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I am a programmer, not a rubber stamp that copy pastes StackOverflow answers I don't understand Or clones a template repo and only tweaks a few files Or impor
by Cheer2171 1y ago
I am a programmer, not a rubber stamp that copy pastes StackOverflow answers I don't understand
Or clones a template repo and only tweaks a few files
Or imports libraries with code I've never read
- zepolen 1y agoThis conversation isn't for you, you're not a programmer, you're a developer, a modern day script kiddy. Programmers wrote the StackOverflow answer and wrote that library.
- danielbln 1y agoThis conversation is for true Scotsmen.
- BiteCode_dev 1y agoYeah, I used to be in the top 100 SO users, so I wrote a lot of SO answers, and if you used Red Hat Linux, you probably used my library. But according to your definition, I'm a script kiddy.
- zepolen 1y agoToo bad parsing english wasn't your strong point.
- Copenjin 1y agoI understand which category of people you are describing, but this is what a proper programmer actually does: - Check stackoverflow only for very niche issues, never finds what he needs but reaches a solution reading multiple answers and sometimes used to post a better solution for his issue - Have his own templates if he does repetitive and boring stuff (common), implements the complex logic if any first and get the rest done as fast as possible being mildly disgusted. - Imports libraries and often take a look at the code noticing stuff that could be improved. Has private forks of some popular opensource libraries that fix issues or improve performance fixing silly errors upstream. Sometimes he is allowed/has time to send the fixes back upstream. When using those libraries sometimes he finds bugs, and the first thing he does is checking the code and try to fix them directly, no tickets to the maintainers, often opens a PR with the fix directly.