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by nottorp 1054 days ago
> That being said, any question that requires extensive discussion is likely not a very good fit for SO because it's probably ambiguous, unclear or otherwise hard to answer exactly.

So basically SO isn't a tool to improve your skills but one to turn you into a copy/paste monkey?

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I mean, if you can copy/paste my answer here into your codebase, I would be very surprised.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52206576/write-spark-dat...

I'm surprised you didn't get a mod complaining there's nothing to copy/paste in there :)
Stated a little more politely, that was its original purpose, yes.