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jmt710 | 19 days ago

These arguments absolutely infuriate me. You're code is not that unique. Lots of people write the same snippet everyday and have no idea that somebody else just wrote the same thing.

It's such a crock that you can somehow claim you're the only person who can write that snippet and now everyone else owes you something. No. No they don't. Get over it.

Writing a book is different. Lifting pages or chapters is different because it's much harder for two people to write the exact same thing. Code is code, it follows a formula and a everyone uses that formula.

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20k|17 days ago

Writing an exact copy of a nontrivial function by mistake is so rare that i've never seen it happen in 20 years of programming