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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Where do high-level architecture and design questions go?
The FAQ states this:
your question is not about …
Higher-level architecture and design of software systems
So, where should a high-level design question go?
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Are practical user-created languages suitable for a tag creation?
I recently created a language, and was wondering (As many others may be) if a user is allowed to create a tag for their language and post a few example questions. The following things should be ...
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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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The Code Review/Programmers/Stack Overflow hot potato
I don't want to cross-post on all metas, so I chose Code Review.
This is the current hot potato.
So I'm starting to notice that questions are now getting kicked around between sites because each ...
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Requesting a comparative review of own code with third-party code
A user recently posted this question which-set-of-code-is-more-accurate where they ask for a comparative review between their code and code written by a third-party, hosted on GitHub. My question is ...
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Can I ask a question to review an FAQ written on a third-party site?
I wrote an FAQ on a third-party website related to Delphi and thread-protection of objects. I need some feedback if this content is adequate or not. I was wondering can I ask a question on Code Review ...
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How should I include resources (images, videos, audio, etc) in questions?
I know my code doesn't have to be complete.
However, in my specific case I have a project where I'd like to focus on performance improvements.
Some optimizations are obvious,
where others require ...
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Given CR's question title policy, how to title a second question about the same program?
Originally asked in 2nd Monitor
If we're asking a second CR question involving the same software, is it acceptable to give it nearly the same title? What is best practice for naming these questions?
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What to do about "It's asking for more details"?
For a while now we've had "Clippy", which among other things has support for detecting when there's a lot of code posted but not a lot of description.
The feature is nice and comes with good ...
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Do questions require specific problems, or are general reviews on-topic?
I have read; the Tour, What not to ask and How to ask a good question. I am unsure whether questions should specify specific problems, or if I should specify parts of the code where improvement is ...
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Is it okay to ask questions about algorithm help?
I have code that solves the "Traveling Salesman" problem using "Kruskal's algorithm" for a code competition site.
The code run and generates the correct result, but has O(n3) complexity. I am not ...
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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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How do I properly write a question that involves third-party libraries?
I am preparing to submit a small OpenGL program for review. I've included some source files from this GitHub repo to handle some image stuff I don't want to deal with. I'm not asking for a review of ...
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Good question, but OP didn't know how to ask it?
In Calculating Julian dates, the author asks a question that doesn't make sense:
Refactor this code so that I don't have to insert the parameters any time I need to use one of the functions.
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Asking for comparison of design of two code snippets giving same functionality
I had asked for the review of the part of a jQuery and as per the answer I made changes in the file. Now after making the changes (mainly moving from triggers to functions) I am not so sure whether I ...
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Are questions on design only requiring minimal code off topic?
I asked this question which someone has flagged as off topic, referencing a question that referred to pseudo code as a reason. My question is in regards to the overall design and not changes to how ...
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Good format to post code for review
I have a project that I used to try out in-memory databases. After fighting it for a few days, I'm code blind and need to have it reviewed. I haven't been on this particular site much (I'm well ...
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Is it okay to post a series of exercises massively?
This website seems particularly interesting for users working on a book (like SICP or K&R) or any other series of exercises (like ProjectEuler), especially if they're working on their own and ...
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How much context is the required minimum?
This question got sparked by a recent discussion in the 2nd Monitor about this question: Golang Map-Reduce Master - Channels.
The problem is: How much context is needed to actually review the code in ...
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How to get feedback over multiple solutions of a particular exercise of a book?
I am self studying C++ from Robert Lafore's OOP in C++. I am solving the exercise questions of chapter-3 loop and decisions. For the first question(say X) I've written three different codes using ...
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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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Is it okay to post questions that don't contain a full program/library?
For example, say I wanted to ask a question about memory efficiency regarding two versions of a structure I have in a specific language, but I'm only concerned about that one section of the program. ...
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Asking questions on evolved code
Sometimes I have a question on a specific class, piece of code, etc. I post the code, get some feedback and make changes as I see necessary. I then may add extra features to the code and it continues ...
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Put on-hold and off topic 2 time
I have a question about my Code Review Stack Exchange post: Driver for Sensor payload Decoder
I have been trying to get some suggestions on the code which I have written after learning about drivers. ...
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Is asking a question about doing something a different way on topic here?
I recently asked a question on StackOverflow and eventually ended up self answering it. The solution I came up with is, in my eyes, a bit of a hack.
Is a question ...
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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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Codeblock detection
The idea jumped at me after reviewing two close votes in a row (granted, from the same user) that were homework assignments without any code in it.
Since a question that has no code in it (or one ...
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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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Multiple related question titles
I am creating a programming language, Linny, and have asked two questions (First Question Here, Second Question Here). As I continue to improve the language, I intend on asking more questions to ...
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How about including a small amount of example code in a large framework?
I am about to upload a fairly large project of mine, a very flexible component-entity-system. More precisely it's a framework for a CES. It consists of 22 files, ~1000 lines of code and 20000 ...
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Review one-by-one feature?
I am writing a library. It is mostly ready, but there are known bugs and ToDo stuff (including for example missing const specifiers for member functions which do ...
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Should Code Review improve the new-question Title hint?
I would like to suggest a UX improvement
for new users, so they're less likely
to encounter edits / pushback from mods.
1. Summarize the problem
Code Review posters are typically new users.
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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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What makes a CSS question opinion based or not?
Since CSS is about the aesthetical layout of a web page, I guess it's easy to ask opinion based questions.
I guess that asking about reusability of some CSS code would not be opinion-based.
On the ...
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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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How should really big code challenge submissions be reviewed? [duplicate]
As far as I am aware, a question consisting of a really big codebase is generally off-topic here, as our answerers are simply not able to put so much effort in it.
I'd like to talk about a special ...
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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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Is a question on topic if the code works locally but errors when submitted to a coding site? [duplicate]
This is about a recently posted question: Codejam 2018 - Getting confusing runtime error
The OP claims it works for him locally, but generates a Runtime Error on the Google Code Jam website itself.
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Testing box when asking questions
Would it be possible to have an overt request, perhaps even in its own box, that the Asker provide information about their testing process.
Obviously wording up for dispute, but something like:
"How ...
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How can I improve this question about asyncio?
I recently asked this question on Code Review which was ill-received and got 4 close votes for being off-topic. I believe the main problem to be that I used a dummy function for a third party API ...
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How to get more attention to my question? [duplicate]
Let me start off by saying I have already read: How can I make my question get more attention? Because of reading that I have edited my question using the linked post to include more description etc.
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Is it appropriate to ask for review on an entire GitHub repo?
I have a Python application that I created a while back and I'm hoping to have someone with more Python experience than me look over the entire project and let me know if both the structure of the ...
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How many questions with same script can I ask, if code not only merged reviews but adds new functionality [duplicate]
How many questions with same script can I ask, if code not only merged reviews but adds new functionality?
Can I submit part of code(fully working part with new code) together with full code or ...
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Should I ask a separate question?
This examples applies for web mainly, but could apply for other stuff also.
Let's say I develop a web plugin that has both JavaScript code and CSS.
Should I post one question to review the ...
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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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Non-HTTPS, wrong hostname links in sidebar
The sidebar on https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/ask links to http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/129598. Visiting this ...
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"How To Ask" text should link to help center, not faq
Similar to my question here, Code Review's "How To Ask" text should link to the help center, rather than the FAQ:
Interestingly, CR's Meta seems to be more up to date than SO's:
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How should I ask this big question?
I am currently working on one of my first projects with Python and my first project with PyQT. I would like to post this as a question, to see if there are any improvements I can make.
The project is ...
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What does a piece of code need to satisfy to be a "real project" by itself?
Currently, the FAQ provides the following guidelines:
Code Review - Stack Exchange is for sharing code from projects you are working on for peer review.
You should only ask practical, answerable ...
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Can I ask about my CloudFormation infrastructure template?
I have a template for some infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation that I'd like reviewed. However, I'm not sure if it's on-topic here; it's YAML that's describing infrastructure, not a program per se....
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