Elixir Tab
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SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
7 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 0 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.56.
Idea: 4 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea for showing knowledge snippets in new tabs
From 3 comments
Does anybody know if there's a generalized version of this? I'd love some way to define custom things to display on new pages. If not, I think I'll have to go fork this and…
swsieber on HNThis is a great idea. Makes you wonder though, if we could just replace all the visual advertising we see on a daily basis with knowledge snippets like these, life would be so…
NuclearTide on HNThis is a really cool idea, hope this spreads to other languages!
kanbannoman on HN
Useful extension, people want to try it
From 3 comments
Cool man, I'll be trying this out.
Toast_ on HNGot a user in me! Been working a lot in Elixir recently, and this is great. Awesome man!
urs2102 on HNAwesome, I am sold. Probably will be forking to some other things, I have been trying to learn.
ElxOthman on HN
Objections
Needs more examples of what the extension shows
From 1 comment
Sounds like an interesting idea but I think both the Github page and the Chrome extension page could benefit from more examples of what the extension shows.
krat0sprakhar on HN
Some snippets are hard to understand without context
From 1 comment
I wished there were ways to propose real examples and vote up the ones you prefer. Some of those are really hard to understand in context. Great idea on the extension though!
xutopia on HN
Requests
A generalized version to define custom snippets
From 1 comment
Does anybody know if there's a generalized version of this? I'd love some way to define custom things to display on new pages. If not, I think I'll have to go fork this and…
swsieber on HN
Support for other programming languages
From 1 comment
This is a really cool idea, hope this spreads to other languages!
kanbannoman on HN
Voting on proposed examples
From 1 comment
I wished there were ways to propose real examples and vote up the ones you prefer. Some of those are really hard to understand in context. Great idea on the extension though!
xutopia on HN
Questions
Is there a generalized version of this?
From 1 comment
Does anybody know if there's a generalized version of this? I'd love some way to define custom things to display on new pages. If not, I think I'll have to go fork this and…
swsieber on HN
Alternatives named
Anki integration suggested as an alternative use
From 2 comments
Does anybody know if there's a generalized version of this? I'd love some way to define custom things to display on new pages. If not, I think I'll have to go fork this and…
swsieber on HNAnkiTab.. excellent Idea!
elviejo on HN