How does the author determine this is the "most copied snippet" on SO? The Question/Answer has only been Viewed 351k times. There are posts with many millions of views e.g: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/927358/how-do-i-undo-the... which have definitely been copy-pasted more times. Yes, there may be many instances of this Java function on GitHub. But only because the people doing the copying are too lazy to think about how it works never mind alter the function name. If there's a bug, just update the SO answer and fix the problem. No need to write a lengthy self-promoting post about it.