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Do you borrow or steal code?

May 26, 202058 minSeason 1Ep. 5
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Episode description

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


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