Questions specific to stackoverflow.com should now be asked on meta.stackoverflow.com.
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No data for [ruby-on-rails] on “Compare number of Questions per week, for 3 given tags, over a specified period”
In this query, I am trying to compare 3 tags to see the number of Questions asked for each per week, but ruby-on-rails fails to appear:
DECLARE @tag0 nvarchar(10) = ##tag0:string?python##
DECLARE ...
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Cant get points from upvote stackoverflow [closed]
So I have this account from StackOverFlow programming site. But when they upvote my answer I dont get points?? it supposed to be 10.
It was working yesterday, accumulating 300+ points yesterday
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Bug: Careers 2.0 - Connect stackoverflow (incorrect account)
I'm trying to build out my Careers 2.0 profile by connecting to a Stack Exchange account with 200+ rep. My Stack Overflow account has more than 200 rep, but the area where I can connect the account ...
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what is wrong in flagging an answer that has a wrong content format [migrated]
I just flagged an answer on Stack Overflow for wrong content format.
The content of that answer has characters like -
onslaught of horror. Rege̿̔̉x-based HTML parsers are the cancer that
is ...
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What is the relation between Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange?
Although this question is related:
What is the difference between Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange?
it doesn't answer the question of whether or not questions can be moved between these two areas. I ...
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What is the difference between differnet background colors of questions in StackExchange? [duplicate]
As you can see in the following sample picture some questions have a white background and some a bright cream-ish color. I wanted to know the difference between these two.
I am also wondering about ...
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Which topics are left for Stackoverflow? [duplicate]
With all the new ____.stackexchange.com sites coming up, I wonder if there is some reasoning on which questions do belong on stackoverflow.com.
The FAQ site says a question belongs there if it ...
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Should the stackoverflow tag excerpt be altered to guide people to SO/MSO if applicable?
I just noticed that Meta has a stackoverflow tag.
First, I wanted to suggest to delete it, but then I thought of a useful application for it (also, it has 5.8K questions, so probably a little hard to ...
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Merge of stackoverflow and programmers [duplicate]
I think that the original purpose of Programmers (originally called not-programming-related) hasn't fulfilled its purpose, and right now it functions as a duplicate of Stack Overflow.
The question ...
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What is the difference between meta and meta stack? [duplicate]
I've been participating in stack overflow for a while and for some reason just realized today that there are (at least) two meta sites for stack overflow:
http://meta.stackexchange.com/
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Do I need to give attribution if I use Stack Overflow for learning new things?
Suppose I a find solution to my problem on Stack Overflow. Do I need to give attribution to the particular question that helped me? The license at the bottom says "you need to give attribution", but I ...
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Reduce question duplication by awarding commenting privilege before asking privilege
There is a problem in the Stack Overflow system, and it has to do with the site's users. From what I understand, based on my experience and observations, newbies like me tend to get downvoted when a ...
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What should we do about all the broken Stack Overflow tag links on MSE?
[tag:tag], or tag, redirects to here, no longer to Stack Overflow.
This is a bit of a problem with some Stack Overflow-specific tag questions, like this one, which now all have essentially broken ...
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Should some of the SO related questions be migrated to the real meta SO sites? [duplicate]
Now that meta SE and meta SO part ways, do you think that some of the questions that are being migrated to this meta SE site should be migrated back to meta SO, especially if they are SO specific?
I ...
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What does “This room is frozen; new messages cannot be added” mean?
When i found a chat room in SO which will be helpful for me i saw a message below that chat room says,
This room is frozen; new messages cannot be added.
What does this mean? when i can chat ...
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Stack Overflow pages take high CPU in Chrome when opened from restored session until visible
I recently noticed that with a freshly re-opened Chrome window (I have Chrome set to re-open my last opened tabs), all the hidden Stack Overflow question tabs are eating up nearly 100% of a CPU core ...
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Stack Overflow meta migration - historical questions
Since the split between Meta Stack Exchange and Meta Stack Overflow, my questions were all migrated to the new Meta Stack Exchange site.
However I remarks there is a tag stackoverflow for those ...
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What is meta user tab?
I saw many changes of user interface on meta site . I would like to know what is meta user tab (check below image) on my profile page?
Am I getting new account with reputations as SO account ...
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Sudden increase in profile views without changing anything in profile. What Can be the reason?
I noticed a sudden increase in the number of profile views to my account.
I haven't changed anything in my profile.
Earlier it was like 2 or 3 in a week, but in last 4-5 days it has been viewed 30-40 ...
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Will language-specific sites affect the user's contribution to Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I just stumbled upon the Area51 Stack Exchange sites and happen to see few proposals based entirely on language. For example:
Stack Overflow in Portuguese
Stack Overflow in German
Stack Overflow in ...
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Can I ask other stack overflow members to consider removing their downvote after a post has been deleted? [closed]
I could have modifications ready for a specific question that was downvoted.
I felt like the best thing to do was to delete the post first.
Is it possible to flag for moderator attention after you ...
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How to write <?php into a answer in Stackoverflow? [duplicate]
I tried to answer a question and putted:
"< ? php" (no blanks between it) into a answer here in stackoverflow.
But it does not work; i read about the advanced formatting but did not find the hint ...
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Should the [via] tag be burninated? [closed]
I browsed over the list of questions under via tags, most of them means only the English word via.
Some of them refers to the via link on a website or an app. This part I'm not so sure, I do feel ...
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SO no longer displaying career suggestions in sidebar?
I noticed that SO is no longer displaying career suggestions in the sidebar? Is this a bug, a glitch, a new "feature", a new setting I haven't enabled, ... or?
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Is StackOverflow an appropriate place to ask questions related to mobile development?
I looked for, and was surprised not to find, a StackExchange "Mobile Applications" site. Is StackOverflow the best place to ask questions related to Android/iOS development, or does there exist a more ...
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Flagged “not an answer”, flag marked helpful but answer still exists
I flagged this answer, which was marked as helpful. So why does this post still exist?
Someone edited the post a few minutes back, so here's the original revision that I flagged:
Could you try ...
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Re-tag questions with [market] to [google-play], [closed]
All the questions tagged with market are also tagged with android. This suggests that they are all refering to the android-market.
Since the android-market tag is a synonym of the google-play tag I ...
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Burninate meta tag [non-technical] [closed]
The non-technical tag is a terrible meta tag and any questions that could be tagged non-technical would be very off topic on StackOverflow.
Most of the questions on this tag are already closed. I ...
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How much effort was required to develop Unicoin?
I wondered a lot when I saw the Unicoin April fool yesterday. Since, in my experience, development takes a great time.
Is it possible to have some information about the effort which this development ...
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Is this the most ridiculous moderator response ever? [closed]
So go ahead and get your down-votes ready. Because I don't care given my pure disgust at this:
The user who goaded this return should be banned. Numerous examples of bad behavior have been given. ...
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what should I call them [closed]
I did read rules about what should post and should not post on stack overflow
in general, I feel this is a place to ask any programming related questions.
I found there are lots of people, hanging ...
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Make [dnd] a synonym of [drag-and-drop] [closed]
According to the tag wiki dnd is an abbreviation for drag-and-drop.
I think dnd should be made a synonym of drag-and-drop.
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Question Appeal
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22585844/how-do-karma-jasmine-and-protractorangularjs-relate?noredirect=1#comment34432682_22585844
I don't think this question is about opinions but It was closed ...
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Why has my reputation decreased while nothing changed? [duplicate]
My reputation on Stack Overflow was lessened by 105 points today.
Does anybody know why?
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Why was I suspended from chat for a fairly harmless message?
I just posted this message with bold text on http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/10/loungec . Immediately some one suspended me for half an hour.
Here is my message
MIRACLES HAPPENS WHEN YOU ...
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Original question being marked as duplicate of a question that should be duplicate [duplicate]
So here is a question that was asked on SO on Jan 2 '11 at 16:32
Can we instantiate an abstract class?
and the other question that was asked on SO on Dec 2 '12 at 16:01
Interview : Can we ...
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Stackoverflow not showing notifications and rep changes in chrome [duplicate]
I'd like to know why is stackoverflow not showing proper styles on chrome and how to fix it. This started happening yesterday. I'm using Chrome: Version 33.0.1750.154 m: Windows 7 x64.
Chrome:
But ...
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Should there be a [cs50] tag? [closed]
At this moment, there are 100 c questions that refer to Harvard's cs50 course.
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bc%5D+cs50
Is that enough to warrant its own tag? Or is it too similar to the ...
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“add/show X comments” link on mobile scrolls, zooms and opens keyboard
On the mobile version of SO, clicking the "add / show X more comments" link always zooms the "new comment" field into focus and opens the keyboard. It also scrolls the page towards the top a bit so ...
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Close reason: off-topic as asks for best-practices or ways of usage
I just visited this post on SO, here's an excerpt for containment sake:
Ways of formatting an AngularJS directive template
What ways of formatting do you use for formatting templates in ...
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Effective and simple way to get the necessary reputation to upvote good answers? [duplicate]
I'm tired of lurking. Every question I can think of, I've been able to answer with diligent enough searching. I want to thank good answers, upvote good responses, and offer valuable feedback. Any ...
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Burninate [3rd-party] and [third-party] tags? [closed]
All of the following tags are ambiguous, applied to a variety of questions and do not provide any useful information:
third-party and 3rd-party
third-party-controls and 3rd-party-controls
...
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Windows-Phone tags need to be cleaned up [closed]
Windows-Phone tags need to be cleaned up
Currently we have a number of Windows Phone tag variations and it just muddies the water.
I don't see why we need
Windows-Phone 7 (Deprecated platform)
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Should I reword this question to try get it reopened?
This question was put on hold because it wasn't clear what they were asking. I had an idea what they wanted so I asked if my assumption was correct (I asked it before it was put on hold). They have ...
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Burninate the [dell] tag [closed]
The dell tag does not add any useful information to questions other than "I am using something made by Dell". The range of questions includes laptops, monitors, android phones and tape drives so the ...
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Stack Overflow has gotten mean [duplicate]
I don't really know where to post this.
I like Stack Overflow and it has been a great help as I build various applications - all with no formal training in computer science.
My concern is that I ...
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Is there any SE site where questions regarding reporting bugs can be asked?
A question regarding where to post bugs was flagged as off topic at SO.
Is it possible to log a bug report for JDK 5?
Where should this question have been asked?
Should a new site be created under ...
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Why were my edits rejected?
A couple of months back, I came across a answer which had a typo in it: How to show that a monad is a functor and an applicative functor?. I made this edit initially: ...
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Will deleting/flagging my own post give me back my reputation? [duplicate]
I created a post which was down-voted multiple times, if I delete or flag my post, will I get my reputation back?
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Is it okay to ask about video game console hacks/exploit?
Some questions ask things which involve circumventing encryption in the answer.
There are also questions which ask how to write programs for getting homebrew software running, while certain company ...
