Nissan app developer busted for copying code from Stack Overflow

Brisingr Aerowing

:doh: :wtf: :~ Remind me never to get a Nissan...

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

Amarnath S

At least, change the variable and function names to something synonymous.

Mycroft Holmes

I usually include the URL to any code I have used from the internet, including SO, CP, MSDN and any other resource where I snaffle code from. I only change the variables if the original don't make sense in the context. The included URL gives the support guys some context and it is doco that I don't have to write.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

Peter_in_2780

Broken link? I get a 404 page. Cheers, Peter

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Dan Neely

The stackoverflow question[^] says the article was taken down. I tried the internet archive[^]; but it's currently erroring out. Hopefully the latter will come back online soon. :sigh:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Vark111

I've done the same on numerous occasions. :thumbsup:

Kent Sharkey

I think the complaint/laugh was less about the source being copied, and more about displaying the comment about SO on the actual app screen. For me, anyway.

TTFN - Kent

ignatandrei

Self promotion: he should read first Smart Copy Paste from Stack Overflow( or any other site): A book for normal programmers, Andrei Ignat, eBook - Amazon.com[^] [^]

Dan Neely

Archive.org only caught it after the article was yanked. OTOH the SO answer history linked to a Tweet[^] with the full fail included.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Nitin S

:thumbsup:

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