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Comment Rules of the game (Score 1) 164

I'm not sure what the hackathon rules say about slapping a search engine on top of Stack Overflow either. And that's basically what Turcios is doing. On one hand, I'm not sure if a 'smart' h.r. department at a software company hasn't caught on to this ploy during hiring interviews. (If such a thing as a smart h.r. department actually exists.) And refused a job offer.

On the other hand, this _IS_ code reuse. Which many companies support.

Comment Re: Conversations with a robot (Score 1) 168

Try to sit a colleague down and recite a complete application software specification to them. If they don't fall asleep, they will probably try to strangle you.

A formal spec is a difficult thing to write. But once done, it is practically an executable program by itself. Generating actual machine code from one is a simple exercise. Been there, done that. About 20 years ago.

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