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Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by gkoberger » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:36 PM UTC

potch wrote: post #10

I'd love a way to see the code that ran to generate the output.

There's a link to it in the "output" on the right (but yeah, I should make it more obvious)

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by barredo » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

Really good work gkoberger!

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by deathcakes » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

I did wonder how long it would take after reading that comic to someone implementing it.

Congratulations!

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by btipling » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

Quick someone write a 'sort' that steals github session cookies. ;P

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by phantomcircuit » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

It seems to pretty much always pick http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14761032/infinite-recursi...

Needs some randomization.

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by checksum » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

So if I make a post on stackoverflow with the tags "javascript" and "sort", and put some dirty JS in there, could it take down people's browsers?

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by gkoberger » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #15

Quick someone write a 'sort' that steals github session cookies. ;P

I only search answers posted before the comic was released for this reason :) (Also, I block any code that uses the word "cookie")

Plus, I'm assuming that since they let anyone run arbitrary code on subdomains, they've thought this through.

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by pmelendez » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:50 PM UTC

Wow.. beautiful!

I know this is only for fun, but it can start something bigger. Basically, given an input and output we could search for an algorithm that works. It reminds me a talk that PG gave in which he states people making bots to optimize code and then an intelligent compiler could be done. It sounded very futuristic, but maybe it is not that futuristic after all...

Re: Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort

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Post by _dark_matter_ » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 5:51 PM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #18

btipling wrote: post #15

Quick someone write a 'sort' that steals github session cookies. ;P

I only search answers posted before the comic was released for this reason :) (Also, I block any code that uses the word "cookie") Plus, I'm assuming that since they let anyone run arbitrary code on subdomains, they've thought this through.

Quick, someone edit your code that has "javascript" and "sort" as keywords so it steals session cookies!