think there are ways to increase the value of this project. And please, don't take this the wrong way. I'm trying to make a constructive suggestion (to the maintainers).
Why not present it as a library with a sensible API and a directory of example uses. Including an example of a single binary, minimalistic server that has a very simple, minimal interface allowing you to submit documents and review the results? Or even a command line utility that takes a document as input and spits out the result on stdout or a file?
Imagine how much more immediate the experience would be if you can just fetch a binary and run it on the command line. Or how much easier it would be for people who might want to make use of this in, say, a blogging platform, if you could show them a 10-20 line example of how to make use of this as a library in your own code.
If you provide people with a smooth path for bot adoption and extension, the chance of people engaging positively increases. When I'm presented with this project the core problem this solves gets lost in all the pomp and circumstance involved in running it.
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#9Thanks Guardian, for making this open source! I really would love to see rules as well. Open source would be best, but if this is not possible even a proprietary snapshot would be super interesting to see.
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#10Ironic. I was reading their opinion article by the Ukrainian ex-defense minister just this morning, and caught a very basic spelling mistake any spell checker would have found.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/ukrain...
It's still there. "morehas".
Classic Grauniad. Let's see if any Guardian editor reads HN.