• Alberat@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product

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      8 days ago

      How may Windows engineers have you met?

      99% of the ones I met and worked with were very, very good.

      Don’t confuse maintaining backwards compatibility and managing real concerns of large customers with bad engineering.

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        8 days ago

        you can still be a good engineer and still copy code from stack exchange. i wasn’t saying windows engineers are bad

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            19 hours ago

            have you met an engineer who doesnt copy code from stackexchange? I’m not saying they blindly paste it in and forget about it, but copying a line or two that you (now) understand is fine.