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Where do you draw the line? Let's say I'm a core developer on Rails, am I not allowed to use Rails then? What happens if I contributed 1 line of code to Rails,
by mbesto 13y ago
Where do you draw the line? Let's say I'm a core developer on Rails, am I not allowed to use Rails then? What happens if I contributed 1 line of code to Rails, does that negate it then?
- makomk 13y agoThe obvious place to draw the line is the point where the code you wrote isn't equally available to you and all the other competitors.
- dllthomas 13y agoThis, coupled with a requirement about being clear what pieces are new.
- SilasX 13y agoAnd obviated by the judges having no easy way to learn and isolate which "part" of the app they're testing, and how such compartmentalization goes strongly against human psychology.
- dllthomas 13y agoI don't pretend it'll be "perfect", but it should let decisions fall (noisily) around what we think of as "fair" (since we're all running that assessment through the same hardware) which is really what we're looking for.
- bigiain 13y ago<rules-lawyering-participant>So I get my buddy/silent-partner to develop my cool and unique API beforehand and sneak it unannounced onto a relatively anonymous public Github account before the comp starts, but close enough to the start date that no-one else will have even heard of it yet. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!
- megablast 13y agoIt is fun to consider extreme cases, but I am sure this has never come up before.