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Same! Also recreated the clear memory screen to protect all of that hard work. Initially I was giving the programs to friends. Math teacher caught me and I th
by focusedone 2y ago
Same! Also recreated the clear memory screen to protect all of that hard work.
Initially I was giving the programs to friends. Math teacher caught me and I thought I was getting in trouble for it. Nope! She said 'Never give away your work like that. Make them pay for it.'
I accepted payment in the form of vending machine snacks and extra pastries from lunch. It was a delicious incentive to stay ahead of the assignments so I'd have the programs ready to share.
- tomcam 2y agoNot exaggerating when I say your math teacher is one of the most enlightened I ever heard of. Fantastic story.
- ta1243 2y agoYet you are posting this on stacks and stacks of code written by people who gave their work away
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- recursive 2y agoThe math teacher didn't say "never use free stuff".
- actionfromafar 2y agoOn a money-making-machine-social-network, you mean.
- ta1243 2y agoLinux? Nginx/apache/whatever? libc? Firefox?
- actionfromafar 2y agoHN
- seanw444 2y agoThe difference is they just wanted the end result, and didn't care about the source code or how the implementation worked. Just a means to an end. People pay for that willingly.
- saalweachter 2y agoMath teacher next week: "Now where's my cut?"
- 1992spacemovie 2y ago[dead]