Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (2013)

Re:Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions ... by template3 on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:42AM (#18383717)

This is unintentionally fucking hilarious. You already concede that review is a “maybe”... so we have to assume it won’t happen. So basically your argument boils down to web code meeting the high standards of being “written by someone” and put in “some form” of a production environment. Any http server on a routable ip address qualifies as “some form” of production environment.

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Re:Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions ... by VBprogrammer on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:49PM (#18384285)

I'd go further. I'd be much more trusting of running and random JS found on stack overflow than the JS found on your average production environment.

Stack overflow is heavily moderated. I think it'd be a challenge to put something malicious on there which lived for more than an hour or so.

Compare that to your run of the mill PHP shared hosting. I know which side I'd rather take my chances with.

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Re:Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions ... by pc86 on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:39PM (#18384200)

You don't think there's the slightest bit of difference between production code written at even very dysfunctional organizations with mediocre developers, and random answers on StackOverflow?

And you've only been here for a few weeks so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but calling something "unintentionally...hilarious" is usually taken as just another way of calling someone an idiot. I'd suggest you try to find ways to make your point without deriding those who don't share your view, especially on something so inconsequential.

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Re:Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions ... by nothrabannosir on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:11PM (#18384493)

> You don't think there's the slightest bit of difference between production code written at even very dysfunctional organizations with mediocre developers, and random answers on StackOverflow?

I do; a random SO answer will be miles better than anything coming out of an average organisation.

To write an SO answer, you need to actually care about answering SO questions. To write code in an average company, you need to... have a pulse, it seems.

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