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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by spatulon on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @10:40AM (#837045)
Nice list, but you'd be surprised how little work it takes to build a functional web server. I know I was when a couple of friends and I wrote one in Haskell on a rainy day. We were just scratching an intellectual itch of course, so there was plenty of stuff it didn't do, but it served up HTML files and images just fine.
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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by jgrahamc on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @11:15AM (#837131)
I agree. Writing a web server is a trivial programming task. Want to do something networking that's hard? Write a TCP/IP stack: that was my first real job.
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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by notthinking on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @09:57PM (#838465)
Same, wrote one for an assignment in a couple of hours, wasnt remotely a good idea to use it in the real world thou
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