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EPISODE · May 26, 2020 · 58 MIN

Do you borrow or steal code?

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Chris and Tim discuss the adage "Good coders borrow, great coders steal." They also talk about the term refactoring and why you should add that to your development routine. 0:50 Monkey rides a motorcycle 2:26 AWS Summit 4:05 Good coders vs. Great coders 5:50 Copy/Paste from Stack Overflow 7:14 Slippery slope 10:33 Solutions up-voted 12:27 Common libraries and utility solutions 14:32 Don't have to write/maintain/source control 15:52 Security - Beware of what you don't understand 16:51 Credit your original source 18:23 Smart consumer 20:13 No original ideas 23:43 Picasso said it?!? 27:22 Uber-fication 29:51 DON'T STEAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY!!! 30:50 Refactoring stories 37:11 Refactor, what is it good for? 40:17 The REAL definition 44:08 Simplicity 45:43 Give something a name 47:23 Why did you delete that? 50:48 Measure your code quality Article in the discussion https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/20/good-coders-borrow-great-coders-steal/ Refactoring https://refactoring.com/ Clean Code https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=_i6bDeoCQzsC&gl=us&hl=en-US ~ Social Media ~ https://twitter.com/forloveofcode https://www.instagram.com/forloveofcode/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/forloveofcode https://www.facebook.com/forloveofcode

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