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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by krapp on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:22PM (#17694110)
Yeah, not successfully compiling and running was an automatic fail in my school.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by api_or_ipa on Sunday August 05, 2018 @09:03PM (#17694482)
If it didn't cleanly compile and run on linux, it was a autofail. I found a discrepancy in MPICH2 the hard way: it would correctly implement my leader election on my mac, and on my little raspberry pi, but not on a Solaris linux!

Lost 5% of my grade to that bug.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a... by dorgo on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:36PM (#17708715)
Once, I implemented an interpreter/compiler for a toy-language in Opal (a functional language developed and maintained by my prof). A compiler for Opal was only available for Linux. I had zero experience with Linux and no intention to gain any. So I wrote my code without compliling/testing. Suprisingly, I got a good grade with a remark that the grade would have been even better without syntax errors :D
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