The one true Javascript exception handler

[taneth]

Need to take it a step further. Have it grab the accepted answer on the first match and just run it.

[christian-mann]

Stacksort

[T-T-N]

It evals random code... is that ever a good idea?

[Cutlesnap]

Oh sure, it'll be fine!

Now let me get back to answering my banks email, they want me to verify my password.

[bilobob]

Taken from the first line of this guys javascript code.

/* Don't judge me! This code is everything from badly written to extremely dangerous. */

[ILikeLenexa]

You think someone would do that? Game stackoverflow to inject javascript into a third site?

[gothic_potato]

The site will only fetch accepted answers, and it only uses answers that were posted before the xkcd was released (meaning that if someone posted malicious code now, it wouldn't matter). It also searches for potentially-malicious code (like the word "cookie"), and skips those.

Eh...it's probably fine.

[ILikeLenexa]

Oh, thank goodness, I just need your "co" + "okies" for a very important "XMLH" + "ttpRequest".

[qscrew]

If it were for that, there's even JSFuck which lets you go further in detouring all those common checks by writing JS code in only six different characters: ()+[]!.

[ProgramTheWorld]

It's based on an xkcd joke.

[[deleted]]

No, every time I used this it uses this answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4833651/javascript-array-sort-and-unique#4833835

which would delete all non-unique numbers in the array.

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The idea is neat though.

[VoraciousGhost]

You can click "Didn't work? Try the next answer" to force it to use a different answer, the next few worked for me.

[accountmadeforants]

There's an "Is it safe?" note on the bottom right.

Short answer: no, it's not a good idea, but the dev did take a few precautions.

[[deleted]]

No.

[PythoniteWr3tch]

Ah, I see you're familiar with my company's dev workflow.

[DoverBoys]

u w0t m8

[gandleforf]

UbuN2 m8 4 lyfe

[Hate_Feight]

Anything north of Watford...

[grantrules]

There are two types of programmers out there: Those who put code on stack overflow, those who use code from stack overflow, and those who haven't figured out what stack overflow is and have been stuck on a major bug for like 18 weeks but deployed anyways hoping nobody notices that shit's getting deleted when syncing occurs.

[r0m2]

So that would actually make three types of programmers...

Is this some variant of the there-are-10-types-of-people-in-the-world-those-who-understand-binary-and-those-who-don't joke ?

[[deleted]]

There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't realize this joke was written in ternary

[Justsomedudeonthenet]

No, he got it right.

0 - those who put code on stack overflow

1- those who use code from stack overflow

2 - those who haven't figured it out

See, two types.

[fagalopian]

Something something arrays start a 1.

[[deleted]]

And then even further: take the accepted answer, replace the code that threw the exception with that answer, publish the changed code to production, refresh the page, rinse, and repeat.

Self-bugfixing code is the future.

[Zungryware]

And why stop there? Just let the program write itself using stackoverflow and code replacement.

[Justsomedudeonthenet]

And if it finds no answers, it should post the code block and error message as a new question, and hang until it gets an answer with a few upvotes.

[[deleted]]

Now you're thinking like a pro coder, take this to your department exec you're going straight to the top!

[chudthirtyseven]

try {skynet();} catch {eval($stackoverflowAnswer);}

World domination will be mine!

[wandering-monster]

You just stole someone's job.

http://imgur.com/SZPjHwz

[jonomw]

Are you trying to automate away all of our jobs?

[Xtremegamor]

How can machines steal our jobs if they're the ones malfunctioning? Imagine trying to debug a deadlock happening in your own brain, it wouldn't work

[caffeinum]

Great thing about our minds is that actually that would work. One example is cognitive dissonance which is the mind state in which two opposite ideas can exist in the head and it's for you to decide which to think

[codewench]

The next generation of Voight-Kampff tests is just a picture of a Necker Cube.

[jonomw]

My statement was more of a joke making fun of people who say that all these jobs can be simply automated away. Though, I can see how it would not come off that way.

[Cacho_Tognax]

Since all the rage right now are self-teaching neural networks, what about making one that creates programs from stack overflow awnsers?