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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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Practical Best Practice Questions
There are a number of questions of similar type that get asked here:
How many conditions in an "if clause" is acceptable?
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/5804/using-catching-exception …
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The CodeReview FAQ needs clarification of its intent around "best practices" questions
Similiar previously asked questions:
Best practice questions.
Confused by FAQ
My question was not just about best practices, but specifically best
practice in my code;
Your question seemed …
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Online Contest Questions
Firstly, these questions don't really get the same kind of feedback as the other questions.
Most questions on this site get feedback on style. Ways are suggested to make code more readable, follow co …
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Tag synonyms (optimize -> optimization)
I went ahead and did it. Thanks!
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Tag synonyms (refactor -> refactoring)
I went ahead and did it. Thanks!
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Why not codereview.stackoverflow.com?
We are a sibling site of stackoverflow not a daughter site. All of these sites are under the umbrella of stackexchange. Since code review isn't part of stackoverflow, it makes no sense for us to be un …
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Are questions that ask for profiling tools considered on-topic?
I don't think the OP was asking about how to use profiling tools. The question was How do i I find the bottlenecks in my code? My read on it is that the OP wanted help finding his bottlenecks which wo …
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Is it permissible to solicit techincal feedback for a blog entry on coding
As long as you aren't asking for feedback on your writing, which is off-topic here, but rather on the code itself then I think the question would be acceptable.
However, I don't know whether you'll g …
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Getting feedback on functionality and not code
No.
I'm pretty sure that's outside the scope of what could be construed as on-topic here.
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Is it appropriate to post 1k+ lines of code?
I'm thinking that 1.2k lines is a probably a bit much. You probably hit a limit on the size of posts before then.
In cases where the code is too large, the recommended approach is to post part of the …
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Review focus on code or on solution?
I think a good question will point out the flaws in the original code. Its okay to point out alternate and better ways, but you should really point out what was wrong the original.
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Online Contest Questions
A number of questions get posted here by people trying to solve problems from sites like interviewstreet.com. The site is intended to test programmer ability. Can you figure out the efficient algorith …
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Is a question on topic if its asking to improve code, but not for a code review?
There is some blurryness to the definition of on-topic here that has existed for as long as I've been around. However, deciding where that line is has become a recurring problem as a moderator. So I w …
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Are questions about how to further golf a program on-topic here?
Code golfing isn't really what we do. We emphasize making code readable, which is really the opposite of code golfing. Its just not really in the right spirit for us.
If the community agrees, I'll ed …
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Code remove after question answered
If the user has decided they don't want the code listed on the site, I think we need to delete the question. Asking for code review on code you don't want people to see is well silly, but it happens s …