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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by 333c on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:34PM (#21062611)
It would be interesting to see it integrate with GitHub. Not sure if that's a good thing, but it would definitely be interesting.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by amrrs on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @02:40PM (#21063296)
And VS Code time and time again showing suggestions from SO Answers and Github - Coding made easy for any!
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by Pxtl on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:04PM (#21064610)
If VSCode would grep my stack-traces for exceptions it could find in StackOverflow automatically, I would be so there for that.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by tasubotadas on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @04:49PM (#21064473)
And after people provide them with enough suggestions-samples-picks, they will train AI to do the coding for you.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by giggles_giggles on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:04PM (#21064617)
Then we'll just need some sort of a language to explain to the model what we want the software to do....
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by justinclift on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:30PM (#21065339)
"Cortana, make the bike shed pink instead ..." ;)
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by pletnes on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:06PM (#21063509)
Stacksort, the least known sorting algorithm: https://m.xkcd.com/1185/

(See the image alt text)

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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by throwaway744678 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:46PM (#21063833)
Someone actually implemented that, I believe there was a Show HN a few months back.

Edit - there it is: http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by maze-le on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:00AM (#21068999)
* the horror
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by fourthark on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:42AM (#21067666)
I am always linking and quoting between the two. Quoting source code and automatic back links would be awesome.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by aitchnyu on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:58AM (#21069253)
MS could offer a scanner that could flag your private code in Github from showing verbatim in SO.
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