Re:Stop complaining and pay programmers more
by raffi on Thursday July 01, 2010 @12:16PM
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Linguists call them real-word errors. They're very common in writing and spell checkers do nothing to protect against them.
I work on a free browser extension called After the Deadline. It picks a lot of this stuff up. It didn't pick up this particular example, next time I deploy an update to our service it will.
Re:Stop complaining and pay programmers more
by billswift on Friday July 02, 2010 @01:59AM
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Actually I suspect that spelling checkers have made them more common. I know I see them a lot more often on the Web, and have been seeing them increasingly frequently over the last few years.
I work on a free browser extension called After the Deadline. It picks a lot of this stuff up. It didn't pick up this particular example, next time I deploy an update to our service it will.
You may want to check it out, it works here on HN too: http://www.afterthedeadline.com
(as a note, I tend to make the same types of errors)