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I'm sorry but no. This article should be called "The best programmer I know can quickly understand things he finds from google, but I don't really know what he's doing that makes him so awesome".

Sure googling something fast can be a nice little boost to productivity, but only if you know what you are doing. If I drag and drop code from my web browser instead of using copy paste, I might save a few seconds after doing it 50 times; but if I totally fuck up my code-base because I don't know what the code is doing, then productivity is going to decrease significantly when the entire team gets backed into a corner and has to take the time to figure out where the bugs are, if/how to rewrite core systems, and hopefully this wont happen, but where the security holes are that let a hacker pwn your DB or worse.



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