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		Biganon on Nov 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Ov... I never, ever copy paste code, unless it's really long. I always end up rewriting everything myself, so I have the time to think about what's happening.

andybak on Nov 4, 2016 [–]

Hmmmm. I'm the other way round. I copy and paste short snippets because I'm lazy and I can see if they are ok at a glance. Longer code I'll go through line by line and try and 'touch' each line to force me to think about it.

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