News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Nissan app developer copied code from Stack Overflow.

Re:Nissan app developer copied code from Stack Overflow by dontscale on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:10PM (#11633482)
Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing.

When I paste code, I include a comment with the link back to SO. I see it as the standard way of declaring a precedent in programming, where upvotes signal strength.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nissan app developer copied code from Stack Overflow by ryanlol on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:27AM (#11634650)
>Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing.

If the code you're working on is CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed, sure.

[ Parent | on HN ]