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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by ams6110 on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @11:15PM (#9574465)
Man pages. And one or two references on each main piece of your stack. If you can't program given that, you are not a programmer.
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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by xeromal on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:18AM (#9574644)
Why do you narrow your view of programmers so much in that one statement? Just because someone doesn't fit your definition doesn't make it true. Innovation is built on the foundation of other people's work. Man pages are not source for all human knowledge. People like you irk me to no ends.
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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by louthy on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @08:15AM (#9575776)
> People like you irk me to no ends.

That was unnecessary.

I don't know where the line is drawn between 'programmer' and 'cut n paster'; but ams6110 has a point that once you have enough foundational information on a particular stack then anyone calling themselves a programmer should be able to run from there. If you can't problem solve once you have the core information then I'd say ams6110's statement is accurate. Especially if everything you're working with is open source.

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by Dewie3 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @06:50AM (#9575476) 

    man svn
    [...]
    For more information about the Subversion project, visit http://subversion.tigris.org.
Of course you would use a DVCS in space, but still.
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