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Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary

by ronakjain90 on 9/28/20, 11:37 AM with 17 comments

• by thomasfromcdnjs on 9/28/20, 11:25 PM

  I read the whole article, it was well written and fascinating.

  But for those who don't read to the end, you will miss out on quite cool link that OP posted -> https://github.com/knadh/dictmaker (He wrote an OS project that runs all the infrastructure for your very own dictionary website.)

• by varbhat on 9/29/20, 7:21 AM

  Thank you for creating Dictionary for my First Language, Kannada . Really fascinated to see Work of V. Krishna .

  ಇದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ತುಂಬಾ ಸಂತೋಷವಾಯಿತು , ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು .

• by hezag on 9/29/20, 12:38 AM

  > So, that is the story of Alar and V. Krishna, the beauty of open data, and the incredible and infinite ways in which tiny, random events such as an overheard conversation, changes timelines, the Butterfly effect.

  Awesome article, thank you for sharing!

• by severak_cz on 9/29/20, 8:06 AM

  this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries?

  I know about https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)

• by kirankn on 9/30/20, 10:06 AM

  Wonderful effort folks. You are definitely creating something that's going to last a long time and help a lot of people. Zerodha is a company I will adore from now on.

• by kwhitefoot on 9/29/20, 7:43 AM

  That's beautiful and moving! This is what computers are really for.

• by alienonwings on 9/29/20, 7:54 AM

  ಧನ್ಯವಾದ