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Same! Also recreated the clear memory screen to protect all of that hard work.

Initially I was giving the programs to friends. Math teacher caught me and I thought I was getting in trouble for it. Nope! She said 'Never give away your work like that. Make them pay for it.'

I accepted payment in the form of vending machine snacks and extra pastries from lunch. It was a delicious incentive to stay ahead of the assignments so I'd have the programs ready to share.




Not exaggerating when I say your math teacher is one of the most enlightened I ever heard of. Fantastic story.


Yet you are posting this on stacks and stacks of code written by people who gave their work away


The difference is they just wanted the end result, and didn't care about the source code or how the implementation worked. Just a means to an end. People pay for that willingly.


The math teacher didn't say "never use free stuff".


On a money-making-machine-social-network, you mean.


Linux?

Nginx/apache/whatever?

libc?

Firefox?


HN


Math teacher next week: "Now where's my cut?"




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