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Apsionon Tab Launchpad a Chrome extension for doing search awesomer

I am using it and loving it. Disclaimer - I helped design it :)

Apsionon Which editor/IDE do you use and why?

I use IntelliJ IDEA because that is what I used at work.

Apsionon Which editor/IDE do you use and why?

StackOverflow has an extensive survey which includes which IDE used. (no details given as to why) http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

I though it was weird to see Notepad++ at the top so I ran my own survey. https://codepilot.ai/editor-survey-thanks/

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

This time with a video explainer. Any feedback is appreciated

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

Hey - I now have a video https://youtu.be/9EPaBi1_pwo It explains in more detail how "Code Seeker" could work. And I included a couple of your suggestions. Hope you can take a look and give me some additional feedback. Thanks

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

I will post additional info here. Probably next week.

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

At this point just validating that the feature should be built. So nothing yet.

I will be posting some more details, videos... Which will give you more detail of how we think it should work.

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

The house analogy makes sense - I need to research Smalltalk and Prolog Checking out the video - thanks

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

This is great - checking out Hoogle now.

I love abstractions, although at times they become a barrier to edge use cases. I guess the art is determining how much to abstract.

Perhaps I am oversimplifying the way I was imagining the search. In my mind it could simply be a pattern match (including special characters) and return the results. Then the zoom in/out capability would allow you to determine if the result is applicable.

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

Agreed - copy and paste can definitely be problematic.

DRY typically is discussed as it relates to a single project. What are your thoughts on this? Code reused across projects or repos is not the same. We can and should have duplicated code but why write it from scratch? For a simple example if I always want to have an Avatar in a navbar, why not make it easy to find and reuse in another project.

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

We though we may be able to actually show the license type as well. However keeping it simple to start with and just track new ideas/improvements.

The Code Seeker feature would not actually apply changes, it will allow you to import into whichever IDE you are using and the mechanism or VCS you currently use will still apply. Does this make sense or am I not understanding the Control matters part?

Indexing and Searchability are going to be interesting to implement. I use IntelliJ and Rubymine and at times the indexing is too heavy handed and they are only indexing the current project.

Apsionon Most of the code you write, has probably been written before. Why not reuse it?

:) not a product yet vetting an idea but haters could identify real issues

Apsionon Ask HN: Trying to get back into the tech industry and need advice

What specifically are you looking to get into? Tech is pretty broad.