Questions tagged [scope]
Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why.
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Is undefined behavior (for C/C++ code) off-topic here?
This site states that correctness in unanticipated situations is explicitly on-topic here.
If you have a working piece of code from your project and are looking for open-ended feedback in the ...
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Seeking project wide input rather than modification of individual pieces of code [duplicate]
Does Code Review allow for posting (or linking to) entire projects?
I'm not sure if this helps at all, but in my case, I am not looking for generic input, but rather I have a specific question about ...
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Missing Review Context on stand alone script
My question has been closed for Missing Review Context. I feel like I've had no support or explanation from the community.
The reason why it was closed is out of context.
This is a script that works ...
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Are sanity checks allowed?
There are times when I have written code that looks insane when I step back from it. It is during those times where I might need a sanity check. So, is asking for a sanity check allowed?
For example, ...
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Are “review and guide me” on topic?
I am writing a pooled memory management. It works to some degree. You can allocate and deallocate
but it is missing some crucial parts like avoiding/reducing fragmentation and safety checks.
I ...
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Are questions mostly unrelated to the presented code on-topic?
So we had an argument whether this question is on topic:
RESTful movie shop
I see this question as off-topic although it seems to satisfy most rules.
There's code. It works. It's real...
But the ...
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Why can we not ask for the best practice of code?
Good code reviews are the bar that all of us should strive for. They
cover common and easy to follow best practices that any team can get
started with, while ensuring high-quality and helpful ...
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Is GraphQL Reviewable?
This question was posted recently, and presents a GraphQL schema for review.
Arguably, GraphQL doesn't do much, and we've closed plain Java and C# posts before where all reviewers had to chew on was ...
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Is it on topic here for questions not about specific code but rather how to manage the code?
Title explains it: I want to ask a question about maintaining branches of a single project and I'm not sure if it's on topic. If not, is there anywhere that it would be on topic?
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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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Reviewing Programming Challenge requirements and givens
As I came across this answer Codility's Permutation Check in C# [answer #200620], I noticed the user reviewed quite a few requirements of the challenge, before reviewing the OP's code. My questions ...
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Is hacking/cracking on-topic? [duplicate]
Login to website behind captcha seeks to circumvent a captcha. I think that white-hat hacking or penetration testing for the purpose of security improvement might be OK, but this is clearly in the ...
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Is a changeset reviewable?
I'm looking at Java refactoring - reduce cognitive complexity by extracting private methods (note: the question has been edited since I wrote this. At that time, I was looking at Revision 4) and in ...
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Is the review of vocabulary/ontology use (e.g., for HTML structured data) on-topic?
In HTML, structured data is typically added with the syntaxes JSON-LD, Microdata or RDFa. The review of the syntax use is clearly on-topic, just like the use of plain HTML is.
But what about the ...
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Answer made on suggested comment, not on initial question
I came across the following answer: dynamically-add-remove-fields-on-input and don't know the site policy for this specific scenario.
Scenario
OP asks for the following:
The following code allows ...
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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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Are Nix expressions without any logic on topic? [duplicate]
I've written a configuration.nix file for my systems, and it would be very useful to have it reviewed. Nix expressions are code, very similarly to Puppet or Chef, but are declarative, so I wonder if ...
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Why is this question asking who's right in answers on Stack Overflow off-topic?
Code knowledge against simplicity when looping on a list, what is the best practice?
Close Reason:
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to ...
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Reviewing language design, with working interpreter and test case?
I'd like to get some feedback on a small tuple-rewriting language I've been playing with. It has a working interpreter, and a working test case.
A little more background information: This idea began ...
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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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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 ...
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Add the word “readability” to the off topic close reason
Today we have this close reason:
Code not implemented or not working as intended: Code Review is a community where programmers peer-review your working code to address issues such as security, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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Closure of finding the longest word in a string
Recently we got the question Finding the longest word in a String. (10k required)
This question looked like it was off-topic, because of the following results:
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Can you post code that works on one version of a interpreter (ex:Python 2) but not on another (ex:Python 3)
I am new to this specific Q&A site and I got my rep off of association bonuses, and I wanted to ask how to fix my code to work for another version of python.
I noticed the text "Post code that is ...
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Technology review without code
I developed a new blockchain technology. I have white papers and my code is under development.
I would like to ask a question about my technology idea and not providing actual code. Is that kind of ...
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When to create a generator or return simply a list, closed for missing context
The other day we got the question: When to create a generator or return simply a list in Python?
This question has a generic title, some code which contains enough code to be reviewed. And a couple ...
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Code that handles n% of test cases but not all
I've started noticing recently questions like this one (66%, not well received) or that one (50%, well received) where the author states something like this:
I am trying to solve this problem on ...
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When is a question considered too hypothetical / lacking context?
The reason I'm asking is because I recently encountered this question, and I can't make my mind up if it's off-topic here or not. I asked OP to include the imports so I could run the program, but ...
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Can you show me how to apply a specific strategy to my working code to improve it
As brought up here, I'm not sure when the last time we (as a site) discussed how to determine if questions are on- or off- topic.
A lot of questions currently fails the "any or all facets of the ...
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Are vectorization requests on-topic?
Currently, there are 62 questions tagged vectorization, nearly all of which say "The performance sucks; how can I vectorize this code?".
Recently, How to efficiently apply correction to a time series ...
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When are Machine Learning questions on-topic?
With the increase in popularity of machine learning and its libraries, we are also getting more machine learning questions.
Machine Learning is a tricky subject as the concept of whether or not the ...
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Why is “Building a good C++11 template library - compile-time checked enum array” on-topic?
The currently highest voted unanswered question is, well, unanswerable. As Martin said one year ago, "there is actually nothing here to review" and "the actual code is missing as are some other parts ...
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“Who Wrote This?” and What Do We Actually Consider Authorship?
As I was working through the Close Votes Review Queue, I came upon a question beginning like this:
I just cloned (Github clone, not literal clone) someone's Tic-Tac-Toe game and I was originally ...
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Why don't we have a close reason like “off-topic because of asking to find a 3rd party resource” like SO has? Or at least a “Blatantly off-topic”?
I recently came over this question
I am trying to implement duplicate file finder in visual C++.
I followed this link
Successful implementation of Duplicate Files Finder in C++
But it don't ...
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Is a BNF grammar for a language acceptable for review as concrete code?
Syntax for a simple scripting language is a question asking for a review of a grammar of a C-like language. The grammar specification isn't an input for any specific parser generator tool:
I wrote ...
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Could we detect phrases like “not working” and “bug” in question titles and warn users?
It has been mentioned recently that ~62% of close votes come from the "broken code" or "code not yet written" category. I'm wondering if we could help lower that percentage by detecting certain key ...
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Are questions with undiscovered bugs allowed?
Re: Connect 4 in C++
Situation: The OP, a beginner posted code with several bugs in it. They said they thought the code worked okay, because they hadn't discovered the bugs during their testing, ...
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Code typed in from a non-text source or converted from another language and isn't working - is this in the scope here?
I recently typed in code from a scan in a PDF is pseudocode or in another language to make a JavaScript version.
The code was implementing things of a mathematical nature beyond my math abilities ...
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Why was “Check if a variable is one of a set of valid strings” put on hold?
They said:
Questions must involve real code that you own or maintain. Pseudocode, hypothetical code, or stub code should be replaced by a concrete implementation. Questions seeking an explanation ...
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How should we handle answers on non-code questions?
Recently I've come across a question that didn't contain any code. The questioner instead asked for code, as some new users do. So far same business as usual, but a user went ahead and posted a ...
