If it's a joke "Ahah", if not it's just depressing. SO is a valuable resource to confront and understand concepts. Let's not encourage this copy/paste culture
Autocomplete from Stack Overflow
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Re: Autocomplete from Stack Overflow
#12We can feed the SO data to a ml algorithm and pretty soon we won't even need software engineers. Go today self coding computers tomorrow.
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#13This isn't working at all for me...Either I don't get what it's supposed to do, or the common functions I'm typing aren't common enough. On a related note, 50 StackOverflow points seems like a high number for something like this, and may reduce the results significantly enough that the example doesn't work for most common problems.
I only have 50 stack overflow points /total/ (although I only very rarely post) so I would absolutely agree that it's way too high.
Accepted answers are also included.
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#14We can feed the SO data to a ml algorithm and pretty soon we won't even need software engineers. Go today self coding computers tomorrow.
Of course we still need software engineers troll SO :).
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only have 50 stack overflow points /total/ (although I only very rarely post) so I would absolutely agree that it's way too high.
Accepted answers are also included.
My understanding is that it's only using code from accepted answers with 50+ points tagged JS.
So an accepted JS answer with 49 points would not be included, nor would a JS answer with 500 points that was not marked accepted.
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#16Re: Autocomplete from Stack Overflow
#17If it's a joke "Ahah", if not it's just depressing. SO is a valuable resource to confront and understand concepts. Let's not encourage this copy/paste culture
Why not? If it gets the job done (probably faster too). I would even suggest that be realistic and allow copy/paste during interviews too!
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#18Can't really see this being useful if I'm honest. Here you are simply showing the code suggestions based on what the user is writing. You are completely ignoring both the context of the code being written by the user and of the code being suggested.
These are key functionalities in order to actually be usable. With this you simply get hundreds/thousands of suggestions that are not related to what you are coding. And if by chance the suggested code is exactly what you want, then the variable names wouldn't even match. This is assuming that the suggested code is complete and functional.
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#19Can't really see this being useful if I'm honest. Here you are simply showing the code suggestions based on what the user is writing. You are completely ignoring both the context of the code being written by the user and of the code being suggested. These are key functionalities in order to actually be usable. With this you simply get hundreds/thousands of suggestions that are not related to what you are coding. And…
I don't think the point was to for it to be useful, it was something fun to do.
