Questions tagged [asking-questions]
This tag is for questions specifically about the process of asking questions on Code Review; e.g. how to ask, whether specific questions are appropriate, etc.
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Does preventing exact duplicate titles makes sense here?
When editing the title of Multiple FizzBuzz from a file, I first wanted to make the title "FizzBuzz from a file" but that exact title already exists which showed an error message:
Considering our ...
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Is code ever clean enough? - Can there be too many follow-up questions?
Some posts can at times have several follow-up questions, sometimes a couple of follow-up questions on the same day.
All this brings us to the question of Can there be too many follow-up questions?
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Provide links to official style guides when writing questions
The answers to many questions tagged python on CodeReview start with or otherwise include references to PEP-0008, the official Python Style Guide. Many reviews include comments on use of whitespace (e....
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How can we work to prevent off-topic questions?
I seem to notice while browsing the questions list that there always seems to be a question or two containing some reason (almost always broken code) for it to be put on hold. From the last hour as of ...
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What is the best way to ask about distinct aspects of a project?
I have a project that I've undertaken to better understand several distinct aspects of the language and system I'm learning and am wondering what the best approach to asking about these aspects is.
I'...
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Should a warning be displayed when writing a question with no code?
On SO, if I include the words "best practice" in the title of a question, I get a message before I even submit the question warning me that the question appears subjective and may be closed.
Could we ...
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Design for a question about thread abortion and related process
I posted a question for Code Review, and other than a few comments, what I was told was that I should put actual code of the process and people were only interested in knowing that. What I really ...
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Can I use CR as an environment to foster an open source project?
Let's suppose that I have a personal project which I think might interest more people, and given my low position in the learning curve, want to make it open source.
Besides posting pieces of code in ...
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What is the take on getting older (possibly obsolete) languages reviewed?
Specifically, I want to address languages from the era of 8-bit home computing. Such languages could include:
6502 Assembly
6800 Assembly
8080 Assembly
Commodore BASIC
etc...
These languages are ...
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Will a question be downvoted for poor code?
I am kind of new to Code Review SE (I only have two questions), and am trying to understand the site. I recently came across this question with three downvotes.
For the most part, It seems that it is ...
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Can I ask the same question with a different language?
I am wondering if it would be bad to ask for the same code review, just under a different language.
For example:
Hypothetically I post a question asking for a code review of my Ruby "Hello World" ...
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Having an entire project reviewed
I have a small project I'm working on in an area I'm not comfortable with (web development). I would like someone to review my code. I can try to split it up, but I would prefer if someone looked at ...
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Why did a question about unit-testing get migrated?
I'm curious as to why this question got migrated to Stack Overflow, mostly so I can ask in the correct place in the future. It's about unit testing a functioning python module, the unit tests all ...
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Little applet for elo rating system
I have written a bit of Python code with Tkinter to make a small applet to allow people to enter game scores and keep track of their rating (using the elo rating system).
I have an initial meta-...
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Should Code Review's related questions say they "may already have your answer"?
On Stack Overflow itself it makes perfect sense to link to similar questions and say that the user might get better results from searching those results first and can likely find their problem already ...
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What makes a good question? [duplicate]
I think it would be a good idea to compile a list of guidelines on how to ask good question. What information should be present, how to structure it, etc.
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Please provide me feedback on my badly received questions
Two of my questions were down-voted as -3 and -4. I couldn't understand the problem with them. But if at-least 3 people are down-voting something is bad with them. Nobody commented or answered or ...
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Asking questions with UML diagrams instead of code [duplicate]
Can I ask a question with a UML class diagram instead of code? What about instead of some code? The kind of questions I'm interested in asking are about software architecture, not low-level coding ...
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Major bugs caught in questions
I wrote a question, but forgot to thoroughly re-test my code after I made a modification and before I posted the question. I was notified of a major bug by mjolka (thank you!) in chat, such a major ...
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Questions that are "I did this, it seems to work, how did I do?"
I've been an active member of StackOverflow for more than two years, and have a decent amount of rep on some other SE sites like Programmers, Code Golf and here. But the one type of question that ...
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Is it too easy to post your code for review?
Our current situation:
We are getting 34 questions per day
We are getting more and more unanswered questions
We are still on a mission
I feel that we multiple times per day get questions that are a ...
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Can you ask for a review on code of a self-created language? [duplicate]
If one were to create their own language and documentation for the language, could they ask for a review on code they have written in their language as long as they provided a link or inline ...
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Should comparisons of code snippets be closed as "not seeking a code review"?
I've been seeing some "A vs. B" questions for a while, and I'm not sure if they're considered on-topic for this site. Many of these questions are not asking for a review, but which code snippet is ...
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Can we rename "Ask question"?
A recent "question" (will probably be deleted when you click it) made me realize: The "Ask Question" label on Code Review can be a bit misleading here.
Code Review questions are expected to contain ...
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Is it okay to ask which snippet is considered the most clean?
Is it on-topic to ask a question with two more or less equivalent snippets, and ask which of the two snippets is considered the most clean?
The way I see it, there are four possible answers here:
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Help spot deficiencies in our Help Center
Regular participants will be familiar with procedures and practices on Code Review. For example, we have rules against
asking hypothetical questions
appending to or modifying the question after ...
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How can I ask interesting questions as a beginner?
Here at Code Review, we, the reviewers volunteering our time, are deciding to use our time to focus on improving something we found on this site. Because of this, questions must be interesting. It is ...
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Insufficient "How to ask"
As a newbie coming to CR and asking the very first question you can see
There's nothing about broken code there and many new questions seem to get closed quickly because of it.
Moreover, it names no ...
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Is it advisable to share the link of the entire project on Code Review? [duplicate]
I would like someone to review a small PHP project of mine - the entire source code of which has been uploaded on Github.
Is it advisable to share the link of the entire project here on Code Review?
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I've observed many toy/homework questions
It appears that many review requests are for toy or homework examples (e.g. FizzBuzz).
Is this observation correct or am I mistaken? If observed correctly, I have the following questions:
Is it good ...
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Does this open the door for chameleon questions?
Obj-C wrapper for OpenLDAP
The user originally posted the top half of the code there. An answer was posted.
After the answer had upvotes and a comment from the questioner (noting his appreciation ...
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Is asking for review of 3rd party code ok?
Most code people are posting here seems to be code they have written themselves. In this question the OP asked basically for a review of three 3rd party scripts.
I'm not sure that this question is a ...
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How can I improve this question?
I'm referring to this question: SQL-Server Merge Statement with .NET DataTable
I've given it a couple days to see what happened after I asked it initially. There's been very little traffic, no votes ...
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Tagging: C++ vs C
I've noticed more and more questions recently having their posts tagged with C++ both c++ and c. A couple examples that I have recently handled myself:
Karatsuba C++ implementation
Passing objects ...
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Should mostly working but a little bit broken code stay or be deleted?
I posted the question Parsing structured text in Java
At first I thought it was working, later I have found a bug in the code. Should it stay or should it be deleted?
Update: I have fixed the bug in ...
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Are we allowed to ask questions about just regular expressions?
Are we allowed to ask questions just about regular expressions?
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Stop mentioning major concerns in title
On the Ask a Question page, users are currently faced with this:
state the purpose of your code, and mention any major concerns.
I have recently started commenting on many questions with this ...
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May I ask a question about legacy code, where I don't intend to implement advice given by CR?
One of the checklist items for an on-topic question is:
Do I want feedback about any or all facets of the code?
I have considered posting old code to CR which I think would spur useful discussion ...
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Are questions that ask *not* to offer readability/style/structure advice, on topic? [duplicate]
The question in question: A platform-independent implementation of "which" in Ruby
The OP has rather specifically asked that people not talk about how to improve the readability of the code ...
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How to deal with homework questions without question? [duplicate]
The question in question (no pun intended): Cutting stock recursion
OP basically dumped the problem definition and a solution on us. There is no indication to if the code actually works, it is ...
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Questions about speed/memory comparisons
This question should be considered as an expansion discussion on the policy discussed in Should comparisons of code snippets be closed as "not seeking a code review"?
For comparative ...
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Reviewing AI based on how it performs
On Code Golf is is common to see a king-of-the-hill question where you have to implement an AI based on the rules given in the question.
So then I got to thinking - "If I developed an AI for one of ...
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My code with a small set of classes may be too much [duplicate]
I have a small set of classes that form an events system that I would very much like opinions on, but they're made up of a few classes that together amount to around 1kloc. I'm a little worried that ...
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Can we answer these Javascript/CSS3 performance questions?
I've seen that lately the amount of questions regarding performance issues when using Javascript, jQuery, CSS3, etc. has increased.
Question is: Can we actually review them?
I'm edging towards no, ...
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Can we require questions to have at least one language tag?
We are getting a low amount of questions every day which are not tagged with a language. I believe we can could prevent this if we make adding a language required.
Is there a possibility to add this ...
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Do one-liners and other narrowed-down code qualify for a code review?
Every once in a blue moon, a question gets posted (often as a new user's first post) where the OP is asking a quite specific question about very minimalistic code, for example:
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Is a question mostly pertaining to build configuration appropriate for this site?
I'm currently creating a somewhat complex Maven project (specifically, to automate this answer), and hence would like to submit it for review here - specifically, the POM and the general structure of ...
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Proper way to ask best practices questions
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/37601/how-bad-is-duplicating-a-code-block
This got closed as off-topic. I read the help center and from it I concluded that rather than present possible ...
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How should one deal with code asking "Is this correct?" when it is in fact correct?
I'm wondering what a good guideline is when dealing with questions asking (primarily or completely) about correctness. Generally this is not what Code Review is about. However, when the code is ...
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"How secure..." questions - Code Review vs. Information Security SE
Recently I have seen a whole lot of questions in the form of "How secure is this hashing", "How secure is my keygen?", "How secure is my form?".
We do have a quite popular security tag, with 159 ...
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