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Should timings be included in answers where appropriate?
For many of the questions I've looked at, I see people saying that the algorithms or parts of the implementation will be 'slow', but no one seems to follow this up with performance figures for a ...
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Is cross-posting SOxCR getting popular? If yes, what can we do about it?
Just looking at the migration stats (2k+) I saw 3 duplicate migrations and I just flagged another cross post. That means, of the last 10 migrations, there were 3(or 4) duplicates:
I am thus under ...
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Flag an answer after removing cursing?
I have been flagging answers where I have removed cursing so that mods are aware of a user in the case they violate the rules on a regular basis. Should I not flag it after I have removed the ...
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What should be Meta's master community challenge tag?
We currently have two Meta tags regarding community challenges:
weekend-challenge (8 questions)
code-challenge (1 question)
The main site equivalent of these tags are also synonymized, which will ...
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Let the CR Games begin!
June is about to end. Summer's here (well, if you're in the northern hemisphere, that is.. otherwise, ... yay, winter!), and with it, vacations. We need a new community-challenge.
Let's play. I mean, ...
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Blind upvoting of posts on Code Review
On Code Review, I've noticed that there is a blind upvoting of posts. People judge the question by the heading, not by the effort.
Is this a proper way of upvoting posts?
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Dispute on a now-deleted question
A question was closed/delted because of a dispute?
This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. For more info visit meta.
With:
this question has been ...
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Should we do something about our meta tags?
We have a decent selection of language and technology tags, but we also have many meta tags, such as refactoring. A meta tag, at least on here, specifies the OP's request(s) in a review, and not much ...
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Should we have a [testability] tag?
I came across this recent question, originally only tagged with c#.
OP is particularly interested in how unit-test -friendly his code is, and what could be done to improve on that aspect.
The ...
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I spent a couple of votes. Why am I not showing up in the “voters” page?
In the Users section there's a page that shows the top voters for the week.
I asked a question and voted on the best answers I got, but I'm not showing up on the voters page.
Why is that? Is this a ...
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Request for [codingbat] tag
It would good to have a codingbat tag for questions that related to solving code puzzles coming from codingbat. Can we have a tag for codingbat as we have on Stack Overflow?
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Why do we have to directly insert our code into a question? [duplicate]
I have an issue about being required to insert your code into your question. This can be extremely annoying for many. If you have a large chunk of code, it's also easier for users to understand if you ...
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How to add new tags to Code Review?
I see that there are not so many tags, and the available tags are not comparing all the technologies. For example, there is no tag for play-framework, ejjaberd and of course many others as well.
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Can I ask a question about overall architecture without much specific code?
I have code, but my question is about overall design patterns. Ideally, I would ask a question describing the design decisions made in my project but would have minimal actual code samples.
Is this ...
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Time for an [encryption] tag?
So, we have a ceasar-cipher tag, but not the more general encryption tag. A quick search shows over 200 questions that should potentially have such a tag.
What do you think? Is it a good tag? I can ...
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PowerShell syntax highlighting bug with backticks
Refer to PowerShell Active Directory Browser
Backticks are incorrectly interpreted as some sort of string, instead of a line continuation character.
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Self-answers that re-write code with little/no explanation
I came across this self-answer today:
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/10844/46800
It had no explanation or evaluation of the code in question, just a code rewrite. This seems to me to not ...
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Code Hunt : Perfect score means not-so-perfect coding
With a recent question I went to Code Hunt and played there a little bit.
At one moment I get this result as question :
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Should [programming-challenge] questions require a summary of the challenge?
Project Euler has been offline for several days, after the site was hacked.
Problem is, a large number of our questions relate to Project Euler, and many of them do not contain any description of ...
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What is the relationship between “example code” and “example project?”
A handful of people seem to have formed the opinion that an example project is exempt from this topicality constraint:
Is it actual code from a project rather than pseudo-code or example code?
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Checklist or General Directions on how to write a good CR-ish answer
This question is intended to be the counterpart of: Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question
Getting started with CodeReview:
New users often seem to have problems to understand, what ...
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Contests and Challenges? Burn [contest-problem]
Going through the tags, I found that we have a contest-problem tag. It would be a good tag, except we already have the programming-challenge.
programming-challenge has 202 questions tagged.
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Should we tag Swift questions with the appropriate OS tag as well?
Like should we tag swift questions with the ios or the osx tag as well, or will Apple call their new OS's something else?
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The gray areas of Code Review: Hypothetical / Example code
This is related to Why is hypothetical example code off-topic for Code Review?
Which is related to On-Topic question #3:
Is it actual code from a project rather than pseudo-code or example code?
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Should we close this one-liner ternary as “unclear what you're asking”?
This question looks like OP is worried about DRY and perhaps readability of a one-liner ternary.
I have a bias against one-liners and other narrowed-down questions, but there's a consensus about them ...
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Provide links to official style guides when writing questions
The answers to many questions tagged python on CodeReview start with or otherwise include references to PEP-0008, the official Python Style Guide. Many reviews include comments on use of whitespace ...
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Posting a multi-language project
I have a small project for which I would like to ask for a code review soon. However, it integrates multiple languages (specifically, Python + jQuery and the rest of the browser stack).
Can such a ...
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Reviewing software, not only code
I'm looking for some people/community who are doing each others' software reviews, but not only code. Actually code is the least important. I would like somebody look at my software as a whole and ...
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Unable to move a question to meta
I came across a question. I think this should be moved to meta but I was unable to flag it.
EDIT
The reason I added this question was that it seems to be on topic on Meta Code Review than the main ...
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Is it time to start broadening the definition of duplicates?
sql-injection is commonly a concern in PHP, and it is a common request to ask when presenting code for a Code Review here.
There are only so many ways you can propose a question that relates to SQL ...
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What makes for a good answer?
I found myself looking for some place to point a new user on why his answer wasn't a good answer. I couldn't find anything except the fairly unhelpful Help page's "How do I write a good answer".
So, ...
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Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question
Many questions of new users lack some parts or common style of the site. There already are some meta questions that aggregate tips on this issue but letting new users walk through all of them is ...
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Do new CR users who are trusted elsewhere on SE go through the First Post Queue?
This question is in regards to users who have 100 rep points. When we come here from another SE site, we are awarded 100 rep points to get us started.
What I'm wondering is, do those users go ...
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Should we kill Santa?
Santa is frequently found in The 2nd Monitor. Santa can do magic, and sprinkle upvotes to all the boys and girls that have been good reviewers this year.
Santa generates quite a bunch of reputation ...
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First Post Review Queue - what is it?
When you pass 350 reputation you gain access to the Review Queues. One of them is the "First Post" queue.
What is this queue, what purpose does it serve, and how should I process items in that queue?
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Pascal / Delphi / Pascal Script tags
I have a concern about the tags delphi, pascal-script, pascal that I'm not sure how it can be solved properly.
A short summary about the different things:
Pascal is the original language, created ...
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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 code-only questions off-topic? [duplicate]
I was browsing through the beginner tag and saw this question. It looks functional and is certainly review-able, but OP posted absolutely nothing besides the code. No hint about what it does, or what ...
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Comments to line number [duplicate]
If you have ever used code review tools like Crucible, Basecamp or Github - you know about their essential feature: being able to comment a specific line of code.
With the Stack Overflow engine, I ...
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Are Git workflow questions on-topic?
I recently started working part time in our organization's IT department and am working with one other person who has previously been the sole developer on several applications used in the office. We ...
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Question inside answer
My question: Spliterator implementation got two answers. Into one of these, there's a question for me:
one of the performance advantages of Spliterator is the forEachRemaining() method, and you ...
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Reviewing “design”
It has been said in various comments that on Code Review we review code and not design.
I find this statement not very clear though. Obviously, if someone has an UML and not any written code, that's ...
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Non standard modules not included with code
Code submitted for review is supposed to be "working code". I imagine this to be for 2 reasons:
We are not looking to fix broken code
Being able to run the code allows deeper review
Is this ...
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My code is too long. How do I trim it down when code posted here is expected to function?
The code I would like to have reviewed, found here, is more than 30,000 characters long. I don't feel like that in and of itself makes it off topic, but removing code from it so that it can be posted ...
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Are SSCCEs off-topic?
I was recently reviewing a question, which (if I had paid better attention to the question from the beginning, I may have noticed before answering) had a SSCCE as its primary code example.
At first ...
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Proposal to rename [programming-challenge]
In Rename [code-challenge] to something more site-specific, it was proposed to rename code-challenge to avoid confusion with programming-challenge. That renaming (to community-challenge) has been ...
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Can working code be: off-topic -> not-working?
This question here: Shortest possible way of printing a specific board
Summary:
The code requirement is to print out a grid of text.
The code does in fact print the grid
The way it does that, is ...
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“How To Format” guide has misleading UI elements
The "How To Format" guide on the right side of the screen is misleading. It uses "►" for each item in the list.
Usually this "►" means that the list item is expandable, but it is not an ...
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People looking for help?
A brief glance at this SE seems to tell me it's more filled with "why doesn't this code work" questions as opposed to "How could this code work better" (which I believe is the actual point of this ...
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How do we handle code in another spoken language?
It can be a chore to figure out what is going on in code when all the variables/methods/function/etc. are in another language, like in this question. Or this one.
How should we approach this? I ...
