There is substantial technical debt introduced by copy and pasting code. I've made a rule for myself: Never paste more than three lines of code at once. It forces me to understand the code I'm copying, and it keeps my work tidy.
I closed my browser for 5 minutes and then wrote down what I remembered. I've printed out these pages and put them in a splendid ring binder. The hardback edition therefore takes pride of place on my shelf, and by the logic of the authors I wrote it myself.
joke image -> joke book. It's 4 pages (not to knock the content, I haven't actually read it. The author does say " The book is written in a deadpan manner.")
I feel like this is a smug joke about a problem which doesn't actually exist. Effective engineers know how to look things up. Stack Overflow is one very effective way to look things up or at least provide pointers to authoritative sources of information which might otherwise be difficult to uncover or not obvious from the original source.
Not everyone is like you. There are devs who use the internet to understand things, and when they see some code on the web they use that as a template to help with their particular problem. There are other devs who barely deserve the name, who struggle with everything they run up against and who blindly copy/paste code without an understanding of how it works or what it means in an effort to get the problem to go away. And of course there are folks of varying levels of talent in between.
Yes, it is a bit of a smug joke, and a bit of self-deprecatory humor as well. Since plenty of people leverage the expertise of folks on stack overflow and are still effective devs in their own right. But it feels like you would be shocked by the notion that a significant number of professional developers would struggle with, say, the fizzbuzz problem. But everything I've ever seen indicates that there is a huge class of developers who earn decent wages doing coding for a living at lots of places who nevertheless struggle with coding at a basic level.
Not shocked at all. I don't think people that can't do fizzbuzz are using stack overflow at all. Part of why they can't produce anything is because they can't use reference resources effectively and thus never learn anything.
"Using code from Code Review and Code Golf may also be rather unethical, since you are just taking advantage of the fact that everything is automatically licensed on Stack Exchange under CC-BY-SA 3.0 with no exception."
I disagree. If you knowingly publish your code on such sites, then you know ahead of time that the license is CC. Others are abiding well within their rights as licensees if they use your published code as such.
It's only unethical if CodeReview did not clearly and plainly disclose their licensing agreement a priori, or if, as a licensee, you violated the terms of that license.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 66.2 ms ] threadJust like how the US economy works.
But, of course, that's very unlikely to happen.
Unless there is some type of reference, you have no idea of what is going on or why...
Yes, it is a bit of a smug joke, and a bit of self-deprecatory humor as well. Since plenty of people leverage the expertise of folks on stack overflow and are still effective devs in their own right. But it feels like you would be shocked by the notion that a significant number of professional developers would struggle with, say, the fizzbuzz problem. But everything I've ever seen indicates that there is a huge class of developers who earn decent wages doing coding for a living at lots of places who nevertheless struggle with coding at a basic level.
Does anybody know how to make a Sublime Text plugin? Oh wait, I know where to look that up.
I disagree. If you knowingly publish your code on such sites, then you know ahead of time that the license is CC. Others are abiding well within their rights as licensees if they use your published code as such.
It's only unethical if CodeReview did not clearly and plainly disclose their licensing agreement a priori, or if, as a licensee, you violated the terms of that license.