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Great idea, I like how quickly basic questions like 'javascript combine array' gives me instant code snippets that tell me I was looking for the .concat opertor
by swagasaurus-rex 7y ago
Great idea, I like how quickly basic questions like 'javascript combine array' gives me instant code snippets that tell me I was looking for the .concat opertor.
I wonder if there is a way to have a confidence in the answers and to redirect you to the good old fashioned Google if there doesn't appear to be relevant info. I also understand this is among the most challenging problems facing Computer Science today.
- marcmaia 7y agoThat is a great point to score the confidence the search mechanism has in the answers, either because it couldn't match the query adequately, or because the answers don't have high standard quality. If the confidence is not high, we could at least warn about that, or maybe help the user enhance the query.
- w-m 7y agoIt's hard competing with Google, the Crokerage answers to the example they use ("how to remove an element from an array" in Java) gives me ArrayList<char> charList = new ArrayList<char>(0); for (int i= 0; i < b.length; i++) { if (b[i] == condition) { charList.Add(b[i]); } } charList.toArray(); in Crokerage and array = ArrayUtils.removeElement(array, element) in Google/Stacksnippet. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes that Google have a way of determining the confidence in the answers and have some algorithm that is able to reliably give a code answer. I'm sure they'll immediately put this in their snippet then, removing the need to click the StackOverflow links any more.