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If you want to prove you know how to program, and you take some well known open source software but change it substantially enough to make it a different produc
by qzw 4y ago
If you want to prove you know how to program, and you take some well known open source software but change it substantially enough to make it a different product that’s useful to some customers. Does that prove you can write software? I think it’s arguable, but it does prove you’re at least not completely incompetent around software.
- brookst 4y agoI mean I learned programming typing in programs from printed magazines and then modifying them a tiny bit, then a lot, then just glancing at the source, and then not at all. There is nothing wrong with learning by disassembly and modification. Tesla outright sold Lotus rolling chassis for their first car. Learnings from that produced the model S.
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- wil421 4y agoNo this is more akin to you buying off the shelf software from a local reseller, slapping a new UI, and then reselling it as a look-a-like competitors software.