Comment by focusedone

Comment by focusedone 2 months ago

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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.

tomcam 2 months ago

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

  • ta1243 2 months ago

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

    • seanw444 2 months ago

      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.

    • recursive 2 months ago

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

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