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[–] yesman 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Zizek has said before that all his books are reworded versions of the same book.

[–] psmgx 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lacan wrote said book years ago

[–] yesman 5 points 5 months ago

That's hard to verify since nobody has ever read Lacan. Most of us don't even read Zizek, we just heard about them both from Mark Fisher.

[–] PP_BOY_ 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago
[–] psmgx 2 points 5 months ago

Nah, is Dan Harmon of Community and Rick and Morty fame.

[–] bruhduh 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Software engineering be like: hold my beer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The best advice I got when learning programming was "why reinvent the wheel everytime you make a car?"

[–] Hugin 2 points 5 months ago

At my first job out of college they fired one of the new hires because he insisted on writing his own library instead of the functional and tested in house library. He was warned twice to use the existing library so it wasn't out of the blue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Self-plagiarizing is an increasingly dumb way to say stays on point.

[–] PP_BOY_ 2 points 5 months ago

In pop culture, sure, but self-plagiarization is 100% a thing in academia and just as much of a no-no as normal plagiarization.