http://lwn.net/Articles/198066/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Changing the Report, After the Vote (Inside Higher Ed)". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/198151/rss 2006-09-04T10:04:18+00:00 eru <i>No amount of convincing on my behalf was sufficient to persuade him that seeing the "real" source is much better than just having short examples and API docs. Go figure...</i> <p> But he was right! After all, we all know that automobile mechanics are <b>never</b> let to touch a real engine or gearbox during their training. Just looking at diagrams, photographs and plastic models is quite sufficient. Otherwise they might get their hands dirty, or accidentally cut a finger, or even steal a trade secret or two by handling a real part. Cannot have that happening... <p> ( :-) :-), :-), just in case...) http://lwn.net/Articles/198131/rss 2006-09-03T23:11:59+00:00 bojan She did sound really desperate, didn't she? :-)<br> <p> I now remember a discussion I had with some bloke on one of the forums, where he claimed that there is no big educational benefit to programmers (current and future) in seeing and experimenting with a piece of seasoned, production quality source code. No amount of convincing on my behalf was sufficient to persuade him that seeing the "real" source is much better than just having short examples and API docs. Go figure...<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/198130/rss 2006-09-03T23:01:51+00:00 bojan WOW! And I really mean it - it's not just a cheap joke.<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/198100/rss 2006-09-03T07:30:56+00:00 dark "it’s a method of coding software, and one of several available, period."<br> <p> Is that going to be Microsoft's new line?<br> <p> http://lwn.net/Articles/198083/rss 2006-09-02T20:05:19+00:00 smitty_one_each <font class="QuotedText">&gt;[Gerri Elliott] called the original wording of the document “parochial” and a “commercial endorsement of specific products.” (In an interview Thursday, Elliott noted that she had never, during the panel’s year of deliberations, “expressed endorsement of one platform over another — that would have been inappropriate. I was not on the commission representing my company, I was there to represent the workforce.")</font><br> <p> Can I get a "wow"?<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/198067/rss 2006-09-02T15:30:50+00:00 cpm <p> So much for free markets, eh?<br>