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Re:Sirius: An Open Intelligent Personal Assistant by ribs on Sunday March 15, 2015 @05:23AM (#9205923)
I'm worried by the lack of package definitions in the Java source I looked at. You shouldn't be putting Java classes into the global namespace. I have to wonder what they were thinking.
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Re:Sirius: An Open Intelligent Personal Assistant by javajosh on Sunday March 15, 2015 @11:33AM (#9206817)
Pretty sure they were thinking about implementing AI. You'll often see computer scientists running roughshod over engineering best practices for the simple reason that they aren't engineers. And you know what? That's okay!
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