Outstanding Objects (Developed Dirt Cheap)

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Outstanding Objects (Developed Dirt Cheap)

Posted by michael on Friday June 6, 2003 @08:26AM from the search-twice-code-once dept.

Mark Leighton Fisher writes "Some readers might be interested in Outstanding Objects (Developed Dirt Cheap); or "Why Don't Developers Search the Literature?" It seems like I still see a lot of wheel reinvention going on, even with the wealth of code and information now available on the Net."

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WHY DONT YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-06 08:29 · Score: -1, Troll

and stop telling developers what to do you freaking moron.
Because... by Znonymous+Coward · 2003-06-06 08:29 · Score: 0, Troll

they all use visual basic!!!!11

In which case they are not inventing anything.

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Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
J. W. Dean's essay on software reuse & Patents by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-06 08:32 · Score: -1, Troll

J. W. Dean's essay on software reuse, reinvention amd Patents
Because it sucks.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-06 08:34 · Score: -1, Troll

Because everything that is available on the web is not always good. Some crappy piece of code doesn't become good because its source is published!

Welcome to the real world

Sorry to tell you this, bus most code available online is just crap, including academic stuff.
Software and Patents by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-06 08:34 · Score: -1, Troll

J. W. Dean's essay on software reuse, reinvention and Patents
HELLO!?! CAN NE1 HEAR ME?!!? by Bold+Marauder · 2003-06-06 09:03 · Score: -1, Troll

I CAN'T SEE ANY POSTS. HELP?
Re:Library bloat by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-06 09:28 · Score: -1, Troll

I don't care for your analogies, I will onely tell you one thing: I'm coming STRAIGHT FORWRD towards yor creamy ass ...

Tonight, I killed a bird, tomorroy I will kill two, guess what? In a year I will have killed about 360 birds (I spend like 5 or 6 days a year celebrating Snut-Fest with 500 masturbations in a row until my cock has so many blood as ptr2void's ass after a good ole' night of action)