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These are all in good fun so it's kinda whatever, but I'm surprised OP didn't bother to mention the source even in the blog post https://pankajtanwar.substack.c

These are all in good fun so it's kinda whatever, but I'm surprised OP didn't bother to mention the source even in the blog post https://pankajtanwar.substack.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-to-browse https://pankajtanwar.substack.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-t...

pvtmert 5y ago
suprisingly, I have met some guy at the bar last Saturday, he quoted: "Good designers copy, best designers steal" I don' know the source though. But this immediately strike me as soon as I see your comment. :)
- herbturbo 5y ago
  Steve Jobs said that Picasso said "Good artists copy, great artists steal" so your guy at the bar must be a good designer.
samhw 5y ago
Hmm, it's pretty crap not to mention where the overwhelming majority of the code was clearly taken from – given they wrote a diary documenting how 'they' built this project, and then posted it on HN. And it's not 'inspired by' the other project. Lots of the HTML seems to have been copied verbatim into a React project, with very specific long CSS strings from the original site. Hilariously, even the tiny 'Inspired by' section at the end is itself stolen from the original site, which credits another site as inspiration (that site is genuinely different, emulating MS Word rather than VS Code). It was very courteous of u/pieterhg to respond the way he did, put it that way. ("Even still says index.php!")
karimf 5y ago
There's a line on the website if you scroll down all the way to the bottom: > Inspiriation and some of the images from this HN post. Which points to the Show HN by RemoteOK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472170 Not sure whether it's enough to show attribution.
- kensai 5y ago
  It is enough. He gives attribution.
  - this_was_posted 5y ago
    Legally, probably. According to proper etiquette, far from it.
  - tyingq 5y ago
    "Inspiration" though? It's loading the exact same images, in the exact same order, long passages of verbatim css, etc. It's fairly weak attribution there, and no nod in the blog post. It's "enough" from a copyright standpoint, but it's lame.
    - samhw 5y ago
      And, like I wrote above, literally the 'Inspired by' section itself was stolen from the original website. I'm sorry for repeating myself, but I'm in awe of how brazen this guy is.
- piyush_soni 5y ago
  It's not enough. And "Inspired by" is deliberately hidden below a long trail of text, and that itself is a lie. It's not "inspired by". It's "almost lifted from".
the2ndfloorguy 5y ago
OP here, thanks for your comment. I have given the complete credit & link to the original source for inspiration and some of the images on my home page. (please scroll down to the bottom of the home page). I am extremely grateful to u/pieterhg.
- tomhallett 5y ago
  Sorry OP, but I have to disagree. That link at the bottom is only visible if you scroll down for a few seconds. I scrolled around the site for a while and never saw it. If you want to give "complete credit", then I would recommend replacing the text in the header, from this:  to this:  where "Remote OK's VS Code Site" links directly to their VS Code site (not their "Show HN"): https://remoteok.io/vscode https://remoteok.io/vscode
  - samhw 5y ago
    Plus, like I said elsewhere, even the "Inspired by" section itself is copied from the original site. The entire page is copied verbatim, with only the text switched out for his cricket theme. I'm sorry to the OP, but you just can't plagiarise someone else's work like this and then write a fake diary about how you built it yourself (https://pankajtanwar.substack.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-to-browse https://pankajtanwar.substack.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-t...). By way of contrast, the 'Inspired by' on the original acknowledges its debt to Geektyper (https://geektyper.com/word/ https://geektyper.com/word/), an MS Word clone so different that no one would guess at the inspiration. That is an appropriate level of inspiration for such a small acknowledgement hidden right at the bottom.
    - spurgu 5y ago
      Meh, that's his problem if he gets hired due to this and is expected to produce something similar from scratch. Neither one is trying to make money directly off of this, what's the big deal?

pvtmert 5y ago

suprisingly, I have met some guy at the bar last Saturday, he quoted: "Good designers copy, best designers steal" I don' know the source though. But this immediately strike me as soon as I see your comment. :)

herbturbo 5y ago
Steve Jobs said that Picasso said "Good artists copy, great artists steal" so your guy at the bar must be a good designer.

samhw 5y ago

Hmm, it's pretty crap not to mention where the overwhelming majority of the code was clearly taken from – given they wrote a diary documenting how 'they' built this project, and then posted it on HN. And it's not 'inspired by' the other project. Lots of the HTML seems to have been copied verbatim into a React project, with very specific long CSS strings from the original site. Hilariously, even the tiny 'Inspired by' section at the end is itself stolen from the original site, which credits another site as inspiration (that site is genuinely different, emulating MS Word rather than VS Code). It was very courteous of u/pieterhg to respond the way he did, put it that way. ("Even still says index.php!")

karimf 5y ago

There's a line on the website if you scroll down all the way to the bottom: > Inspiriation and some of the images from this HN post. Which points to the Show HN by RemoteOK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472170 Not sure whether it's enough to show attribution.

kensai 5y ago
It is enough. He gives attribution.
- this_was_posted 5y ago
  Legally, probably. According to proper etiquette, far from it.
- tyingq 5y ago
  "Inspiration" though? It's loading the exact same images, in the exact same order, long passages of verbatim css, etc. It's fairly weak attribution there, and no nod in the blog post. It's "enough" from a copyright standpoint, but it's lame.
  - samhw 5y ago
    And, like I wrote above, literally the 'Inspired by' section itself was stolen from the original website. I'm sorry for repeating myself, but I'm in awe of how brazen this guy is.
piyush_soni 5y ago
It's not enough. And "Inspired by" is deliberately hidden below a long trail of text, and that itself is a lie. It's not "inspired by". It's "almost lifted from".

the2ndfloorguy 5y ago

OP here, thanks for your comment. I have given the complete credit & link to the original source for inspiration and some of the images on my home page. (please scroll down to the bottom of the home page). I am extremely grateful to u/pieterhg.

tomhallett 5y ago
Sorry OP, but I have to disagree. That link at the bottom is only visible if you scroll down for a few seconds. I scrolled around the site for a while and never saw it. If you want to give "complete credit", then I would recommend replacing the text in the header, from this:  to this:  where "Remote OK's VS Code Site" links directly to their VS Code site (not their "Show HN"): https://remoteok.io/vscode https://remoteok.io/vscode
- samhw 5y ago
  Plus, like I said elsewhere, even the "Inspired by" section itself is copied from the original site. The entire page is copied verbatim, with only the text switched out for his cricket theme. I'm sorry to the OP, but you just can't plagiarise someone else's work like this and then write a fake diary about how you built it yourself (https://pankajtanwar.substack.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-to-browse https://pankajtanwar.substack.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-t...). By way of contrast, the 'Inspired by' on the original acknowledges its debt to Geektyper (https://geektyper.com/word/ https://geektyper.com/word/), an MS Word clone so different that no one would guess at the inspiration. That is an appropriate level of inspiration for such a small acknowledgement hidden right at the bottom.
  - spurgu 5y ago
    Meh, that's his problem if he gets hired due to this and is expected to produce something similar from scratch. Neither one is trying to make money directly off of this, what's the big deal?