Timeline for Are vectorization requests on-topic?
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| Apr 20, 2018 at 23:53 | comment | added | Raystafarian | Yeah, maybe we should be asking that | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg Mod | @Raystafarian The question we should be asking is if that's the way we want the site to go. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 10:35 | comment | added | Raystafarian | @SimonForsberg that's my point, I wouldn't want to leave that either, but sometimes it seems that's the way the site leans | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 8:38 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg Mod | @Raystafarian If the difference between an off-topic question and an on-topic question is as simple as editing the pure-english part that the OP most likely haven't given very much thought, should we then tell the OPs "Sorry, you are asking for how to change your code - if you change it to <some other formulation> it would be on-topic."? That's not a comment I am willing to write. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 3:25 | comment | added | Raystafarian | I think you're right though - it's pretty pedantic. But, I think that's a different thing altogether - "this loop is slow, how can I speed it up" vs "How can I make this recursive?" That does seem to matter here. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 21:48 | comment | added | rolfl Mod | It is no different from "I need the same thing but object-oriented".... | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 21:48 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg Mod | @rolfl And how is that any different from "I need the same thing but object-oriented?" and where is this line that determines whether specific-refactoring questions are on-topic or not? | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 21:46 | comment | added | rolfl Mod | This specific question does not ask for any code review. It uses the code as a "spec", and says "I need the same thing but vectorized". It does not want any form of review on the code given in the post. In fact, it ends: "Here is a working example using a for loop .... How can I vectorize this problem?" | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 21:43 | comment | added | rolfl Mod | We need to separate out the issue of on-topic from the issue of tag misuse. It's hard to treat them together. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg Mod | @rolfl A lot of questions currently fails the "any or all facets of the code" and yet are not closed. How does this question differ from "How can I make this code more object-oriented"? | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 21:06 | comment | added | rolfl Mod | In this case, the question is off-topic because it fails the "any or all facets of the code".... the question could be made on-topic by removing the request to vectorize the scalar code, and the tag abuse could be resolved by removing the vectorization tag. Editing the question could perhaps bring it on topic again, but the change is too radical to present it as the OP's original post. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 20:58 | history | answered | Simon ForsbergMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |