Cargo-culting

What is Cargo-culting?

The act of copy and pasting code from a source (book, website, CD_ROM etc) into code you are writing, without first understanding what it does.

"Jane is always cargo-culting javascript from dodgy progamming websites."

Teleported

1. When someone is so drunk that they don't remember getting home and then all of a sudden they are home. They remember leaving and a..

Gullman

1. A gullman is an individual who partakes in the activity of "Gulling". This is not a formal title but merely a salutatory mean..

Lawsuite

1. What people threaten to do when you post nasty things about them on the internet. Isn't "HEH HEH I BET THEY'D CHANGE THE..

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