Reminds me of stacksort[1]
StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules
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#13This is a really stupid idea, even as a joke to play with. Someone can just edit the top answer to make it malicious and steal your personal or work data from your workstation.
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#14This is a pretty cool idea! Concerns for running unknown code aside, it seems like the results of this type of thing would be prone to potentially frequent change.
I wonder if there'd be a way to maintain consistency, something like a requirements.txt file that got spit out to describe what the results of the search terms mapped to when the code was run.
It could just contain the search term and link to the chosen question. Although you'd still run the risk of the answer itself being edited. The code itself would have to be cached in whatever this file was.
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#15Somewhat related
https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
with the vim frontend
https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi
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#19Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1185/
"StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted."
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#20What a fascinating concept! I think that with some kind of review built in, this kind of dynamic loading would be really useful. I think if you do this, you'd want external tests, or some way to pull the code in and "freeze" it so that you wouldn't be at risk of external compromises. (For example, a high ranked SO user might be able to change a highly ranked answer . They might not do it, but someone suborning their…
I was thinking the same thing about the freeze.
Something like the equivalent of `pip freeze`