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      1 year ago

      No matter what you work on, programming is one of:

      • Check the documentation for a library, copy&paste the interface call, fill in the blanks.
      • Pick the best algorithm for the case at hand, copy&paste, change a few variable names.
      • Get out your snippets archive, copy&paste the one you need.
      • Write some boilerplate, copy&paste over and over, then fill in the blanks.
      • Look up how someone else solved your problem, replicate it in a way that doesn’t look like copy&paste.
      • Once in a blue moon, come up against an actually novel problem, spend some days figuring out the best way to solve it… then copy&paste the solution back into the project.

      Doesn’t matter what you’re working on, in the end it’s mostly copy&paste 😂