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Agree. > cargo-culting Stack Overflow What do you mean by this? I understand “cargo-culting” as building false idols, e.g. wooden headphones and runways to at
by dejj 9mo ago
Agree.
> cargo-culting Stack Overflow
What do you mean by this?
I understand “cargo-culting” as building false idols, e.g. wooden headphones and runways to attract airplanes that never come.
- kjellsbells 9mo agoIt means to copy code or instructions from a site into your own project without having any comprehension of how or why it works. example: you have a Windows problem. You search and read that "sfc /scannow" seems a popular answer to Windows problems. You run it without ever understanding what sfc does, whether the tool is relevant to your problem, etc. You are cargo culting a solution.
- kunley 9mo agoCargo-cult in relation to programming exists since late 80s. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cargo-cult-programming.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cargo-cult-programming.htm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
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- PaulStatezny 9mo agoI think the idea is copy-pasting code snippets from StackOverflow without comprehension of whether (and how) the code fixes the problem.