DevLorem
Dev tools
placeholder text generator
SHOW HN2015
18points
7comments
#1,340of 2,565 in 2015
Top 53%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Design: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Commenters like the crafty idea of movie-quote placeholder text
From 1 comment
I think all of these are really great, and really crafty. I went to use one of these one time and it was even harder to explain than Lorem Ipsum. "That is not what I want my…
BorisMelnik on HN
Objections
Censoring profanity like f*ck seems pointless
From 2 comments
> "f*ck" instead of "fuck" Really badass...
Kristine1975 on HNcensorship of words seems kinda useless, people will still read it like it wasn't censored anyway, so why would he even censor it
Zekio on HN
Requests
Add a corporate-style placeholder generator
From 3 comments
I think all of these are really great, and really crafty. I went to use one of these one time and it was even harder to explain than Lorem Ipsum. "That is not what I want my…
BorisMelnik on HNCorporate Ipsum. Nice idea.
Kovah on HNHere you go: https://github.com/Kovah/CorporateLorem
Kovah on HN
Make it available as an IDE plugin
From 1 comment
why is this not in my ide already? should be a key selling feature!
mc_hammer on HN
Generate sentences from context-free grammar rules
From 1 comment
how about generating sentences based on cfg rules ?
sktguha on HN