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I haven't looked much if this exists, but a name generator script would be very handy. Ask for a couple of parameters, what does it do, what does it affect, etc

by jjeaff 7y ago

I haven't looked much if this exists, but a name generator script would be very handy. Ask for a couple of parameters, what does it do, what does it affect, etc. And then it spits out a name. Would be a great ide extension and could have a config file that checks into the source code to help keep things consistent.

geocar 7y ago
I would love to have a mechanical naming czar! I'm aware of https://hoogle.haskell.org/ https://hoogle.haskell.org/ which is kindof like that: You give it a type description and it tells you all the functions that have that type. Unfortunately, it's not actually that useful in my experience. I once saw a sublime text plugin that someone could insert a description of a function and it'd automatically pull in code snippets from stackoverflow. It was cute, but I have serious reservations for some of the code I've seen in stackoverflow. I imagine someone somewhere might have tried hooking up GPT-2 (or something) to a JIRA database of user stories and the diffs, and I'd be curious to know how that works.
darkcha0s 7y ago
You are seriously suggesting breaking my coding workflow, to open a popup just to give me a half-assed suggestion I will probably dismiss anyways? Visual studio wants your location
throwaway15392 7y ago
I think what would be more handy is a standardization of how APIs should be written across many different domains, to make modules more interoperable. The result of conceptualizing and abstracting different domains is in as much of a Wild West as it’s ever going to be today. This reminds me I wanted to research about the theory of marketplaces to understand better how can we improve the market of reusable software components. By that I mean improving the process that we actually use to find and use or create and distribute reusable software components.

by jjeaff 7y ago

geocar 7y ago

I would love to have a mechanical naming czar! I'm aware of https://hoogle.haskell.org/ https://hoogle.haskell.org/ which is kindof like that: You give it a type description and it tells you all the functions that have that type. Unfortunately, it's not actually that useful in my experience. I once saw a sublime text plugin that someone could insert a description of a function and it'd automatically pull in code snippets from stackoverflow. It was cute, but I have serious reservations for some of the code I've seen in stackoverflow. I imagine someone somewhere might have tried hooking up GPT-2 (or something) to a JIRA database of user stories and the diffs, and I'd be curious to know how that works.

darkcha0s 7y ago

You are seriously suggesting breaking my coding workflow, to open a popup just to give me a half-assed suggestion I will probably dismiss anyways? Visual studio wants your location

throwaway15392 7y ago

I think what would be more handy is a standardization of how APIs should be written across many different domains, to make modules more interoperable. The result of conceptualizing and abstracting different domains is in as much of a Wild West as it’s ever going to be today. This reminds me I wanted to research about the theory of marketplaces to understand better how can we improve the market of reusable software components. By that I mean improving the process that we actually use to find and use or create and distribute reusable software components.