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by blt 1760 days ago
> If the forums weren't there, read the docs, if the docs weren't helpful you could read the source.

This experience made me a true believer. Never needed to do it with kernel source code, but with libraries and userspace apps.

Hitting the closed-source wall in SDKs and environments like Matlab is frustrating and takes all the fun out of programming.