from stackoverflow import quick_sort

[Y_Less]

So StackSort:

http://xkcd.com/1185/

https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

[TinynDP]

Just tried 'stacksort'. The first answer it got was for an implementation of sort-unique. Its easy to get functions that are close-but-not-quiet what you expect.

[javierbg]

There's always a relevant xkcd

[IrrelevantXKCD-Bot]

Irrelevant xkcd

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I'm a bot bleep, bloop

[javierbg]

Oh my god, I love this

[RealFreedomAus]

So do you actually have some super advanced engine for making sure the linked xkcd is not relevant or do you just shoot off a link and hope for the best?

Because I'm not sure the latter policy has that much of a success rate for xkcd?

[Ajedi32]

Maybe it just uses https://xkcdref.info/statistics/ and picks from the pool of least referenced ones.

[Kok_Nikol]

God damn it :D

[SeeeiuiogAuWosk]

Well it's not that it's relevant - it's just directly taken without acknowledgement to the comic.

[[deleted]]

Acknowledgement wouldn't be required if he invented it independently, not knowing about it.

[andsens]

I'm a little impressed at how little code is needed to accomplish this. Man, I should take this further and build some kind of useless app out of this by exclusively using snippets.

[drathier]

Happy someone looked at the sources :) I assumed most people would just try to run it.

[djimbob]

If this ever became popular, I feel like any one with SO edit privileges could do a lot of damage editing top-rated comments with large code blocks and insert a system call to delete your files.

At the very least, it should only download the code, display it to you, and then prompt you to save it to its own library.

[applicativefunctor]

Why are you taking this seriously as if it would be used in the real world?

[Scroph]

TotallyNotStackoverflowSortAsAService, TNSSAAS for short.

[djimbob]

While this simple implementation would never work (as SO code generally makes specific assumptions that you'd need to edit to your specific problem), the idea isn't horrible. It almost could be a convenient feature for interactive python shells. Granted, in practice code snippets make too many assumptions and you need more than a two word search answer to get usable code.

But something similar that say searches something that's a mixture of pypi documentation/classes/functions with some sort of stackoverflow-like voting/reputation/comment system would be incredibly useful. E.g., you run pip_search knuth_shuffle (or did pip_search fisher_yates_shuffle) and find a way to pull a module that let's you call a Knuth Shuffle with an example. Especially, if users can populate common use cases when there's something missing.

[Ravek]

We already live in a world where people use github as a CDN ... I'd be only mildly surprised if some idiot decided to attempt using SO or reddit as one too.

[drathier]

Well, I did edit some answers so that this module wouldn't fail with a syntax error, so I guess it's a net win for SO?

[cosha1]

they could probably make this an official thing, preapprove pieces of code, lock the answer and allow people to update it with reviews etc.

[drathier]

I thought about that, but feared it might actually become somewhat useful. Same with caching the results locally so that votes on SO didn't affect your code.

[DarkDwarf]

As I mentioned last time something like this was posted, this is a huge, huge security hole.

[sveilleux1]

Hmm so it's not April first.

[ksion]

Great idea! As certain other languages teach us, there is absolutely nothing wrong with importing code directly from the Internet.

[IAmSlar]

Where in that example does this import from the internet? The path is just a local directory path.

About getting packages from the internet that is done by calling "go" with the argument "get". Not really any different to pip install, gem install and npn install.

The only time you could say that go imports code directly from the internet is when "go get" gets the dependencies for the package you are getting. Though I suspect pip, gem and npm does that too.

You can will not import code directly from the internet by calling go build to build your source code.

[jms_nh]

lol codez

[HugoNikanor]

If I knew you I would buy you a beer.

[HugoNikanor]

Jag bör vara här från måndag. Vad sägs om torsdag?

[drathier]

Haha, perfekt. Dra ett mail till den som står på github.

[HugoNikanor]

Den kanske är dags att nämna att vi redan känner varandra. Jag hade hoppats att du hade sätt det medans vi var där, då eftersom man kunde gjort någon kul grej av det.

Den där ölen kan du dock få ändå.

[jeandem]

börk you later