alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · edit-21 year agoWhat came first, the programmer or the code?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up11.26Karrow-down124
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minus-squareStill@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·1 year agowell using someone’s code properly licensed isn’t plagiarism a fair few of my uni classes were like take this guys code and make it do this, which were like 4 lines changes
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-21 year ago“Here’s this header file that implements 99% of the mathematics, because I’m not paid to teach mathematics.” Ironically I learned a lot more about linear algebra from that header file than from my actual teacher.
minus-squareintelati@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoI just saw a “faster linear algebra” package scroll by on pacman. I almost pulled up the source/documentation. The only thing that stopped me was that I have about 199 things more relevant to my usage than linear algebra.
well using someone’s code properly licensed isn’t plagiarism
a fair few of my uni classes were like take this guys code and make it do this, which were like 4 lines changes
“Here’s this header file that implements 99% of the mathematics, because I’m not paid to teach mathematics.”
Ironically I learned a lot more about linear algebra from that header file than from my actual teacher.
I just saw a “faster linear algebra” package scroll by on pacman. I almost pulled up the source/documentation.
The only thing that stopped me was that I have about 199 things more relevant to my usage than linear algebra.