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Too bad it rejects non-Latin words, as if the definition of "text" is a sequence of alphabetical letters originated from Latin. I thought that we've reached th
by b-x 5y ago
Too bad it rejects non-Latin words, as if the definition of "text" is a sequence of alphabetical letters originated from Latin.
I thought that we've reached the time to embrace all cultures in the world, but this retrogressive engine proves that most modern tech designers are myopic about other civilizations in the globe.
- fghfghfghfghfgh 5y agoIt’s one guy. Making a useful tool. It even has an altruistic purpose. Shame on you for twisting a well intended effort into a negative statement that suits your narrow identity political world view.
- b-x 5y agoLess insulting error messages would be more welcome than casting out others without any consideration. You may distribute "shame" however you want, but this only helps enforcing the damaging insults and amplifying them.
- hombre_fatal 5y agoNo, it just proves that a one-man hobby project with finite resources found it reasonable to restrict the scope. Maybe when they find out they're an immortal billionaire they can build all the additional things you've entitled yourself to expect from the freely shared work of others.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoUnderstand that this is something I built for myself, by myself, so it focuses on languages I understand. It hosted on a single consumer grade computer in my living room. I built it out of pocket and anyone is free to use it. Does this make me a villain? If I can do this, what's preventing some guy in Japan or India or Peru from doing the same, of course focusing on their languages?
- b-x 5y agoMaybe a better suited choice for errors than an insulting message: when I provided a query in my native language it regurgitated the error "needs to be a word" instead of more acceptable "not a supported language". When you claim that a word in some other culture is not "a word", just because it's not recognized by your machine, that's demeaning to say the least.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoAgain it's a one man hobby project, I don't have a team of people to go through every formulation and every error message to ensure nobody can read them in a way that offends them. It's just me, writing code on an unfinished project that HN discovered. In this case, the code doesn't match the word regexp, like it may be a @TwitterHandle or a "comp.lang.c" with periods in it, or an unsupported Unicode range. It doesn't know why it is not matching, just that it doesn't.
- b-x 5y agoI must congratulate you on this achievement. That's certainly a useful take on search. Nonetheless, even when coding, one should also consider thoroughly the UX and how it would be addressing the others. Saying "unsupported word" is much more sympathetic than "needs to be a word" (where you define what a "word" is, and the general user is unaware of such definition).
- marginalia_nu 5y agoFair point, I refined the phrasing a bit. > The term "𓀀" contains characters that are not currently supported
- soheil 5y agoStop feeding the trolls, great job on this project and keep it up, hope at least most of HN is more empathetic.