Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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I Found a (Trivial) Solution to my Problem After Submitting It?
Question.
My code had a bug, the bug was an edge case that only manifested in literally one of the test cases, (I identified it by completing the problem with linear search, then downloading the test ...
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Thanking someone for a good code review
Is it appropriate to comment on a good Code Review answer to one of my posts with a "Thank you"?
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What to do when nobody answered your question [duplicate]
I'm still new to Stack Exchange. What should you do if you have an unanswered question that's been there a 12+ hours? Do you re-post the question, or just wait longer?
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Should there be a tag for Python library [requests]?
I recently asked a question where I was interested in if I used the Requests library correctly. To my surprise, when I was adding tags, I didn't see the one for this library. Googling ...
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Optimize our meta tags?
First off I should say I'm ignoring the following meta tags: beginner, homework, reinventing-the-wheel, and most with less than 100 views.
A short overview of the discussions around these tags is ...
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Found a serious bug in my question after posting it
What is the correct way to go after I found a bug in a question that I posted?
Shall I delete the question, vote to close it or flag it as off-topic?
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Are machine-learning questions a good fit for CR?
I'm aware of When are Machine Learning questions on-topic?, but I think maybe there's room for discussion regarding the machine-learning tag.
I've made a search on the ML tag (because I do not have ...
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Is it ok to post code that didn't work out as intended?
I recently tried to optimize some code by using parallel processing, putting two cores to work on the problem instead of one.
For whatever reason, it didn't work. I don't know why, but I doubt much ...
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Why did this js Fizzbuzz question get so many more views than others?
Why did this recent question: FizzBuzz in Javascript get so many views and, presumably, many more votes (than would be normal)?
My initial theory was that it contains the tags fizzbuzz and that tag ...
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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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Community Promotion Ads — 2019
2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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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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Question about “Polymorphic implementation of == with CRTP” on hold as off topic
I have a question about my Code Review Stack Exchange post: Polymorphic implementation for == with CRTP. It was put on hold as off topic stating (mainly) that the use case is theoretic or not ...
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Unnecessary comments
Should I keep my comments or remove them if they are wrong or no longer serve a purpose under an answer/question?
When I remove my comment(s), the other comments (by others) become meaningless. If ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Is it possible to get a code review of scripts while obfuscating sensitive information? [duplicate]
Namely, I wrote a Python script to handle Cloudflare-based Dynamic DNS updates for a system, but I need to obfuscate my CloudFlare creds and some API keys, for fairly obvious reasons. Would there be ...
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Should we allow answer invalidation for otherwise off-topic questions? [duplicate]
We recently had a question with un-compilable code. The question was answered and the answerer pointed out the broken code. The user has since edited the question to fix the code. It was rolled-back.
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Flagging users who select “No Action Needed” in First Posts review queue
A while back I was directed to read the accepted community wiki answer to this First Post Review question (and of course heeded the advice).
In Jamal's answer to this question about reviewing a ...
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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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Posting a question where part of the code contains a known bug
There is a particular requirement that has two versions. The first version has proven to be more challenging than the subsequent version to both describe the specification and compose; and also ...
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Closing of questions citing “off-topic” as reason where user-defined code and standardized code is clearly equivalent
See From the below javascript code snippet which one is considered to be most appropriate? [on hold]
Scenario 1:
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Code Review questions must contain code
As requested by Kaz and approved by the voters here on meta, questions asked on Code Review that do not contain code are now blocked.
I've configured this initially as a three-line minimum (or three ...
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What is immoral about reviewing someone else's code? [duplicate]
The Help Center says:
For licensing, moral, and procedural reasons, we cannot review code written by other programmers.
Can somebody explain what is immoral about reviewing someone else's code?
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What's the [api] tag for?
The taginfo for api describes what an Application Programming Interface is, but doesn't give any guidance as to what kind of question it applies to.
Given that the majority of code here is at ...
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Acceptability of questions about checking for race conditions
Is it acceptable for users to post questions in this community and have their code evaluated by others to check for race conditions? Or do these types of questions fall under the banner of 'broken ...
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Does Stack Overflow count as a third party site?
I had a question that was placed on hold with a link to this:
Can I put my code on a third party site and link to the site in my question?
The code I asked for review of was on Stack Overflow, and ...
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Is “How does this algorithm work?” a good question here?
If I have a question about the algorithm that I can't understand the logic behind, how and where should I ask the question?
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The problem with insufficient context
The new (well, not that new now) Insufficient Context close reason has a problem. People see the name and think it is about the text surrounding the code. The text context for the code. But the ...
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How do we handle stated restrictions around coding challenge sites' legalese?
I see things like the following on a certain coding challenge site:
Copyright 2009–2018 by Codility Limited. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized copying, publication or disclosure prohibited.
I ...
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Announcement: New chat room CRCQR
As some of the regulars at the SE Code Review site already noticed we have a new chat room to request and discuss question closures:
SE Code Review Close Questions room
I've setup that room due to ...
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Code Review is getting boring
Boring
I find that Code Review is getting pretty boring and unprofessional. The reason why I think this way is that many good questions about real-world problems don't get very much attention. ...
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Why do some users have HTTP response codes in their display names?
I know I could ask this in the 2nd monitor but figure this might be better here for posterity... and this site is for questions...
I noticed a while back that there are a couple users who have HTTP ...
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Does [ascii-art] mean only ASCII?
I'm looking at the ascii-art excerpt, which says:
ASCII Art is a graphic design technique that uses 93 of the 128 printable ACSII characters to create images.
Whilst this is almost true (it uses ...
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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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I broke your code, therefore your code doesn't work: NAA discussion
Let's say the OP had code like this (imagine there's actual code here, I'm just making a generalized example for meta):
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To serve, what is it to ask for review?
Food for thought.
There are times when questions come along which demonstrate a student's query, and with that comes the student's ill fated attempt to pose an "on topic" question without much ...
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Accepting without upvoting
What could be the reason for accepting an answer but not upvoting it?
Situations:
Accepting own answer - ok, no upvote on self-answers
OP not having 15 reputation cannot upvote. I think that OP shold ...
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Post was put on hold stating that code is not working
I have a question about my Code Review Stack Exchange post: Filling-values-for-dictionary-of-dictionaries
Post was put on hold stating that code is not working but it's working and I had posted the ...
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Why is my SPOJ question receiving downvotes?
SPOJ- CPP: Gap in output
What is the purpose of so many downvotes?
And what does it mean that the code should be "embedded directly"?
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Removing a question I don't like anymore
I recently posted a question which I think is decent enough, but I have since decided that the code in question is flawed/ has some issues. It is not that the code is buggy or incorrect which would be ...
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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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Code Review's updated site theme is now live for everyone
Update - the theme and layout is now live for everyone.
Thanks for your feedback in this process. If there's additional feedback, please feel free to add to the answers below.
As part of ...
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Posting code that violates Google's TOS
For a quick project, I thought it would be cool to make a crawler that goes over Google results, finding and recording sites that are scraping and impersonating Stack Exchange sites.
The problem is, ...
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Wouldn't it be better to edit this question instead of closing it?
This question:
Frequency Queries hackerrank
… got closed for this reason:
Code not implemented or not working as intended …
… as the author wrote:
However, on hackerrank it says the wrong ...
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JavaScript concepts applying to JSX posts
Many posts are tagged with jsx as well as javascript and sometimes ecmascript-6, but then those latter tags are often removed by others.
While I understand that jsx is not syntactically valid ...
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How to prevent people from answering off-topic questions?
Assume a person is asking about their broken code and someone suffering from FGITW-syndrome immediately answers it. Then maybe the answer and/or even the question gets upvoted.
This completely ...
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Please reopen “Trick circumvents [position: sticky] restriction to parent”?
Trick circumvents [position: sticky] restriction to parent
My question was put on hold. Please vote to reopen it!
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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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If porting code, should I also post the original?
Is it on-topic (or acceptable practice) here to post code written in one language, and ported code in another for review ? I am learning scala and in doing so I am translating some code I wrote (in C++...
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Why is my second “Form maximum date/time from some digits” question being down voted?
My question here is getting down votes:
Code Vita 7: Form the maximum possible date time in the MM/DD HH:MM format using any eight of twelve given single digits
which is a follow up to my previous ...
