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The author has a massive problem with people from HN stealing his work without attribution. It's very much in his interest to have a crappy first draft hit the
by DarthGhandi 6y ago
The author has a massive problem with people from HN stealing his work without attribution.
It's very much in his interest to have a crappy first draft hit the front page here and fix it up after that.
- celticninja 6y agoAny examples of his work being stolen and HN being the cause?
- pfdietz 6y agoI want to know how first posting all the typos protects against plagiarism.
- celticninja 6y agoCertainly easier to identify plagiarism, although with something so specific it's probably not hard to detect anyway.
- DarthGhandi 6y agoIt doesn't at all of course, but it clearly makes the quality of plagiarised work worse, if you perhaps look into it more you'll see these sites and how they operate. The author has mentioned this before publicly and specifically noted it was due to HN exposure. Absolutely hilariously how people found my original comment so offensive as to gray it out, was simply repeating something anyone can find in 3 seconds on Google.
- DarthGhandi 6y agoWell you can search his name and "Hacker News" on Twitter. Here's an example: https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1307080975151697921 https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1307080975151697921 Probably the best way to view is searching the headline though, it's some brazen content thievery, some even copy comments like our own in there. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Collections%3A+Iron%2C+How+Did+They+Make+It%2C+Part+III%3A+Hammer-time https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Collections%3A+Iron%2C+How+Did+The...