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."

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Yellow Death

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Indian Tongue Rash

1. Covering your tongue in gum so that the tongues do not touch. (A relative of the Dutch Rutter) Uh-oh i think i'm gay, i kissed Ro..

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