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RunThis - Let your readers run snippets of code directly from your blog.

23 points by kuszi 17y ago

briansmith 17y ago
Cool idea. For this to be really useful, it needs to be able to define a snippit (e.g. a function), and then let the user type his own code (e.g. an application of that function) to see the results. Otherwise, if everything is static on the page, you could just pre-calculate the results when building the page.
avinashv 17y ago
Clever idea. Pretty impressive language support and I like the way the output is presented with some useful meta information. I would love to see the team at Github integrate this into the http://gist.github.com http://gist.github.com platform. I assume the results here are cached, right? This would obviously get very resource-intensive on even a marginally popular blog.
- pook 17y ago
  How about integrating this into a collaborative programming quiz site? Imagine if TopCoder used this. The idea: people sign onto teams, then collaboratively hack at a problem in real-time, in public. You could pop some popcorn and watch their editing sessions, cheer them on xor scream at them for bugs...
- kuszi 17y ago
  Please have a look at http://www.gistdoit.com/ http://www.gistdoit.com/ as a Ideone+Gist mashup example.
- Semiapies 17y ago
  Doesn't look like the results are cached.
mcherm 17y ago
When I tried running it everything timed out. Did it work for anyone else?
- kuszi 17y ago
  for me it seems to run fine now.
alttab 17y ago
If it sends the code back to the server to get executed, I could see a slew of interesting security opportunities here. I wouldn't exactly allow someone with Firebug and working knowledge of C run executable code on my server. Cool idea! Hopefully I'm misinformed about the security thing.
- pook 17y ago
  http://ideone.com/pevus2IP# http://ideone.com/pevus2IP# Seems like they have some measure of security. edit: http://ideone.com/fAKNPIh2 http://ideone.com/fAKNPIh2 pwd returns my dir as /home/APiDcF. http://ideone.com/ZY3tZ93M http://ideone.com/ZY3tZ93M echo $SHELL returns /bin/false an ls command indicates this dir only contains a prog.sh. http://ideone.com/lJpkGwHV http://ideone.com/lJpkGwHV catting it doesn't work.
Deestan 17y ago
Does this give you anything that a pre-calculation of output during blog post upload doesn't give you?
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23 points by kuszi 17y ago

Cool idea. For this to be really useful, it needs to be able to define a snippit (e.g. a function), and then let the user type his own code (e.g. an application of that function) to see the results. Otherwise, if everything is static on the page, you could just pre-calculate the results when building the page.

avinashv 17y ago

Clever idea. Pretty impressive language support and I like the way the output is presented with some useful meta information. I would love to see the team at Github integrate this into the http://gist.github.com http://gist.github.com platform. I assume the results here are cached, right? This would obviously get very resource-intensive on even a marginally popular blog.

pook 17y ago
How about integrating this into a collaborative programming quiz site? Imagine if TopCoder used this. The idea: people sign onto teams, then collaboratively hack at a problem in real-time, in public. You could pop some popcorn and watch their editing sessions, cheer them on xor scream at them for bugs...
kuszi 17y ago
Please have a look at http://www.gistdoit.com/ http://www.gistdoit.com/ as a Ideone+Gist mashup example.
Semiapies 17y ago
Doesn't look like the results are cached.

mcherm 17y ago

When I tried running it everything timed out. Did it work for anyone else?

kuszi 17y ago
for me it seems to run fine now.

alttab 17y ago

If it sends the code back to the server to get executed, I could see a slew of interesting security opportunities here. I wouldn't exactly allow someone with Firebug and working knowledge of C run executable code on my server. Cool idea! Hopefully I'm misinformed about the security thing.

pook 17y ago
http://ideone.com/pevus2IP# http://ideone.com/pevus2IP# Seems like they have some measure of security. edit: http://ideone.com/fAKNPIh2 http://ideone.com/fAKNPIh2 pwd returns my dir as /home/APiDcF. http://ideone.com/ZY3tZ93M http://ideone.com/ZY3tZ93M echo $SHELL returns /bin/false an ls command indicates this dir only contains a prog.sh. http://ideone.com/lJpkGwHV http://ideone.com/lJpkGwHV catting it doesn't work.

Deestan 17y ago

Does this give you anything that a pre-calculation of output during blog post upload doesn't give you?

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