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But you could still paste ^d (End-of-file)? Granted, if you paste ^d in the terminal, you'd exit, but one could do this?: dangerous-commands \n ^d #eof dangerous-commmands \n #repeat (I'm not actually sure if you can paste ^d in general... but I expect you could?)
Great point, we've just fired another salvo in an escalating war. The only winning move is not to paste. :)
So, ok. Don't copy and paste from a website to a terminal, I get it and I got it the last time that this kind of thing was posted. But if I look around I put so incredibly much trust in total strangers all the time that compared to say ordering a pizza (where the cook could put anything in the food they wanted), driving on the highway (where anybody could swerve any moment if they wanted) and simply walking down the…
Not burned in the sense that I executed some hidden commands in the terminal, but I've tried pasting snippets of text in IRC and ended up pasting several lines of text that absolutely did not select. While this may not be a huge issue in practice, I have no idea what motivates the inclusion of functionality that manipulates the clipboard in the browser. I don't really think that the analogies of anyone swerving on th…
But without being able to manipulate selections, some nice features of certain sites would be lost. (e.g. the "share" link in StackOverflow automatically selects the URL for you so you only need to press Ctrl-C, instead of having to select it manually.)
At the time I'm typing it the post has 516 points and 201 comments, so many people have been here. Now: how many people will actually stop doing that after reading the post? Because I don't think I will.
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At my school, it was made very explicit that you'd be immediately expelled for plagiarism (subject to appeal, IIRC, but yes: One strike.)
As it should be. The whole system is underpinned by the assumption that no one can cheat. Everyone knows tons of people cheat, but any university who has a "n-strike" policy for academic dishonesty (aka fraud), is purely in it for the money. To students who busted their asses to graduate legitimately, it's a hard slap in the face.
I never paste anything directly anywhere when copied from a webpage. I first paste it on Notepad to handle any formatting and hidden text. Once pasted on notepad, I copy/paste to the final destination.
Notepad? Sounds like your machine is already infested with malware ;-)
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Isn't the first place you would go to the Oracle manual? I use stack overflow all the time these days (documentation pages before that existed), not quite cutting and pasting but close enough.
The thing is, if you came to me and said "I know everything in this book", I'd say "so let's save money and buy the book instead of hiring you." Interview questions are an opportunity for you to show what you are worth. If you're worth less than a book, it's not a good sign.
No one knows everything; or even a majority of things. How fast you can find an answer is what determines your productivity. Whether its via a book, a man page, google, stack overflow, or asking the right people doesn't matter.
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At my school, it was made very explicit that you'd be immediately expelled for plagiarism (subject to appeal, IIRC, but yes: One strike.)
As it should be. The whole system is underpinned by the assumption that no one can cheat. Everyone knows tons of people cheat, but any university who has a "n-strike" policy for academic dishonesty (aka fraud), is purely in it for the money. To students who busted their asses to graduate legitimately, it's a hard slap in the face.
Also the idea that "the system is underpinned by the notion nobody can cheat" is absurd. Cheating is rampant! Even in the ivy leagues. Especially in the ivy leagues! But people still value college degrees.
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The thing is, if you came to me and said "I know everything in this book", I'd say "so let's save money and buy the book instead of hiring you." Interview questions are an opportunity for you to show what you are worth. If you're worth less than a book, it's not a good sign.
The most important skill is to know how to look something up. No one knows everything; or even a majority of things. How fast you can find an answer is what determines your productivity. Whether its via a book, a man page, google, stack overflow, or asking the right people doesn't matter.
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As it should be. The whole system is underpinned by the assumption that no one can cheat. Everyone knows tons of people cheat, but any university who has a "n-strike" policy for academic dishonesty (aka fraud), is purely in it for the money. To students who busted their asses to graduate legitimately, it's a hard slap in the face.
I think I know what you're saying. Still I wonder if perhaps the students that worked diligently and honestly gained more in the long run.
I'm not encouraging cheating here. But I learned that sometimes you have to accept that you hold to some rules just because morality, and you don't need to invent practical reasons to justify it to yourself and others. Sometimes following the rules leaves you worse off, but the world where people follow those rules is better for everyone than the world where they don't, and I want to live in the former.