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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

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.

piyush_soni 5y ago
For the life of me I can't find any mention of where you have picked up the original source from (actually, I can't even find the "inspiration" mention) on your blog post. It's a deliberately misleading blog. It should be very clear in both letter and intent somewhere at the top. I was one of the first ones to comment on this post here praising the work, but now I know better. Please do not denigrate millions of Indians who work hard to produce original work and do not like to take credit for someone else's work.
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?
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    - piyush_soni 5y ago
      No, 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.
    - samhw 5y ago
      Well, 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 ago
        Oh hmm yeah, the blog post is a bit dishonest.
nirse 5y ago
For me the problem is really that the title of the post doesn't really do justice to pieterhg's effort. To me, that feels very strongly like you're adorning yourself with borrowed plumes.
rnotaro 5y ago
It should be at the top. We both know the reason why you've hidden it at the bottom of the page.

piyush_soni 5y ago

For the life of me I can't find any mention of where you have picked up the original source from (actually, I can't even find the "inspiration" mention) on your blog post. It's a deliberately misleading blog. It should be very clear in both letter and intent somewhere at the top. I was one of the first ones to comment on this post here praising the work, but now I know better. Please do not denigrate millions of Indians who work hard to produce original work and do not like to take credit for someone else's work.

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?
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  - piyush_soni 5y ago
    No, 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.
  - samhw 5y ago
    Well, 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 ago
      Oh hmm yeah, the blog post is a bit dishonest.

nirse 5y ago

For me the problem is really that the title of the post doesn't really do justice to pieterhg's effort. To me, that feels very strongly like you're adorning yourself with borrowed plumes.

rnotaro 5y ago

It should be at the top. We both know the reason why you've hidden it at the bottom of the page.