Good coders borrow, great coders steal
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Good coders borrow, great coders steal
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Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#2parallels between coders and poets?
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#3I think I might have a few hundred copies of:
```
# From https://stackoverflow.com/a/246128
DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
```
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#4Making a copy of an example someone has publicly posted to help people and modifying that copy to properly integrate it isn’t “stealing”. It was offered freely and the original author isn’t deprived of the benefits of their original work.
This article just wants to sound edgy.
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#5Making a copy of an example someone has publicly posted to help people and modifying that copy to properly integrate it isn’t “stealing”. It was offered freely and the original author isn’t deprived of the benefits of their original work. This article just wants to sound edgy.
Content on Stack Overflow isn’t technically offered freely. It’s offered under a specific license with specific conditions.
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#6Making a copy of an example someone has publicly posted to help people and modifying that copy to properly integrate it isn’t “stealing”. It was offered freely and the original author isn’t deprived of the benefits of their original work. This article just wants to sound edgy.
Content on Stack Overflow isn’t technically offered freely. It’s offered under a specific license with specific conditions.
If you're working with more than a couple of people it can be worth running an audit on your code, including the libraries you're using. Even if the libraries themselves have permissive licenses, they may inadvertently include bits of SO code.
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#7Making a copy of an example someone has publicly posted to help people and modifying that copy to properly integrate it isn’t “stealing”. It was offered freely and the original author isn’t deprived of the benefits of their original work. This article just wants to sound edgy.
The article explicitly addresses it close to the end:
> To steal, however, is to make that idea your own. Taking credit for someone else’s idea is borrowing; understanding an idea and weaving it into your own work, that’s what he meant by theft.
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Content on Stack Overflow isn’t technically offered freely. It’s offered under a specific license with specific conditions.
If you're working with more than a couple of people it can be worth running an audit on your code, including the libraries you're using. Even if the libraries themselves have permissive licenses, they may inadvertently include bits of SO code.
know of any good tools to help identify those instances?
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#9Making a copy of an example someone has publicly posted to help people and modifying that copy to properly integrate it isn’t “stealing”. It was offered freely and the original author isn’t deprived of the benefits of their original work. This article just wants to sound edgy.
It's not trying to be edgy, it's riffing on a famous aphorism that is often attributed to Pablo Picasso.
Re: Good coders borrow, great coders steal
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're working with more than a couple of people it can be worth running an audit on your code, including the libraries you're using. Even if the libraries themselves have permissive licenses, they may inadvertently include bits of SO code.
know of any good tools to help identify those instances?
Sorry no, only that it was done by a third party prior to a funding round.