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prospero

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About prospero

code @ http://github.com/ztellman words @ http://ideolalia.com

ztellman@gmail.com @ztellman

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    My point is that the creator/user dichotomy exists at every level of software.

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    Show me a software developer who isn’t an end user for someone else’s code.

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    Here’s one in Java: https://github.com/lacuna/bifurcan/blob/master/src/io/lacuna...

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    Yes, and that is used as an example for the general point: a network transparent API doesn’t help us understand the network when it inevitably fails.

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    Comment #41622261

    The point is that an interface should help you to both ignore and understand the underlying implementation. I'm not sure I understand your point about data and transport, since mos…

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    Comment #23686505

    It's very plausible that these techniques could be used to fix the output of a CSG library that uses floating point math, but I'm not sure what the specifics would look like. If an…