programmer job in a nutshell - eviltoast
  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’ve straight up ripped code from StackOverflow that worked… But I had no idea why or how it worked 😂 I taught myself Go and I’m decent at it, one of my coworkers was a former professional programmer who knew C and could fumble his way through Go. I later told him I had no idea what some of the code did because I did the old copy and paste and he just said “I knew you did” 😂

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      8 months ago

      When someone copies from stack overflow, a reviewer’s first question should be “did you copy the question or the answer?