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?
It's more about the simplicity of the task at hand than the lines per se. Although of course these are related.
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for anything that's not in official documentation I try to cite where I got it, at least. Even in my own programs. That way other people can go back if there's a problem and get more context.
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IMHO: Even something in official docs (if long, more than 2 lines) should be cited back to the official docs if lifted verbatim.
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BTW when I say "should" they obviously aren't going to sue you if you don't cite them, but also you would be laughed out of town if you tried to imply you wrote that code (I have seen this sadly). Not that
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I agree! (I mean, I don't think anyone should publish anything without citations; no one's come up with an idea expressible in language in complete isolation.)
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I think some of the saddest stuff I have seen was a person trying to show how well they can code and they lifted an example from the docs (and didn't bother to make it work for their task/data) and claimed it proved how they can code. Painful!
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Yeah, but also really sad. Really really sad. I feel an overwhelming sadness that her world was so confused.
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I wouldn't feel sad for people who try to deceive.
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