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Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github 105

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 28, 2011 @06:23PM
from the wye-wood-enny-wan-wan-thatte? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Github projects may be seeing a different kind of contributor than normal: a small bot is now crawling through projects, contributing spelling corrections. It builds on top of the github API and existing documentation style-checking code. Future directions for the project look beyond spelling mistakes and at automated bug fixing on a large scale."

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#!/user/bin/pearl (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday August 28, 2011 @06:28PM (#37237220)

I wonder if this bot will do as well as every HR department out there posting "pearl" and "unique admin" positions

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Re:Yeah, I'm sure... (Score:5, Funny)

by 50000BTU_barbecue (588132) writes: on Sunday August 28, 2011 @07:07PM (#37237482) Homepage Journal

Don't worry, some bot will fix that.

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Oppressive autocorrection. (Score:5, Funny)

by TWX (665546) writes: on Sunday August 28, 2011 @07:13PM (#37237520)

Clbuttic overaction, in my opinion. This buttbuttination of our writing by computers is out of hand. I don't know if my consbreastution can take it...

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Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong (Score:4, Funny)

by Sarusa (104047) writes: on Sunday August 28, 2011 @07:58PM (#37237790)

Yeah, I did notice that (pull request), but I secretly love the idea of a braindead iphone type spell corrector running around automatically changing 'strcpy' to 'stripy', or 'unlk' to 'unlink'. And then thinking you can fix it with even more complex regexps.

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#!/user/bin/pearl (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yeah, I'm sure... (Score:5, Funny)

Oppressive autocorrection. (Score:5, Funny)

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