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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 attract airplanes that never come.



It 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.


I think the idea is copy-pasting code snippets from StackOverflow without comprehension of whether (and how) the code fixes the problem.





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