@vhoyer I would, but as the only one in my team who has a clue what all this entails and also being kind of the lead, I'd be letting my 2 buddies down, I know them for almost 10 years and they need those 20 points.

Also after I wrote this I talked to an old family friend who is an amazing sys admin and he knows all the IT firms and everybody at the university from back when they were student colleagues, he's 99% positive this was ordered by a store as their e-commerce platform as he knows at least 5 other cases of that happening at my uni. So I go with github and a restrictive license as that makes it open for anybody to use, which then fucks the uni to getting paid for it but also fucks them from forking it and not supplying source code. I want them to atleast know I'm onto them... even though I have no rights as a student basically because the whole uni is usually in on it.

@Brosyl here we have an IT outburst of western countries outsourcing to eastern countries as the wages are cut 60% and the timezone is better than outsourcing to India or other asian countries. That's lead to a pretty savage IT community that does just about anything to get the best devs and keep their contracts, it's the wild wild west. And the main problem is stealing code and ideas through devs but since IT is a newish thing here the laws aren't in place to protect the little guys. If you find someone loyal and write him a blank check, only way you can be at peace with your intellectual property. It's gotten to the point private companies are opening private universities as they can't get enough devs.

This is another story/phenomena I could write a 3 page essay about.

@Bitwise wouldn't suprise me, he tends to be a cunty grader. He's known to grade differently when it comes to gender, last semestar my friend asked him outload about it... it was pretty savage, and he did lose a grade for saying it. The girls agree too, we've talked about it behind the scenes.

@fuck2code thanks this seems like a really good choice

@DeadInside yeah that's my last resort. At first I didn't think much of it, but I've been warned by multiple people I know here in the IT scene that this is an old school scam they've been pulling for 20+ years. It might not be the case with us but it's for sure similar. I just figured easiest way to fix it is strap a license where my code or any derivative of it can't be used for commercial or financial gain. And also I plan to code it into a fucking dead end
so he can't modify it easily. However the fact that he wants me to make it production ready has lead me to be this suspicious as most uni projects are never even close to production ready.

FFS he's making us make it easily scalable, why the fuck would we need to do that if the course is based on advanced java and gui.

@DeadInside Dude I understand :) I've done 10 of them and most of them are fodder I shove on to github to live a miserable life. He's specifically asking me to do something high level and not fodder, and I work for a company on the side and this is basically what we do except I make a living out of it.

I don't mind writing a project this just seems waaaay overboard for 3 people and such a stringent deadline. I expect to spend a week only writing the freaking database and subsequent queries for the business model he's provided.

@sharktits you don't understand. He's basically asking us to write an equivalent of a product specific e-commerce platform from scratch. That's no small task and we're going to have to slave over it for 3 weeks (there is 3 of us) and at the end I get nothing (a 100 instead of 80 in that course), I just want to make sure he gets nothing as well.

@DeadInside yes I know... it's why I'm asking for advice. The only thing they seem to have a right to is a copy of the source, but never did they say anywhere they have the right to distribute it.

However he is not acting on the university's behalf, but he's expecting for it to be under an MIT license for instance... I don't want to put it under that since I'm going to spend (and my teammates too) days sitting at home coding this for basically nothing. I don't even have access to university resources as it's not that kind of thing... it's all a bit shady and he's a bit shady. I've done close to 10 uni projects and none of them had these kind of stipulations and restrictions, so I'm being skeptical. Knowing about horror stories that have happened to others.

@Bitwise no it's a new project and only 3 teams are doing it. He's filtered us by giving us a simple checkers game where most teams failed.

Also we're in eastern europe it's a known issue here, dozens of projects were built by students only for the profesors to get funding or sell them.

Thirdly he's very hushhush about it and he's known for taking other peoples shit, it's just he's kinda untouchable. For instance the whole university has to use his library to do something simple and then when students finish all they know how to use is his crappy java library so they end up spreading it...

I know I sound paranoid, but I've talked to all the other members of my team and they agree we need to be careful. It's also a project that's very popular here, as it's an e-commerce platform and those are spreading like wildfire.

@vyrtruus yes, they are that cheap. Although some professors take it on their own to supply students with software which is cool. However this prof. doesn't care

@eeee I don't live in that type of country :) unfortunately

If someone isn't a dev and says something wrong no problem... if he prefaces that with how he knows computers and believes all modern humans know how computers work. Well then that's diminishing to the people who know how it works and spent years learning it.

Fuck! I want pizza now...

@olback it's frozen :) and the prof. is too scared to restart

@anArchLinuxer I was forced to use MacOS coming from a Linux workstation (at my job). It also suffers from very bad multi monitor compatability, you never know on which screen an app will start and things keep running in the background where you have to quit them with Command+Q manually. Plus "exit" doesn't exit the terminal :P

I use all three every day, and they do what they are designed to very well. It's like tools, you have to pick the right one for the job.

Although they've started to blur the lines a bit... MacOs is becoming more unstable than ever, Linux is getting better at media and games, Microsoft is actually going forward considering what trash windows 8 was. In 10 years the great war might start, and the prophecy might come true...

I know the struggle, just set up a email filter to send all game related crap to a separate folder and once a month go inside select all -> trash, that's what I do since about 50 different game studios send me weekly "updates" about their shite

@LeFlawk so simple and addictive

@d3vnu11 well I understand phones, but sometimes I wish those where thicker aswell plus you could put in a battery twice the size and a headphone jack (looking at you apple)

@heyheni I guess, it's just I'm getting very discouraged, I've learnt swift and everything and the one thing holding me back is hardware... it drives me crazy when there is a 2s lag when typing and the interface builder just swamps my mac

That's why I double check when buying gear if it says works with PC, burnt way too many times

Bro I have the same 2011 MBP... and I got it second hand from a family member after the GPU died and was replaced. Seriously the GPU's they put in those MBP's are HORRIFIC. They suck and are basically a fucking heater for when it's cold... god forbid an emulator is running, I can't touch the keyboard.

Been there done that. Everybody huddled around my laptop like it was made of gold, and then walked away with that "heh that's dumb" look

@thewanderer ok cool, I got it from here. Thanks for the help guys :)

@ddephor thanks, I'll give it a look

Or when they make you login to email using their computers during an exam. You pray they don't have a keylogger or something

@CptFox can't understand why other companies like lenovo can't get the trackpad right. Would've thought they had it down by now.

@ArchLinux that's what I want actually, but it's not up to me... My mom has a older thinkpad and the quality and keyboard is really good, plus I like the "retro" look

@sladuled sure :)

What cooling pad is that? And are you satisfied, I've been trying to find a good pad for my macbook pro 2011, but due to it's no vent construction it doesn't work well with standard pads...