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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by AtheistOfFail on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:30PM (#13925934)
There was actually a web page that would answer your stack overflow answer by running and benchmarking all of them.

There was also a plugin that would allow you to directly grab code from stack overflow and put it right into your project, kinda of like a search engine for laziness (I think it was an Atom plugin)

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by PeterisP on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:47PM (#13926073)
There's stacksort, a sorting algorithm that searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them until it returns the correct answer.

An implementation is here https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by erik_seaberg on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:20PM (#13926351)
Also https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import which turns upvoted answers into modules.
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