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by oileurre 1282 days ago
So if I understand correctly, you rent a server, use a JavaScript framework, make requests to google's servers for fonts, etc. when you can just type wc -l?
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well maybe he/she is just training his/her skills. don't be so rude
or line counting is just a carrot, in reality he/she must be feeding the text to his/her machine learning algorithm.
I don't want to be rude but IMHO part of the training is choosing the right tools for the task
ok, great, but there are hundred other ways to say it better
I'm assuming you've never built something just for the sake of seeing it work before