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Microsoft and HackerRank Add a Live Code Editor Into Bing
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft's Bing search engine now includes a live code editor, allowing programmers to edit and execute snippets of example code and see the results in real-time. HackerRank announced the new educational tool on their blog, calling it "a streamlined alternative" to Stack Overflow's sites and programming sites, and sharing a video of the new feature providing results for the search "quick sort Java". "In addition to learning how a certain algorithm/code is written in a given language, users will also be able to check how the same solution is constructed in a range of other programming languages too," says Bing's Group Engineering Manager for UX Features, "providing a Rosetta-stone model for programming languages."
Rosetta code does http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ro... exactly this. It is freely licensed under the GNU FDL.
Microsoft just wants you to hand over your code, train their AI, and then live from the results of the AI. Similar to how google's "map creator", where your "creation" (the google map) is owned by google, all rights reserved.
I'm okay with the statistics based stuff google is doing for its search results, but if these companies want people to work for them, they should hire them, or they should release the results for free as well.
Otherwise its the same kind of arrogance where nestle goes into some indian community that lives perfectly fine, builds a well that's deeper than any other wells, and which dries up all already existing wells, and now starts selling the inhabitants their own water.