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The United States government has made good on its policy of requiring agencies to release 20 per cent of their bespoke code as open source by making code.gov live, complete with lots of code. Code.gov is a rather bare bones affair, with a listing of available projects its richest page as it offers code from 13 agencies. Among …

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  1. Mikel

    It's a start

    I imagine there is far too much to browse tonight. Some of the NASA stuff looks interesting.

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  2. david 12 Silver badge

    Requires javascript

    Not "works better with javascript", or "is broken without javascript". Actually just a message telling you that you may only view the site if you enable javascript.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Requires javascript

      How else are they going to snoop around in your computer?

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      1. Eddy Ito
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        Re: Requires javascript

        I also imagine a substantial portion of the code available for download is written in javascript.

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