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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.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-t...

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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 scroll down to the bottom of the home page). I am extremely grateful to u/pieterhg.

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

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-t...).

By way of contrast, the 'Inspired by' on the original acknowledges its debt to Geektyper (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.

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?

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".

Oh hmm yeah, the blog post is a bit dishonest.

No, it's wrong because it is wrong. Not because whether someone benefits or loses because of it. That doesn't matter.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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!")

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

Not sure whether it's enough to show attribution.

It is enough. He gives attribution.

Legally, probably. According to proper etiquette, far from it.

"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.

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.

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".

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. :)

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

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