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:<p><a href="https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi</a><p><pre><code> pip install howdoi
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vim plugin: <a href="https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi</a><p>one of the emacs plugins: <a href="https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/atykhonov/emacs-howdoi</a><p>one of the sublime plugins: <a href="https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/azac/sublime-howdoi-direct-paste</a>
I think this is less useful than it looks like.<p>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.<p>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.
Genuine question.<p>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.
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.
Watch out for the license. The source appears to be licensed under CC-BY-SA, which at the very least requires attribution, and might be GPL3-style viral.<p><a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-worry-about-copyright-issues-for-code-posted-on-stack-overflow" rel="nofollow">http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-w...</a>
<a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/</a>
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/" rel="nofollow">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/</a>
Same thing for VisualStudio/Bing<p><a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-4a48-a5fd-504ff4ad1b65" rel="nofollow">http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-...</a>
This is neat. I use a similar tool on VS 2013 [0]. MS launched it very recently. It's called Bing code search. Pretty nifty, Although it's lot advanced but I hope tools like this grow to be better and comparable to this one. Anyone using vs 2013, do check this out.<p>[0] <a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-4a48-a5fd-504ff4ad1b65" rel="nofollow">http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-...</a>
Personally, I am shocked that everyone applaudes such a thing on HackerNews. Is that what programming means nowadays ? Copy-pasting random code snippets from StackOverflow, gluing them with other code snippets found elsewhere and hoping that it compiles. Anyway, OP seems to have done a good job; he has identified what modern programming means and provided an excellent tool to increase today programmers productivity. Excellent ... and hopeless.
Microsoft did it before:<p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/02/17/introducing-bing-code-search-for-c.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/02/17/intr...</a><p><a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-4a48-a5fd-504ff4ad1b65" rel="nofollow">http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-...</a>
Dash App also have an offline Stack Overflow access (20gb):
<a href="http://blog.kapeli.com/offline-stack-overflow" rel="nofollow">http://blog.kapeli.com/offline-stack-overflow</a>
(great for developing on the airplane)
I see it is a pretty useless package because switching to Stack Overflow once in a while isn't a big productivity hit for me. I would prefer not having anything except my project code on my window.
seems to be done atm.<p>here's a cached version: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://atom.io/packages/ask-stack&ion=1&espv=2" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...</a>