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...yes?
A (human) coder should definitely be able to think about a novel problem and come up with an algorithm to solve it without copying the algorithm from someone else. Particularly for those circumstances where there isn't any option but to come up with a novel solution.
Pretty sure the joke is that the human in this meme isn't a coder at all.
I took it more as a (very common among coders) joke about how writing code is actually just googling and copying code from Stackoverflow. (Of course it's exaggerated, which is part of why it's, while not completely true, funny.)
Exactly. Me not knowing the language perfectly isn’t the same as me not knowing how to program.
It’s not really any different than looking up the spelling of the word, except in this case a misspelling makes the code inoperative so accuracy is important.
It's true in a lot of fields. TS Eliot (probably) once said "Good writers borrow, great writers steal."
Yeah. I make those. They are very shit though.
Hey hey... at least they're original shit
The good coders are good because they know how to copy and paste. It’s the same as “googling it”. We’re good. We ain’t got nothing to prove to no one. And we know where all the bodies are buried.
When it comes down to it we are all copying the basic instruction set, over and over and over.
That's like saying all writing is copying the dictionary.