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I'm kind of shocked how many people here are talking as though they would actually include this in a codebase.
What if, somehow, there was a guarantee that the code can't harm your machine -- would you use it then? This isn't a joke.
* Where "your" can mean you, your employer, your customer, another company, etc.
Reminds me of stacksort[1] [1] https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
>>Is it safe?
>>Uh… it evals both user input and random code, unchecked, from an external site. This is what security-minded folks would refer to as Very Bad™.
This might be a joke but everybody does it manually for real. Whenever I copy-paste some tricky function from SO I like to add a code comment with the url pointing to the stackoverflow.com answer. This allows future maintainers to refer back to SO and see if a better answer has surfaced or read comments about any issues.
Reminds me of stacksort[1] [1] https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
Very funny. I hadn't seen this before. I particularly like: >>Is it safe? >>Uh… it evals both user input and random code, unchecked, from an external site. This is what security-minded folks would refer to as Very Bad™.
This might be a joke but everybody does it manually for real. Whenever I copy-paste some tricky function from SO I like to add a code comment with the url pointing to the stackoverflow.com answer. This allows future maintainers to refer back to SO and see if a better answer has surfaced or read comments about any issues.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2014/02/17/int...
The tool is available here:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9...
If I have editing powers could I hijack the answer that gets its code imported?
Edits get reviewed before being published.
> We believe in the power of community editing. That means once you've generated enough reputation, we trust you to edit anything in the system without it going through peer review. Not just your posts—anyone's posts!
Reminds me of stacksort[1] [1] https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/