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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 swit
by 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 agoMeh, 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?
- samhw 5y agoWell, it's generally frowned upon to pass off someone else's work as your own. Hell, he wrote an entire blog post detailing the process of 'building' this website (linked above). It's staggeringly brazen. The only true sentence in his post is "It makes me look like I'm doing real work".
- spurgu 5y agoOh hmm yeah, the blog post is a bit dishonest.
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- piyush_soni 5y agoNo, it's wrong because it is wrong. Not because whether someone benefits or loses because of it. That doesn't matter.
- spurgu 5y ago"Right" and "wrong" can often be quite an over-simplification as well as cultural (among other things)... But I also clarified things in a sibling comment.