Will there be an example of a bad regular expression that could take down a website?
Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
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Re: Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
#12This is cool.
It would be nice to have an API for this so that my IDE can pull these examples.
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#13Will be interesting to see what the moderation guidelines will be like, and how zealously they are "interpreted".
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#14Great idea I especially appreciate the fact that its done by example. A couple of things that bothered me are: 1. The UI needs some refinement. I was looking to find a topic to post about and from my 10 minute browse I realised that if I was meant to find information in this documentation it's really hard to find what you are looking for. After you drill down to a tag it feels "unstructured". Readthedocs layout feels…
Regards to no. 2 in your list, I was thinking something akin to MSDN, whereby one can change the version of the platform in question (Say MS SQL, .Net Framerwork)
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#15Awesome! I've actually been working on a java IDE that allows uploading examples together with the results to a website:
http://jpad.io/example/1s/generating-random-int-array-within...
The idea is to build up libraries of examples in different areas, allow easy code sharing and to remove some of the cruft needed. It's good to see stackoverflow hit this "code examples" area better.
Re: Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
#16Awesome! I've actually been working on a java IDE that allows uploading examples together with the results to a website: http://jpad.io/example/1s/generating-random-int-array-within....
The idea is to build up libraries of examples in different areas, allow easy code sharing and to remove some of the cruft needed. It's good to see stackoverflow hit this "code examples" area better.
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#17there's gotta be an integrated way to copy&paste examples (i.e. via autocompletion/snippet) from SO to our favorite code editor/IDE :D
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#18Great idea I especially appreciate the fact that its done by example. A couple of things that bothered me are: 1. The UI needs some refinement. I was looking to find a topic to post about and from my 10 minute browse I realised that if I was meant to find information in this documentation it's really hard to find what you are looking for. After you drill down to a tag it feels "unstructured". Readthedocs layout feels…
Regarding #2: I noticed that in Python there are content blocks that can be marked specific to a version.
Re: Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
#19[META] This is popular, but is there a way to notify the mods of duplicates so that conversation doesn't get fragmented? I flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135897 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12136086 but I don't know if that's the right thing to have done?
Re: Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
#20[META] This is popular, but is there a way to notify the mods of duplicates so that conversation doesn't get fragmented? I flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12135897 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12136086 but I don't know if that's the right thing to have done?
linking to the more active discussion(!) and then flagging is the correct thing. If you do it before other comments have been added, this even flags the post as [dupe] automatically.