At some point, most (all?) of us have "borrowed" code from the interwebs to use in our own code and that seems fine. But is copy-pasting blocks of code from another blog and publishing it in one's own blog considered as plagerism? I see this fairly often. Thoughts?
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Replying to @pattithepotato
i suppose there are levels, right? like, say it's something simple like: values = [2**n for n in range(10)] That's perhaps a low level since it's fairly basic. But: def fxn(n): return 2**n values = [fxn(n) for n in range(10)] There's more code but it's not different
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Replying to @pattithepotato @nickwan
If I write a blog post where I say: "Hi! My name is Olivia. Welcome to my blog." and you copy-pasted for your blog to say Patti instead of Olivia. I would argue it's so borderline as not to matter. That's getting to what a snippet is.
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Programming languages unlike natural language have pretty much only one (or at least significantly fewer) ways of saying the equivalent of "Hi! My name is Olivia. Welcome to my blog."
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So it's pointless to even try to claim a snippet is stolen. It might be copy-paste but it might also just be that that is like one of the only ways to write the simple little thing needed to be written.
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Any longer though, and yes, it's plagiarism. If you stole it, you stole it.
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