Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

This is really neat, and it will probably be very useful to some people, but it sets off some very loud warning bells in my head. Is s/o really for copypasta mining? Sometimes, I guess... but still.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 2:03 PM UTC

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Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by rjzzleep » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 2:06 PM UTC

i guess the vim, sublime, etc people that don't know it yet are gonna be happy, because it means that they'll find out about howdoi now:

https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi

    pip install howdoi

vim plugin: https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi

one of the emacs plugins: https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi

one of the sublime plugins: https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by thegeomaster » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 2:10 PM UTC

I think this is less useful than it looks like.

When editing code, I'm not browsing StackOverflow or switching to StackOverflow so much that the actual Alt+Tab-ing to the browser window is the bottleneck. And when I do Alt+Tab to the browser window, I usually search Google for what I want to achieve, and yes, most of the times I end up on StackOverflow, but sometimes other sites, most notably Wikipedia, can help me better. Periods when I'm on StackOverflow are more of a small research session within a development session. Quick look-ups constitute a smaller fraction of my Google searches, especially when I work in an environment/language I have grokked.

Pasting from the answers I see even less useful. What was the last time you actually pasted verbatim a code snippet from a StackOverflow answer? In 95% of the cases, I read the answer to get an idea and then implement it appropriately in my code. Such copy/paste solutions are most often just hackjobs full of kludges that are worth marginally more than a pile of dog shit.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by Dolimiter » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 2:13 PM UTC

Genuine question.

Are people actually using Atom in production projects? I found it unusably slow because it's browser-based; a generation behind Sublime Text in speed.

Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 2:20 PM UTC

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Re: Ask Stack Overflow for Atom

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Post by jbrooksuk » Mon, Jun 23, 2014, 2:21 PM UTC

Dolimiter wrote: post #8

Genuine question. Are people actually using Atom in production projects? I found it unusably slow because it's browser-based; a generation behind Sublime Text in speed.

I set myself a target to use it for a day, but it slowed me down far too much and I ditched it within three hours. I'm going to try again when there is more stability and speed.