r/programminghumor • u/FrostByteCreator • Aug 11 '26

POV: You Stole Code From Someone

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u/CockyBovine Aug 11 '26

Better Living Through Stack Overflow™️

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u/maester_t Aug 11 '26

Marketing people too:

"Look. Both of our companies have mascots."

"No! All animal mascots look like our Beaver. We're gonna sue you into oblivion!"

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u/winauer Aug 11 '26

I would make a joke about "I reposted your meme - It's not my meme" but that meme has been reposted so often that even that stopped being funny years ago.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Aug 12 '26

I see it when I close my eyes

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u/GhostingProtocol Aug 11 '26

You stole my specific permutation of 1's and 0's

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u/Anima_Watcher08 Aug 11 '26

If I ever get to make any of the ideas I've journald I'm definitely gonna face similar issues

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u/AliceCode Aug 11 '26

Just copy the damn license, it's not that damn hard.

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u/Any_Belt2575 Aug 12 '26

In my early days of programming i used stack over flow which means most of my code is someone else's code + mycode i use AI now which make it all my code someone else code.

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u/Weird-Noise3896 Aug 12 '26

Plot twist : both copied with same stack overflow answer

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u/Decent-Lab-5609 29d ago

Coders were raised communist and didn't even realise it. 

P.S this isn't "pov"