Re:The arrangement with my code is the same as with my text....
by derefr on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @08:08PM
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Yes: you are in a minority within a minority. Of the programmers who read to further their education after school is done with (an already-small number), most will be complacent to read books, or blogs, or at the most journal articles. The number who dive into a foreign codebase—that is, one they have no association with and don't rely on for anything—without the expectation of eventually contributing something (i.e. In OSS) is vanishingly small.
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Re:The arrangement with my code is the same as with my text....
by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @12:30AM
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Random rails and jquery plugins tend to be terribly documented and frequently make easy to fix design errors. I read code all the time -- if I am committing it to the repo, I want to be sure I know how it works. For "black box" things I usually won't delve that deep, but if it really needs to integrate, I usually end up reading it sooner or later.
My only regret is not pushing more changes back upstream