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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X**=>< }{ X Y='/ % Z**=2 z Common mispellings: the = teh that = taht take = taek own = pwn you = joo dude = jood common..

W.w.s.l.j.d

1. what would Samuel L. Jackson do? guy: look there's a man and his wife robbing a diner, W.W.S.L.J.D? guy 2: he would kick ass and..

Manualize

1. Making something manual "I manualized that hoe last night...." See manual, manualize, manualism..

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