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I've used plenty of knowledge found on SO but I've never done a direct copy/paste. I also find it kind of weird how "normal" copy/pasting from SO seems to be. I
by sli 5y ago
I've used plenty of knowledge found on SO but I've never done a direct copy/paste. I also find it kind of weird how "normal" copy/pasting from SO seems to be. It's always paid off better in my experience to take the extra minute to understand the code I would have otherwise copy/pasted, and then implement what I need from it myself. The time savings from copy/pasting seem to average back out later as technical debt when something inevitably has to be fixed or changed.
- fierro 5y agoI mean sometimes you need the exact code described in a SO post, even if it's one line. So you either look at the screen and manually retype it, or copy and paste.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agocopy/paste doesn't imply avoiding to read, understand and modify the code. What with all those false dichotomies? Also SO is only an example. There are many sites, and I call BS anybody who doesn't Ctrl + C once in a while, be it from the docs.