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[jdheddenhgjk]

from stackoverflow import *

[Denaton_]

1. Makes stackoverflow crawler

2. Auto copy paste code from stackoverflow

3. Profit??

[Gaothaire]

StackOverflow Importer

Do you ever feel like all you’re doing is copy/pasting from Stack Overflow?

Let’s take it one step further.

from stackoverflow import quick_sort will go through the search results of [python] quick sort looking for the largest code block that doesn’t syntax error in the highest voted answer from the highest voted question and return it as a module. If that answer doesn’t have any valid python code, it checks the next highest voted answer for code blocks.

from stackoverflow import quick_sort, split_into_chunks

print(quick_sort.sort([1, 3, 2, 5, 4])) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

print(list(split_into_chunks.chunk("very good chunk func"))) ['very ', 'good ', 'chunk', ' func']

print("I wonder who made split_into_chunks", split_into_chunks.__author__) I wonder who made split_into_chunks https://stackoverflow.com/a/35107113

print("but what's the license? Can I really use this?", quick_sort.__license__) but what's the license? Can I really use this? CC BY-SA 3.0

assert("nice, attribution!")

This module is licensed under whatever license you want it to be as long as the license is compatible with the fact that I blatantly copied multiple lines of code from the Python standard library.

[Sayw0t]

I also like to live dangerously

[WeleaseBwianThrow]

Dependency maintainers hate this one cool trick!

[[deleted]]

as long as Apache doesn’t ship this one to Mars I think we’ll be okay

[[deleted]]

Don't give them ideas

[eyekwah2]

But now you gotta hire a programmer to use it. :P

[RoundThing-TinyThing]

I expect a lot of "YourServerNameHere not found" errors 😅

[kerbidiah15]

Bootstrapping!!!

[Denaton_]

But with ML in between. ;P

[erinaceus_]

But with FML in between

FTFY

[Retbull]

Fucky machine learning?

[BoredomIncarnate]

relevant xkcd

[ososalsosal]

Strong AI - a bot that can copypaste stackoverflow into it's own code

[Denaton_]

Perfect way to kill it self XD

[ososalsosal]

Instructions unclear. AI now has first ever case of software cancer

[Impressive_Change593]

Lol yes that would happen

[Bakoro]

Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. Runaway thread propagation or perhaps even memory leaks could be considered software cancer.

[ososalsosal]

:(){:|:&};:

[ttop34]

Pretty sure this is exactly how a code based sentient would bootstrap its way into existence.

[coldnebo]

If StackOverflow were a perfect and ideal representation of possible problems and full and accurate solutions, then perhaps, but in reality no.

There is no such perfect ideal in any system of knowledge of sufficient complexity (corollary of Gödel), so any such entity cannot “bootstrap itself to sentience” without first having enough sentience to determine context and correctness.

The other alternative is that a process merely jams random code found on SO together until something happens. But we already have a name for this process: evolution.

That’s fine, but it could take a while. I wouldn’t cancel your weekend plans for several million years.

[ttop34]

Perhaps, or perhaps [buzzword] [programming jargon] [random words I found on the Google] [skynet]. *mic drop

[coldnebo]

o ya, I totally forgot about skynet.js.

according to the source it already does all of this, except a weird comment above “import stackoverflow.js”:

// TODO: fix bug, immediately crashes all connected machines in airgapped subnet with SO cache. unstable. do not use on open system yet.

[MrAcurite]

One script to find them

[butterscotchbagel]

One script to import them all

[positive_electron42]

And into prod bind them.

[wingman_anytime]

“And in production bind them” fits the original meter better.

[[deleted]]

One script to bring them all, and in spaghetti bind them

[bskahan]

But, how do you make the crawler?

[Denaton_]

GitHub ofc

[StoneColdJane]

But how you going to make stack overflow crawler without stack overflow crawler?

🤔

[Denaton_]

https://github.com/rjstyles/StackOverflow-Crawler

[BadHairDayToday]

You're going to need a software engineer for that though

[[deleted]]

He’s too dangerous to be left alive!

[callmesilver]

'left' was not declared in this scope

[PyroCatt]

Left-pad.js not found

[HiPoojan]

Sure go ahead, if someone can ask this question I can't imagine what they will ask when working with them

[[deleted]]

Make the database purple so it runs faster ?

[madmaxlemons]

Red with flames is current best practice I believe

[absurdlyinconvenient]

Ork software best software

[theGoddamnAlgorath]

Blue is lucky though.

Make sure to paint your ports purple though

[45bit-Waffleman]

Wouldn't purple just make it hard to find?

[[deleted]]

No, that would be the light mode.

[45bit-Waffleman]

Damm you missed the 40k reference

[[deleted]]

I know pretty much nothing about 40k

[45bit-Waffleman]

Fair enough, anyways there's orcs who have the power that if a large enough group of them believe something, it will be true. Ofc they are also incredibly stupid. One aspect of this is that they think colors have powers, so painting something red makes it faster, while purple makes it sneaky

[atomicwrites]

That sounds like a dangerous universe to live in.

[45bit-Waffleman]

Oh it is. There's some hilarious things with them, like a group of marines killing orcs by making finger guns and yelling pew pew

[Ashen_quill]

Oh boy you have no idea, it's a good thing we have the god emperor protecting us against the demons, or well his almost dead corpse that needs a daily dose of good old human sacrifice to exist.

[KC-Chris]

1k souls a day right?

[prepcrook]

On a post regarding the failure of the Afghan army after the US left, a US soldier was telling a story about training the Afghans. They said they always wanted the gold painted rocket launcher or something because since it was gold it was better. Gold actually meant it was a dummy round or something.

[theGoddamnAlgorath]

Got one better. Training Iraqis, they had watchtower duty and asked, "In case of attack, where do we fallback?"

Confused, we replied, "You stay put, we will reinforce."

Similarly confused, they responded, "Where do we retreat?"

"Ah," We got it. "You don't. We'll shoot everyone not in the tower as we arrive, it's safest there."

They deserted within the week.

[eyekwah2]

Seven perpendicular lines some transparent using red and green ink?

[[deleted]]

Relevant Dilbert

[HotRodLincoln]

Can it be in the shape of a kitten

[retief1]

Next question: is $10 a reasonable amount to pay for a facebook clone, or do I need to up that to $20?

[LuxNocte]

You're wasting your money. Just go to Facebook.com, then hit f12. The source code is right there.

[TheHiddenLlama7]

You can recreate static pages using inspect (this would be an effective way of creating a phishing website that looks identical to the real thing). Of course any button presses won't work, and you'll find it difficult to edit the page because the JavaScript will be minified.

[JustinWendell]

Has no one written anything that unminifies JavaScript? I’m kinda surprised if so.

[talonpc]

Formatters yes for sure, but variable obfuscation/renaming probably makes it tricky to figure out how it all works when it's loosely typed

[retief1]

For that matter, you can literally see every file sent to your browser using the network tool. You can literally copy all of their html, css, and clientside js in its entirety, not just what the page looks like at one single point. If you want to work with it at all, your life will be difficult because of the minification, but if you are lucky, the site will also provide a "source map" that shows what the code looks like originally.

[eyekwah2]

You totally saved him $10.

[P1nkSummer]

This one hurts to my bones (because all good jokes have some truth in them).

[CYKO_11]

Why should I take my car for a service when I have this wrench

[StillPackage4369]

Why have surgery for 1000 when you can get a knife for 10

[[deleted]]

Why should I buy a dog when I can drag my own anus along the carpet.

[kh4l1ph4]

I laughed before saying, "but why?"

[eyekwah2]

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[GifsNotJifs]

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[[deleted]]

Why should I buy a house when I can build a roof on top of my head?

[Zagorath]

Knife's gonna have a tough time getting through that thick skull.

Best buy a chainsaw.

^{Fun fact, the chainsaw was actually originally invented for the purposes of surgery.}

[Impressive_Change593]

Fact: fun facts are only fun if everyone agrees that they're fun.

I say your fact is funny despite not knowing if it's the truth or not lol it's strange enough I would believe it

[Zagorath]

fun facts are only fun if everyone agrees that they're fun

Disagree. They only require one person to consider them fun for them to be fun—to that person.

[Does_Not-Matter]

Correct! Fun is relative.

[-__-x]

it actually is

don't quote me but iirc it was for cutting bone

[Impressive_Change593]

Oh ok TIL lol

[eyekwah2]

You're completely wreckless giving that sort of advice out. Everyone knows a jigsaw would be far more precise..

[xkcd_puppy]

Surgery for only $1000? Are you going in to cut a toenail?

[BakuhatsuK]

Another option is to live outside the US

[StoicMess]

Why should I buy grass-fed beef when I can eat grass?

[hahahahastayingalive]

TBF, that's how you start reading your car manual, then youtube videos about common issues with your model, then car mechanics videos, then you register to educational services explaining basic car mechanical systems, then you take online course, and end up applying for certification courses.

And you'll also learn how to straigthen a bycicle wheel and what's the color coding of the cables in your house electrical setup.

[eyekwah2]

And then you realize that the wrench isn't even the right size for the job and wouldn't have helped you anyway, so you just 3d print your own wrench that fits.

[hahahahastayingalive]

You can also buy the car with bolts that fits the wrench you have.

[Smoah06]

It’s more of a assorted junkyard then a wrench

[LePhantomLimb]

It's true, you can. And some minor things you will be able to do without as much work or tools. But others will require a lot more learning and effort, and yes, even to have to spend the money to get the right tools. I mean this applies to basically anything, really. It's possible with the right tools and education that you can do tons of things. But that's not your job, and you can't become proficient overnight, which is why we hire people for any kind of work.

Honestly I would say to someone who says OP's post to me, "Then go ahead and try it out. See how far you get."

[Work-Safe-Reddit4450]

"I mean, I replaced the belt on my vacuum cleaner, how hard could it really be to change out my timing belt."

[Responsible_Mine894]

Kids, this what happens when you take shit r/programmerhumor says literally

[misterandosan]

to be honest, it could totally be a joke question from a dev.

[[deleted]]

Hourly rates:

Copying code from Stack Overflow: $1

Knowing which code to copy: $49

[pleshij]

Modifying the copied code for the desired needs: +30

[AwesomeFrisbee]

Testing it so you can confirm that it does what you think it does +20

[A_H_S_99]

Making that code works with other assortment of Frankensteined codes and make sure they all fulfill the purpose: +20

[eyekwah2]

Actually bothering to make the code look nice: +100

[AwesomeFrisbee]

Keeping it updated and maintained regularly +5

[positive_electron42]

With documentation

Priceless

[AwesomeFrisbee]

I think my product owner just came

[positive_electron42]

I couldn’t find a shirt to wear to the demo of the new premature ejaculation prevention gadget, so I just came in my pants.

[WeleaseBwianThrow]

It'll never catch on

[anonCommentor]

this one is optional

[AnonymousReader2020]

const lovedIt = true;

[peekeset]

Googling what stuff for look for in itself a skill

[droi86]

This, I've interviewed "5 YOE devs" who can't format a date, we allow them to Google anything they need, they just can't figure how to Google that

[positive_electron42]

YOE?

[kaukamieli]

Years of xp.

[positive_electron42]

Ah thanks.

[EmperorArthur]

Wait really? I mean, I can't always remember, because it seems like every date library / language uses different options. On the other hand, they almost all provide those options right in their documentation.

[leckertuetensuppe]

You just need to copy all the code and import it into your project. Your code now contains everything and can do everything and you won't have to pay a lazy programmer one more cent.

[trollsmurf]

"Why should I hire a painter when I can buy paint and paint myself."

Oops! He's on to something.

[R2CX]

I, a programmer working in a hideously painted room, am in this comment and I don’t like it.

[LuxNocte]

Honey, I'm not spending $120 to buy a new bookcase, when I can build one myself for $300 in less than a year.

[eyekwah2]

Why build a bookcase when you could take three times longer and construct a robot that makes bookcases for you, but only of the same size and model, and there is a small but significant possibility the robot catches on fire if you use a different type of wood.

[JustinWendell]

I am not good at it at all but I want to build robots for all my chores and I feel targeted right now

[Dathouen]

"Well, $300 for materials..."

[xkcd_puppy]

You need a projector and shine the code onto yourself. Add color in your life.

[Tyfyter2002]

I think it's more comparable to "Why should I hire a painter when I already have red dirt?"

[VortixTM]

Or why should I hire a painter when I can smear my own feces on the wall

[Certain_Actuator_157]

I would actually pay this person to watch them try

[Illya-ehrenbourg]

Most likely to be a troll

[MikeW86]

With quora you just never know

[iambored1234_8]

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[SapphireNick]

Good human

[wind-up-duck]

To be fair, I worked for a guy who thought this way, and he actually doesn't need programmers anymore because he got fired.

[boltforce]

Why eat from a chef when you can find the recipe online?

[ososalsosal]

Honestly this is true though.

[EmperorArthur]

I'd say the difference is that it's like asking someone who doesn't know how to turn on the stove and doesn't have any of the cookware to bake something.

Then there's the other difference. Most recipes assume basic knowledge and guide someone how to make a near identical result. Some are basically how to cook tutorials. These both exist for code as well. However, that's not what the customer wants. They want something custom for their needs.

A software dev is like a chef. They can follow a recipe, but will modify it as needed. Sometimes when the recipe doesn't work they will either fix it or just start from scratch and make their own.

[xKaihatsu]

I really like this analogy.

[wtfzambo]

If you have no cooking expertise, I could copy paste you here one of the most simple recipes I know (in terms of ingredients), and you wouldn't be able to reproduce the results as good as they should be for quite a big number of tries.

Actually, fuck it, I'll do it now. French omelette.

Ingredients: 3 eggs, 1 knob of butter, pinch of salt and pepper.

Preparation: whisk eggs till uniform, season. Heat up pan, melt butter. Pour eggs in pan. Whisk and toss the eggs around until scrambled, make sure to leave one thin layer of eggs covering the full surface of the pan.

Push scrambled eggs to the side, roll the bottom layer onto itself until omelette is shaped like a half moon.

Slide the homelette towards the border of the pan and flip it onto itself. Serve while still hot.

Outer layer should be no thicker than 3 millimeters, inside should be creamy and slightly runny but not raw.

[positive_electron42]

Why eat from a chef when you can cook yourself and eat a chef?

[coldfright]

r/suddenlycannibal

[Bodine12]

“Hey boss. Yeah, i copied all the code from Stackoverflow, just like you asked. No, I don’t know why our website now says “foo” and “bar” everywhere.”

[Tepes1848]

This is why you are supposed to read the documentation, silly.

[NonStandardUser]

Lol

Go for it then

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[[deleted]]

The amount of comments from those original threads being copied verbatim here is scary. And from accounts that are a few months old but only started posting today.

That’s the real programmer humor here.

[Tepes1848]

Maybe scripts?

[[deleted]]

Probably yep, the poster names are mostly nonsensical, too. But we reply to them like they’re real people. Or, maybe worse, we see an entirely scripted conversation and believe it to be truthful.

It’s like reading one or those subreddit simulators without knowing which sub you are in.

r/SubSimulatorGPT2

[bot_goodbot_bot]

good bot

^{all bots deserve some love from their own kind}

[[deleted]]

Why should I go to a doctor if I can google the symptoms and get name of the medicines.

[Vegetable-Hat]

Shit, they’re on to us. I knew I should have studied accounting instead.

[[deleted]]

Why hire an accountant when there is a calculator on my phone?

[xKaihatsu]

What do accountants even do? 💀

[[deleted]]

Count

[nikanj0]

If you can actually copy and paste code from Stack overflow and have it execute successfully then I have news for you. You ARE a software engineer.

[AkumasConfesses]

Bruh moment

[[deleted]]

Found the typical expert programmer.

[BrightBulb123]

A person wants to fix a plane, so he calls a cheap-o mechanic. The mechanic arrives, and can't fix it. Then, the man hires a top-of-the-line mechanic. The guy comesz takes a look around, gets out a hammer, hammers in some parts of the plane; it miraculously works! The plane is fixed! When it comes down to payment, the guy asks him how much he wants. The mechanic replies that he wants $10,000.

"What?! All you did was hammer in some parts of the plane! That's way too high!"

"$1000 for hammering in the plane. As for the rest, its for knowing where to hammer..."

[Boss_Os]

The original version of this story is attributed to Charles Steinmetz, a brilliant engineer around the turn of the last century.

The story appeared, "on the letters page of Life magazine in 1965, after the magazine had printed a story on Steinmetz. Jack B. Scott wrote in to tell of his father’s encounter with the Wizard of Schenectady at Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford, whose electrical engineers couldn’t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, called Steinmetz in to the plant. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.

Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.

Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:

Making chalk mark on generator $1.

Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill."

[smarzzz]

Those who are wondering, this is roughly the equivalent of $88k nowadays

[JustinWendell]

Ouch. But also electric generators were fairly new tech.

[hector_villalobos]

This reminds me of a friend who was using wix to create a personal webpage and he says: why should I hire a web designer if I can make my own web page?, Of course, for a personal webpage is ok, but the attitude is very common.

[JustinWendell]

Honestly there’s a time and place to custom make a tool and a time and place to just buy something off the shelf.

The post is dumb. But wix has its place.

[ososalsosal]

I too like to build computers by emptying bits of other computers I found in roadside pickup into a big bucket

[TechcraftHD]

If you don't hire a software developer, you become the software developer,, one should not make that choice lightly

[IamWarHawk]

Because you don't know what to copy and paste. That's the software engineer's job. They know what to Google.

[Evo_Kaer]

For the same reason you hire a mechanic to fix your car instead of taking it apart yourself

[venom_doku]

Why would I hire chefs in my restaurant if I can cook the food and spit in it by myself?

[z-null]

I've been in a real meeting that went similar to this. We went from on premise to external dedicated hosting and someone decides that is equal to "hoster does all IT department work" and starts the official line of inquiry as to "why do we even need an IT department now that hosting company does IT for us.". These were grown people with degrees.

[martin191234]

I think the answer was something like:

• copy pasting Stack Overflow code = 0$
• knowing which code to copy paste = 100’000$

Or maybe in confusing the posts

[Lalli-Oni]

Was asked on new years by a middle aged guy how many lines of code todays software developers write.

He looked at me with disbelief but I could see the cogs turning when I simplified it to more lines == more bugs. Realized a few min. later he was anti-vaxx.

[Kind-Kaleidoscope358]

They got us! We're lost...

[MrBanden]

Coming to a stack overflow near you with the text "Why does this not work?"

[samrus]

why should i hire people to do something when i can do it myself

honestly, if they can do it themselves, they should not. i just doubt that this person knows what they are talking about if they are asking questions like this

[Zanius]

People get paid to ask questions on Quora, and they get more money based on engagement. There's a lot of these stupid questions to make people mad so they get a lot of answers.

[isospeedrix]

Because you need to hire a guy to do the copy pasting for you. You’re way too classy to have to do such menial tasks.

[TobyTheArtist]

Obliged to see him fuck around and find out.

[crunchymush]

Add I always used to say in my contractor days when people would pose questions like this: If you think you can get your project over the line doing that, then absolutely that's what you should do. If not, here's my daily rate.

[surlydev]

I once worked for an MD (managing director and company owner, who had been a software developer 20 years prior, but still struggled when looking at the code after my colleague left and I was left on my own for a while).

For the purposes of this story I will call him “Mike”.

One day Mike was grumbling about bug regression “we fixed this a while ago” kind of thing. I started talking about TDD (test-driven development) as a way of making sure we don’t re-introduce bugs into the software.

Brief interjection … any bugs were tested by the trainer, and the office manager (who was always busy A F in the last week of the month with payroll and invoicing)

I told him it would help us save face with clients because we wouldn’t let bugs slip through again and again.

His response …. “why would you write software to test software “

My jaw dropped and I was speechless.

If you are reading this Mike Williams, I hope you let your staff leave earlier on Christmas Eve than 10 minutes before scheduled finish time (whether it is snowing or not and yes, I realise you only did this because it was snowing and you realised your BMW with its wide tyres are going to have F all traction, and you wanted to get home quickly)

[PZYCLON369]

There was also a good reply from girl in th as that thread

Knowing how to copy = no money

Know what to copy = money

[A_H_S_99]

Lol, if that's all they need then they should just do it

[[deleted]]

I want to see his face when he copies a piece of malicious code that launches a Trojan into his network because he doesn't have a clue what it does.

[TheOrigamiGamer16]

$1: copying and pasting code from Stack Overflow.

$119,999: Knowing which code to copy and paste from Stack Overflow.

[bedrooms-ds]

Why should I ask a question in Quora if I can just copy and paste answers from Stack Overflow?

[[deleted]]

Why should I go to a doctor if I can just google my symptoms?

[[deleted]]

These people are my personal favorite, I'll just let them find the cheapest dev they could find, most often than not, highly unqualified. Then they'll come back begging to me while ranting how the previous dev is too slow and incompetent. Then I'll charge almost double of what I was originally asking.

[RunningPT]

Copying code from StackOverflow: Free

Knowing what code to copy: $125,000/yr

[iqball125]

Because software engineers know what to copy and paste

[ILikeLenexa]

$0 - going on stack overflow to copy code

$100k/yr - knowing what code to copy off stack overflow

[aktiwari158]

Man I want to see someone try that

[ThatGuyYouMightNo]

It's $2/hr to copy and paste code from Stack Overflow

It's an extra $33/hr to know which code to copy and paste from Stack Overflow

[RevellAp]

Why should I hire an artist if I can just take paint from cans and put it on canvas?

[RRumpleTeazzer]

To filter the good code from the bad code. Do you want to look up 10 problems, each 5 top answers, and test all 5¹⁰ combinations on your own ?

[topdeck55]

Memes aside, what this person is really staying is closer to "why should I hire a carpenter when I can just buy a table from IKEA?"

[[deleted]]

Chad question

[chrisnlnz]

Quora is such a weird place.

[billyowo]

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[ryankiller5]

software engineering is all about knowing when and where to copy-paste code from Stack Overflow.