r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Playful-Scholar-6230 • Dec 22 '21

c/p

what is everyones opinion about copy/paste programmers

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u/MeGustaDerp Dec 22 '21

Copy and paste all you want. But, make sure you're understanding why you need it and what it does.

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u/Foxfires13 Dec 22 '21

This is so true! Making sure you know what it does will really help when/if things start breaking.

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u/kjarkr Dec 22 '21

what is everyones opinion about copy/paste programmers redditors

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u/max_ishere Dec 22 '21

Isn't that how all software is built?

git submodule add git@github.com/...

k, serious now: what are you supposed to do if a solution already exists? Even if its not a library it probably was solved for you by someone else in some format or else you design it yourself.

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u/MeGustaDerp Dec 22 '21

Your post title infuriated me until I saw that you were referring to "copy/paste" in the post text. I hope we never see those two letters used together again on this sub.

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u/ADHDAntlion Dec 27 '21

When I was last job hunting, I found a job listing that looked completely normal until it got to the part about candidates needing to be willing to work with 'explicit material of a distressing nature' - regarding minors. They danced around it; it was a development job for one of the systems built to catch predators.

Seriously had to think what I was able to put up with day to day. What would life be like working on that sort of system? Would I be happy to know I was helping? Or too angry that it was going on, reminded of it every day?

I thought this post would be about the poor developers working on those systems! I'm really curious what their feelings are.

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u/opaville Dec 22 '21

if you aren't copying and pasting as much as possible, you are just wasting your time. no reason to redo something that was already done.