Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Do Real Programmers Copy/ Paste Code From Stack Overflow?" video.

  1. Nowadays, an important contribution to your CV can come from building up an online reputation. Maintain an account on GitHub/GitLab. Publish a few projects of your own. Contribute to a few projects of other people’s. Get your name into the Git commit history of something well-known. All this adds up.
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  2. No, I do not copy/paste code from StackOverflow. In fact, it’s quite rare that I learn anything useful there https://github.com/ldo/scan_disks/blob/master/scan_disks .
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  3. 4:31 Code reuse is done by including libraries into your project. If you are doing it via copy/paste, you’re doing it wrong.
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