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WorldClown ago

His brain was evidence he was a legit genius.

They didn't have the internet and because of all the wars the scientific community wasn't openly sharing any of this.

When I write a piece of software I use maybe 50%-75% of other people's work - libraries and functions. Does it mean I didn't write my software?

metricisokay ago

If you are a good programmer you shouldn't be depending on so many libraries. You certainly didn't write those libraries, so, you wrote the code you wrote and not the code you didn't write.

What is this faggot shit, do you have loop-de-loops in your brain?

WorldClown ago

Do you code? I don't rewrite things like date parsers, database hooks, certain sorting algos. No need to reinvent the wheel.

metricisokay ago

You didn't say that. You said your code is 50-75% modules. The answer is no, you didn't write that, it's a pretty simple answer. The same applies to incestuous kid fucker Einstein.

WorldClown ago

I'm confused. I write code which utilizes modules - then those modules are 'included' in my code base. The inclusion is in the form of the 3rd party modules and also the constructs and methods used to call the modules. I didn't 'invent' those I simply use protocol/language someone else devised to utilize their module. So I would count that too.

I don't think I misspoke.

metricisokay ago

You've moved the goal posts. If you included the language as being "something you didn't write but are just using" then you may as well include the operating system and so on. In which case the sum total of your code is nothing close to 25-50% of the project. So that isn't what you were talking about.

You were talking about libraries and modules. If your project is comprised more of other people's code than your own, then most of the project wasn't written by you.

You understand that. So I'm losing track of what we're actually talking about.

WorldClown ago

I suppose the difference is in mathematics the .Includes don't reference the author's name but in coding, importing a library intrinsically includes meta information about the original authors.