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What is the ways to view the examples without download the example files in github?

If you can view the file on raw.github.com you can drop the first dot to view it on rawgithub.com—a free proxy service.

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5:55 pm / 1st December 2013 / github, programming, webdevelopment, quora, open-source

What are the most commonly used or most interesting open-source packages and software?

I’d say the open source browser engines, Gecko (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari, Chrome, iOS, Android) are probably some of the most important and widely used pieces of open source code these days.

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6:45 pm / 5th February 2013 / opensource, programming, softwareengineering, quora, open-source

To become a better developer ? To read more OR to create/contribute to open source projects?

Contribute to an existing project, rather than starting one yourself. There are a bunch of benefits:

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9:58 am / 14th November 2012 / opensource, programming, softwareengineering, quora, open-source

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