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Copy-Paste Driven Development
StackOverflow Webdev Programming
1 month ago 83.1K views 0 shares
Copy-Paste Driven Development
Education: "Plagiarism is unacceptable!" Programmers: "I found this on Stack Overflow" = "I have achieved innovation." The sacred ritual of copying code and pretending you didn't is basically the unofficial programmer handshake. Your professor would fail you for copying an essay, but your tech lead will silently judge you for not stealing that sorting algorithm. Why reinvent the wheel when someone else's wheel has 457 upvotes and works in production?

Yes Linux Is Much Better
Linux Programming
2 months ago 98.8K views 0 shares
Yes Linux Is Much Better
The eternal Linux paradox in three panels. First, we're all high and mighty about how "Linux is superior!" Then reality hits when we need to do something basic like print a document or play a game. Suddenly we're sheepishly booting into Windows like the tech hypocrites we are. Twenty years of Linux evangelism and I still keep that Windows partition for "emergencies" (aka anything requiring normal human functionality). The dirty secret of every Linux purist is that Windows backup they never mention in forum arguments.

Open Ai Reaction To Deep Seek Using Its Data
AI Security Programming
2 months ago 120.4K views 0 shares
Open Ai Reaction To Deep Seek Using Its Data
The irony of AI companies fighting over scraped data is peak Silicon Valley drama. OpenAI spent years vacuuming up the internet's content to train ChatGPT, and now they're clutching their pearls when DeepSeek does the same to them. It's like watching a digital version of "The Princess Bride" where the dude who stole everything is suddenly outraged when someone steals from him. Twenty years in tech has taught me one universal truth: there's nothing more sacred than the data you've already pilfered from someone else.