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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Are explicit words allowed in source code?
I have just posted a question about an explicit song checker here. I decided not to include the explicit words.
Question:
Are explicit words allowed in a programs source code? If so, is there a ...
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Disambiguate 'rop' tag
I see rop was recently added, to refer to "Railway-oriented programming" (which I have to admit was new to me, not having come across the term when I was using functional Scheme).
However, the ...
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Out-dated duplicates definition in Help Center
We recently had a discussion in The 2nd Monitor about a post being closed as a duplicate of this post. I had flagged it based on a Rule I found in the Help Center:
This question has been asked ...
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Caesar Cipher in C++
Come on people!!!!!
Caesar Cipher in C++
Closing this as of-topic is ridiculous. It compiles it runs it works (for specific input). Yes it has flaws but this code is basically 99.9999999% complete ...
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Code review of YouTube video
I have a YouTube playlist that I have created showing my iterative approach on a subject ("C# CUSTOM Script Language Creation").
I know that sites like this one have some limitations as to what is ...
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Why is my self answer being downvoted?
I have shown that my code works. I have corrected people that they were wrong when they said my code does not create valid Sudoku. I'm awaiting valid reasons why my answer is being downvoted.
If you ...
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Why am I getting downvotes for not working code when it's working code?
I've become a little frustrated with Code Review. They said my code does not output a valid Sudoku when it in fact does. Is it that people are confused of my code and don't realize that it's in fact ...
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An edit of mine was rolled back and the question locked
I asked this question:
Templated division by a power of 2
and did not include an #include directive before my actual code. An answer noted the ...
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Is {language} on-topic?
When looking to see if a niche language is on-topic on Code Review it's fairly hard to tell if it is or isn't.
The help centre only says "code":
Code Review is a question and answer site for ...
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Questions should not be locked when off-topic comments are moved to chat for the first time
I my opinion, it's to early to lock a question when moving off-topic comments to the chat for the first time.
It's understandable when it repeats two or three times... and it certainly did in the ...
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Policy regarding “flooding” Code Review with questions
There seem to be a few users which "flood" Code Review with questions recently (2 to 4 questions in rapid succession).
They often present relatively small pieces of code, allegedly from homework, ...
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How should we handle edits to answers to make code congruent with the language of the question?
This is related to What are our answer editing guidelines?, but about an edit with a brief comment:
Switched to python.
To me that makes sense, since the code looked like a mix of python and a c-...
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Create Tag Clean Code
My reputation is too low to create the tag clean-code. I really miss this tag since clean code is a major aspect of code reviews (just nowadays more than in the ...
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Asker deletes question after posting an answer
Yesterday I answered this question. Today when on my profile I noticed my answer was deleted.
This was not a DMCA takedown, and so this meta and this one don't help in this situation.
This meta, ...
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Should I continue answering a frequent poster that consistently accepts my answers?
Over the past month or two a user has been frequently posting questions and I, for want of a real life, have been posting reviews to most of them.
However the user seams to be predominately accepting ...
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Should a question poster include the Boost Software License?
In an edit to this question the poster added the Boost Software License text. I think the code subject to the license is in the poster's GitHub repo and not included in the question (it is only ...
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Is an answer that doesn't provide any code review, only how to unit test on-topic?
I ran across this answer which gives no code review feedback only how to write unit tests. If there were some unit tests provided, then they would be fair game for a code review also. In this case it ...
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The ethics of answering a homework question before it is handed in
I just read through a question that wasn't tagged as homework, however, it asked if it was good enough to show the professor. I added the homework tag and a comment that they shouldn't post the ...
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Merge example code, stub code and insufficient context reasoning into one?
When expanding the guide to wonderland, I'm trying to explain what example code, stub code and context are.
When trying to explain why example code is off-topic all I can think of is something like:
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Should I ask architectural questions on CodeReview?
In a scenario when I have lots of code or even when I don't have much yet, but the sole problem concerns the code architecture or design pattern etc. should I then ask such question?
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Do we have a blurry scope?
When building the base of 'the guide to wonderland', I've looked through the scope and site-policy tags. But I don't really know what the difference is, and I'm unsure why a significant amount of them ...
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Can we have a guide to wonderland? (includes v1)
Request
Can we have a 'guide to wonderland' meta.
'Wonderland' is all our rules which mostly consists of lots of different rabbit holes.
Rationale
When I started on Code Review I spent a good ...
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Knowledge-based authentication using Domain-driven Design belongs to Software Engineering
I find the question Knowledge-based authentication using Domain-driven Design in C# should be moved to Software Engineering because the only code that OP has posted is clearly hypothetical, OP even ...
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April Fools' Joke background is bugged
If you check a website, like, Ask Ubuntu, you have the following background:
However, on Code Review, you have the following:
Would be nice if the background was the same, nice, tiled version :(
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Collecting good comments on Unanswered Questions into a Community Wiki answer
While looking through the list of unanswered questions I found some similar to this one, where the comments provide some well thought insights into the code as well as suggestions for improvement.
In ...
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When is explaining code to its author on topic?
The question Python: My program is unable to perform addition correctly which asked for an explanation as to why the code was buggy was closed as off-topic; I don't know about the last two close ...
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What is “best to the author's knowledge”?
The question has been put on hold with the reason code not implemented or not working as intended.
It is a curious case: in fact, the code is implemented, and does work as intended. The OP just didn'...
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Should I answer my own question with the improved code?
More to the point, should I delete this answer? I went through the help center pretty thoroughly and searched on here on Meta and couldn't really find anything that answers that question.
The answer ...
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Hot Network Questions Policy
As of recently, moderators have the ability to remove a CR question from the HNQ list.
There are times when the hotness formula selects a question that a site would rather not have featured. Up ...
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Proposal to clarify “on-topic” help page
The on-topic help page for Code Review is already fairly clear, but I would edit the following bullet point to make it clearer:
Best practices and design pattern usage
With the current ...
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Does a question with (a lot of) OP response to a posted review qualify for a rollback?
I'm not really sure whether this question where OP has added a lot of feedback about one of the reviews actually qualifies for a rollback.
The code is not changed and OP also hasn't added any ...
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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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25 at twenty-five!
As well as reaching a personal landmark, it's also a site landmark when I became the 25th member to hit 25k reputation yesterday (narrowly beaten to the line by two others - you know who you are).
I ...
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Should we close a question of a non existing user? [duplicate]
There is this question in haskell that was originally posted on Stack Overflow but got migrated.
The thing is, the user doesn't appear to exist or has been banned. It seems to me that the post will ...
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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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I found a (trivial) solution to my problem after submitting it
About Counting primes in a range whose digits are all prime.
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 ...
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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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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 ...
