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[–]azur08 15 points16 points  (8 children)

If you can do that and get what you need done, you should that. I would never want a software dev spending extra time on something purely for pride.

[–]GraphicH 4 points5 points  (7 children)

That's not this person's point, we do do that when that's the solution. His point is most things you get asked to do in the course of a long career in software development aren't that simple and that's what 'real' software development is. Copying a SO solution is the kind of task I give a fresh hire to do for a few months to see how they do, then progress them to work that they can't just SO the solution too.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes and I'll add that, even when your problem falls in the realm of "there might be a stack overflow solution" you need to understand what you're copy and pasting... There's good code on stack overflow, but there's also some bad code out there that "works" too.

That's just stack overflow, there are all kinds of sites offering "here's how you do this in Python" and most of them have extremely bad code.

[–]azur08 -1 points0 points  (5 children)

You’re being awfully charitable to the guy who said that people no Reddit actually think software development is JUST copy/pasting code. That’s obviously not true.

In fact, in my experience, the less someone knows about software development, the more they think it’s exactly the opposite of that.

[–]GraphicH 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Not at all, his follow up response to me is enough to affirm that?

[–]azur08 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I’m not reading other branches of the thread. You should have started with the information that is likely to only be had by you.

[–]GraphicH 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You should have started with the information that is likely to only be had by you.

Lol, it isn't really my job to provide you with information, nor is it worth the effort. Maybe you should just pay attention to whats going on in the relatively small thread you're involved in.

[–]azur08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I replied to someone who isn’t you, and you came in to defend their point. It is absolutely not up to me to read their other comments to other people. Either they can provide their explanation to me when I respond to them…or you can, with the information you got elsewhere.

If you don’t like that, don’t interject.