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Nothing strikes fear into a developer's heart quite like touching working code. You spend 8 hours fixing a bug, finally get it working through some unholy combination of Stack Overflow answers and pure luck, and then the PM asks "can you just add one tiny feature?" The real programming golden rule isn't DRY or SOLID principles—it's the ancient wisdom of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" taken to religious extremes. We've all got that legacy system held together by digital duct tape that nobody dares to refactor. Sure, the documentation says "temporary solution" from 2013, but hey... it works!

Content Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow? Jessica Su, CS PhD student at Stanford Answered Dec 28 Upvoted by Rupak Hattikudur, Software Engineer LT Infotech and Terry Lambert, Senior Software Engineer: Novell, Artisoft, IBM, Array Netw... It's still worth the money. The breakdown is Copying code from StackOverflow: 1 Knowing which code to copy from StackOverflow: 100000year

First you learn to program. Then you make a recursive function. Then you forget the exit condition. And then... well, you get the idea. Or rather, you get the same idea over and over until your stack overflows and your computer begs for mercy. It's like telling someone "to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion" and watching them slowly spiral into madness.

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Content "So, you're a developer?That means you copy code from stack overflow right?" Me: You understand you just insulted my entire race of people? But yes.

Content The one true JavaScript exception handler. ;) try something catch(e) window.location.href "http:stackoverflow.comsearch?qjs " e.message;