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Call of Duty II - We're still on a mission
Briefing.
November 16, 2013. In response to a not-so-shiny Stack Exchange Community Managers' review of our favorite Stack Exchange site and seeing that about 10% of the site's content consisted of ...
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Reviewing generated code
Is reviewing generated code on topic ?
Scenarios:
Someone wrote the generator and it is included or linked and provided with generated code.
Someone wrote the generator and only included generated ...
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Can I post Excel formulas for review here? [duplicate]
I want to get a review on some Excel (Non-VBA) data validation formulas I have applied to some columns in a spreadsheet. Is this acceptable? I feel like it will get closed on SO because I'm really ...
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Tag request: [atl]
I am new here and thus do not have permission to create tags yet. Could we create the atl tag, which is equal to the atl-tag on Stack Overflow?
I would like to tag this question.
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Can we rename “Ask question”?
A recent "question" (will probably be deleted when you click it) made me realize: The "Ask Question" label on Code Review can be a bit misleading here.
Code Review questions are expected to contain ...
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Is it appropriate to post a question about code which has already been reviewed? [duplicate]
I posted some code. Code Reviewers left me some great suggestions and helped me to drastically improve my code.
Is it appropriate to repost the updated code to get some additional feedback?
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My code works in most scenarios, but this one scenario breaks, and I'd like help fixing that one scenario!
My code works in most scenarios, but in this specific scenario, it does not at all do what I intend for it to do. I was hoping to have it reviewed and see if anyone could spot a fix.
Is this ...
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To what extent should a recorded Excel macro be rewritten (removing .Select)?
I'm just feeling my way around here, having had a post recently moved over from another site together with its question. While I like the idea of a place to ask specifically for improvements to ...
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Moving elements of answer from question to already existing self-answer
This is kind of a corner case but I love to know what people think when it comes to corner cases:
Once upon a time, I posted a question that I still like and it included some elements of an answer ...
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Let's draft better Help Center pages!
To follow up on Help spot deficiencies in our Help Center, let's collaboratively draft better Help Center pages.
For each Help Center page to be modified, post a Community Wiki "answer" containing ...
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What to do with Playground questions?
Are questions about code and its performance in a "Playground" on-topic?
This question is primarily inspired by this question (which is off-topic anyways as being broken code): Simplify expression in ...
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1answer
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Info request: “Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received”
I have 7 questions with several positive up-votes and 2 deleted by myself. Today I received this message when trying to ask a question:
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been ...
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1answer
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Uncounted close vote?
I cast a close vote on this question: Simplify expression in Swift playground, or at least that's what is claimed and is preventing me from casting a close vote now.
Yet the question appears to ...
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Process to follow when un-answered questions have a follow-on
This question was asked a couple of weeks ago, and has not been answered in that time. It has languised: Edmonds-Karp algorithm for maximum flow in Java
In the interim, the question asker has updated ...
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1answer
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Tagging categories - Which are most useful?
TL;DR: I have categorized ~140 tags. I believe some categories should be used more and some categories should be used less. Goal is to make it possible to use tags to find related questions, as well ...
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Why is code that is not explicitly part of a working project not appropriate? [duplicate]
I recently saw this question, which is a perfectly reasonably question about how to make code more efficient, but it was put on hold for being off topic. I see this all the time - someone wants to ...
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1answer
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Can I post both my code and link to the external repository?
I have read the guidelines and FAQ, and understand that code up for review should be posted on this site. I also understand that modifying the code after it is posted goes against the rules as well as ...
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1answer
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Something breaks my indentation
Seems like there is a bug, that breaks my indentation.
See
In third code section of
Create New C++ Class
In first code section of
Code Generator Generator
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2answers
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Am I violating the [beginner] tag?
I consider myself a beginner, therefore I usually end up using the beginner tag.
For these questions, am I violating the beginner tag?
Reverse Polish Notation Compiler
Code Generator Generator
...
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1answer
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Should we have a [calculator] tag?
Example questions:
Simple calculator
Java Calculator
Console calculator
Ruby Kata Gem: Calculator
Calculator - C++ operator-overloading
Small Python calculator
Calculator using class ...
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What should we do with questions which are looking like sample code but are a proof of concept implementation?
Yesterday I stumbled over 2 questions which seemed to be sample code.
The first stated
I wrote a sample project to show you my model. What do you think about it?
and the other had code like ...
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1answer
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How can I ask interesting questions as a beginner?
Here at Code Review, we, the reviewers volunteering our time, are deciding to use our time to focus on improving something we found on this site. Because of this, questions must be interesting. It is ...
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Self-answering questions without other answers
I posted a question, and after it had been up a couple hours, I realized how some of the code could be improved, so I posted an answer myself. After I did so, though, I wasn't sure if I had done the ...
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Complete code rewrite
I came across this question today:
Count the ways to partition an array into two equal sets
This question can be interpreted in a way, that it asks for a complete rewrite of the code, and indeed ...
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Should [adventure-game] and [role-playing-game] be synonymized?
We have both adventure-game (14 questions) and role-playing-game (5 questions), which don't seem to differ much in the questions being asked for both. Plus, most of these questions involve a console ...
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Valid HTML Vs. Viewable HTML
If a user can view the HTML the way they need to on IE (Hypothetically) but the HTML isn't valid, is it still On-Topic?
How have you decided this in past? should we continue to use the same set of ...
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Selfie code-only answers as an offsite link
This question Gees - GPL Euler equation solver and its revisions were recently affected by this policy we have about how to add selfie-answers to your question
Specifically (I have bolded the ...
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Let's burn [form]
Quoting the Tag-Wiki:
An HTML form is a section of a document containing normal content,
markup, special elements called controls (checkboxes, radio buttons,
menus, etc.), and labels on those ...
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Help spot deficiencies in our Help Center
Regular participants will be familiar with procedures and practices on Code Review. For example, we have rules against
asking hypothetical questions
appending to or modifying the question after ...
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CoreData or code-backed UML reviews
About: Core Data model for test-taking iOS app
See also: Are UML diagram reviews on-topic for CodeReview? and Reviewing "design"
I feel the linked question is off-topic because it is ...
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Code Prettify - Choose your favorite or make your own!
We all like code, let's face it. And with Code Review's upcoming graduation "colors" I'm sure that many would like for the large amount of code that is posted daily in questions and answers to look ...
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1answer
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Why is this question in the Top Questions / active list?
A couple of minutes ago I stumbled upon this question. The reasons I'm asking this question are:
There has been no activity since Jamal♦ last edited it.
It has been migrated from SO, altough it's a ...
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Dealing with a question with no answer
The Help page suggest that if a question has received no answer, the poster should:
Edit the question to provide status and progress updates
Document continued efforts to answer the question
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Are questions to review markdown on-topic?
Markdown itself is almost a (very) small subset of HTML, which is rendered as such. We use markdown on many places, including on the whole Stack Exchange network and Github. Sometimes, it is a good ...
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Java programming samples
I am searching for already written (intermediate level) Java programs, where I would like to read code written by other people and to analyze it to become a better programmer (maybe because I am too ...
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What causes a question to get closed as example code?
Multiple if else: how to reduce Cyclomatic Complexity of code
Here's an example of something that was tagged as example code. I'm wondering what makes it example code as sometimes we have to change ...
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Reconsider code ownership policy?
This question of mine (10k required) was put on hold with the explanation
This question does not appear to be a code review request within the scope defined in the help center. Please see the ...
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Does \renewcommand in MathJax affect other user's posts?
In MathJax, does
\$\renewcommand\LaTeX{\textbf{u got hax'd}}\$
affect other people's posts?
This is it being used in this post. Definition:
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Is the [Linq] tag appropriate if the code doesn't use Linq?
This question raises my question.
Classify values depending on predicates C#
The code in the question doesn't actually use any linq. OP simply believes there may be a solution using Linq that ...
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Why shouldn't I use W3Schools as reference? [closed]
In the comments of this question about HTML and JavaScript, I read sentences like
Also, let me suggest the site developers.whatwg.org for your use as reference, instead of W3Schools. (link)
and
...
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Can I ask for feedback on an idea for a standard?
I'm looking to come up with a standard for how to implement a system that will automatically update software. As such, there is no actual programming per se, but I still want to make sure my standard ...
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Is the [comments] tag too meta?
Last summer we burninated a number of meta tags. These were mostly tags that described what the original poster of a question was concerned about or wanted to have reviewed. I stumbled across the ...
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Should the [jquery-mobile] tag be populated with existing questions?
We have a new jquery-mobile tag. This is the tag description from to SO:
jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework for smartphones and tablets. It provides a unified user interface system ...
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Code Prettify - Line numbers?
SE sites use Google Code Prettify for code formatting. While it's still up in the air as to whether we would be able to get SE to use community-voted code formatting, I've been experimenting with ...
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Frequently Posted Comments
On Code Review we often encounter questions with the same kind of problem over and over again.
Some of us are using the auto comments script which allows you to maintain a list of comments to post.
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The Code Review/Programmers/Stack Overflow hot potato
I don't want to cross-post on all metas so code review has to be the target of my ire, apologies.
Current hotness:
Test & remove, or always remove
So I'm starting to notice that questions are ...
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Is it advisable to share the link of the entire project on Code Review? [duplicate]
I would like someone to review a small PHP project of mine - the entire source code of which has been uploaded on Github.
Is it advisable to share the link of the entire project here on Code Review?
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Should newbie questions be moved from SO to CR for style/organization advice?
Suppose a newbie asks a question on SO with an MWE that's adequately formatted, but there are mistakes in style and organization that make it difficult to understand the code. OP is trying to ask a ...
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Should [dry] be blacklisted?
This tag was burninated as part of this discussion, and I've seen it come back a few times after that, including today. It may be a popular review request, but that doesn't mean it should keep coming ...
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Uses of [comparative-review]
I recently discovered this comparative-review tag while reading some PE questions. It says:
This tag is used for questions which present a problem and multiple solutions, where the asker wishes to ...
