hahah :) someday we will say "Computer make me a program" and it will make it from SO posts
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Re: Autocomplete from Stack Overflow
#22Boss never wants a function, boss wants a solution to a problem, and your job is to know how to express that in functions. If you have the signature, 99% of your job is done.
I know you know, I know they know, and I know you know they know. I just wanted to say it, ok?
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#23Cool idea, but kind of ironic that the example you used produces unnecessarily complicated stack overflow solutions. A JavaScript "contains" function is as simple as: var contains = function (needle, haystack) { return haystack.indexOf(needle) !== -1 }
Older IEs don't have Array.indexOf(). So you either have to extend the Array prototype or, you know, just implement it in a more compatible way.
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#24http://i.imgur.com/7SiQSD1.jpg
Where can you buy this book? I want it!
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#25Rather than indexing StackOverflow, why not do this by indexing all the open source code out there? Sure StackOverflow answers are good, but they usually skip error checking for focusing on the question at hand. Code used in production applications surely is more sound.
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#26If 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!
I think it forgets to include a license for all of the snippets that you use.
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#27http://i.imgur.com/7SiQSD1.jpg
Where can you buy this book? I want it!
No need to buy it, it's free:
https://www.gitbook.com/book/tra38/essential-copying-and-pas...
Found yesterday in this HN Story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11333448
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#28If 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!
So that interviewers can gauge your ability on searching & referencing code examples from the web? Who's being realistic?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
So that interviewers can gauge your ability on searching & referencing code examples from the web? Who's being realistic?
When I hired people for a very entry level position, this was 100% on the list of things you had to be able to do (use google effectively.)
Its amazing how many people cant.
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#30Interesting. I was working on something similar [0] last year. Are you planning on publishing the code?