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Is it appropriate to reveal solutions to public challenges in comments and answers?
I've seen a question that asks for a review of a piece of code that solves a public coding challenge (linked in the question). The first comment just discloses the optimal solution without actually ...
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How can I ask for a review of the same item after making an update? [duplicate]
Suppose, I submit a code for review, and some reviewers suggest some corrections. Suppose I then want to update my code and show it to the same reviewers.
How should I do it? Should I edit my ...
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Link GitHub project to Code Review
I am currently writing some open source that's available in GitHub. Of course I am also getting the code reviewed here.
One of the things with GitHub is the documentation allows me to put little tags ...
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Let's talk about Code Review's [design-patterns]
Is there a correct usage for design-patterns? If so, can someone clarify it to me? Every time I see the tag, I'm left asking, "why is this a tag?"
Here's the snippet:
A design pattern is a ...
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Do we need this [crud]?
crud seems like a meta tag to me. Can we burn it?
From its cruddy wiki entry:
The four basic operations for a data management system: Create, Read, Update, Delete
It is used on just 14 ...
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Python 2.7 wiki
Related to this meta.
The Python 2.7 wiki states (emphasis mine):
Use this tag if you are specifically using Python 2.7. Such questions should be tagged with [python] as well.
Why? The tagging ...
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Adding someone else's code into the question [duplicate]
Code behind a link is off-topic. Good.
Questions trying it anyway get closed. Good.
But every once in a while I encounter a question which is quite good and where this is the only problem. Now, I ...
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Confusion over posting an acceptable question
My question was closed with a very vague reason. I'm a member on multiple Stack Exchange sites and haven't had issues before with creating a question.
If my question is off-topic I would say the ...
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Authors 'final result' post showing the 'final result' after the answer/corrections/suggestions [duplicate]
The case: Somebody posts code for review then follows up with all the analysis and some of the answers is accepted.
The suggestion: Some kind of finalization post by the dev who is asking the ...
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Are Code Golf King-of-the-Hill controller programs allowed here?
I am in the process of writing a KOTH challenge for Code Golf (it's on the meta sandbox), and like for all KOTH challenges I need to write some code to pit everyone's bot against each other. I've done ...
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Graduation update: it's election season!
I'll start off by addressing the elephant in the room. It's been the better part of a year since the announcement that Code Review was graduating. In all those months, there haven't been any visible ...
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Reopening already reviewed questions containing broken code
This concerns this question I (and then others) voted to close. It contains some bugs, which were found in this review by mdfst13. I wasn't sure if closing was a good idea and the current outcome says ...
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How can be reviewing made more efficient?
As suggested by 200_success in a comment to this answer of mine, I'm asking this question. For me, missing tools are the biggest problem of this site. I'd bet that it repels potential reviewers and ...
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Should you write the code for the OP?
I've seen a couple of answers have sections at the end of the post where it brings together all of the recommendations that have been mentioned in that post and re-writes the code using those ...
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Can I post some code that has a small potential bug?
I've written a program that works most of the time. But occasionally it would crash due to a segfault, so I wonder whether it is proper to post such a snippet of code.
Most programs contain bugs; ...
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Do we need [tdd] and [unit-testing]?
Do we need tdd and unit-testing? I understand that they're not synonymous in the real world. One can unit test without testing first, but do we require this fine grain distinction between the two?
In ...
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Is it reasonable to link to a third-party site for review? [duplicate]
I've got a class I'd like to get reviewed but it's 820 lines, and the project where it's hosted at is in a better format than a question code block, I think. You can open it in your editor of choice.
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Code in a question was changed after getting suggestions via answers and/or comments? [duplicate]
Today, I saw a question that asked to review the OP's code. On reading the answers, I found that they repeat or just explain the things seen in the code and say:
You can use xxx instead of yyy
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Does getting OutOfMemoryError really mean broken code?
This concerns this currently deleted question.(*) My opinion is that a program getting out of memory after 3 hours is basically working. It may not be good enough for what's required, but it's exactly ...
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Why was the question too vague?
I'm reasonably new here but wondered why this question got put on hold?
The OP asks for a review of the code he had provided as the answer to another post on this site. (He includes a link to the ...
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How do I create a FAQ or Help page?
An easy way to test certain theories about improving Code Review's demographics would be to run ads on Stack Overflow.
I ask because I would like to form an opinion for myself about how hard it is ...
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Could I make my design/approach question off-topic?
I just want to discuss my question which was put on hold:
Config data management within a framework
I'm not ranting or arguing. I'm just trying to ascertain why my specific question was not on ...
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Misinformation in an answer
In this post, the user offers a more than satisfactory review, but he's also made a few mistakes. The user claims:
log(2.0) is 0.3 so dividing by that is equivalent to multiplying by 3.3. That ...
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“3 questions” in SO comments pointing to CR
An SO user commented this on a question that would possibly be a candidate for Code Review:
I think we need a three question quiz before you can post.
Of which it was said in chat:
That's a ...
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Using author comments in posts
Sometimes, questions with authoring comments surface, and whilst changes can greatly affect the difference in code, is an author comment really warranted in answer?
StackExchange's attribution ...
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“We are looking for long answers …” on a question
This question has been marked with the text
We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is right, ideally ...
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Should we burn a [python] tag?
Every time a post involves Python code, it has the Python tag AND the Python version tag that suits the version of Python that the post is using.
I think that is a little repetitive, and we should ...
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Optimizing a Neural Network - on topic?
Backpropagating with Neural Network
The above question asks for help in optimizing a genetic algorithm. At the moment the algorithm takes too long to stabilize.
I have voted to close the question as ...
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Why did a moderator remove a whole sentence in my question?
I have often observed that some of my questions were revised by moderators, and till now I always understood (and approved) the reason of the modification: correcting typos or language faults, ...
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Please provide me feedback on my badly received questions
Two of my questions were down-voted as -3 and -4. I couldn't understand the problem with them. But if at-least 3 people are down-voting something is bad with them. Nobody commented or answered or ...
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Burn the [database] tag?
A lot of the database questions have specific database engine tags on them. I think we should stick to the database engine tags instead of the generic database.
I think that we should burn the ...
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How many lines of code are too much? [duplicate]
I've built an ASP.Net component, for example, which consists of a base class with 670 lines of code, a sub class with 180 lines, plus some code to illustrate it's usage.
I think this is a perfect ...
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Display a warning when writing a question with no code?
In SO, if I include the words "best practice" in the title of a question, I get a message before I even submit the question warning me that the question appears subjective and may be closed.
Could we ...
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What more can I do for my question to not be off-topic?
Generically calling an overloaded method
My question has been deemed off topic even after editing. What else is needed?
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Tag synonym request: [postgresql] ↔ [postgres]
postgresql feels more proper, but postgres has been more popular. They should be synonymized, though I don't know which one should be canonical.
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Would you ever use the [jquery-ui] tag without the [jquery] tag?
I think that if you were able to use one and not the other then it would okay to not synonymize the jquery-ui to jquery.
But it just doesn't seem like we need both of these tags. I think that we ...
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Merge or synonymize Cold Fusion tags
cfml and coldfusion-10 should be merged with coldfusion.
coldfusion is the most popular tag of them all, but they are all the same thing and there aren't very many questions associated with them.
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Synonym request: [c++0x] ↔ [c++11]
C++0x was the working name for C++11, but they are still the same thing. At this time, c++0x is tagged with 4 questions and c++11 is tagged with 98 questions. Although there's no problem retagging ...
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Synonym request: [backbone] ↔ [backbone.js]
backbone is currently tagged with 9 questions, and backbone.js is currently tagged with 24 questions. These two tags are mapped together on Stack Overflow, so I think the same thing should be done ...
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Tags for [optimization], [performance], [speed]
There is currently a suggestion to make performance a synonym for optimization. I don't think that's right, for two reasons:
You can optimize code for several criteria, such as maximum execution ...
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Are questions about LaTeX documents on-topic?
A few reasons to allow them:
I recently found that there are best practices and document organization methods. That is, splitting the documents based on sections, tables and so forth and using input ...
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Making Code Review a resource for examples on software design issues
I'm having difficulties staying interested in Code Review. I don't feel like I'm participating to anything 'grander' than just stating the same design principles over and over again, hence I started ...
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Could Code Review be used to create a community library?
Here is the elevator pitch:
Using Code Review to assemble a collection of extension methods for .NET and extracting a library out of it.
Originally I created a separate SE site proposal to ...
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Tag synonyms for [optimization] and [sql-server]
I would like to propose the following tag synonyms:
effeciency (7) -> optimization (25)
mssql (3) -> sql-server (4)
In the latter case, I think sql-server should be the master as mssql looks too ...
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Tag synonyms for [codeigniter] and [multithreading]
I would like to propose some more tag synonyms:
multithreading (8) -> threading (4)
codeigniter (3) -> code-igniter (2)
thread-safety (5) also exists, it's not quite the same thing as threading, ...
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Tag synonyms for [strings] and [parser]
I would like to propose the following tag synonyms:
strings (6) -> string (6)
parser (4) -> parsing (5)
Also, I'm not sure that the improvement (4) and readability (19) tags adds anything useful ...
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No tag exists, and I'd like to get a feel for what tag should be used
I still use a lot of Classic ASP/VBScript - migration is not an option at this point - and I find myself in need of a little code review. This leads to two problems:
I don't have enough rep to ...
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*OBSOLETE* Iterative code reviews: how can they happen successfully? *OBSOLETE*
Historical Note
This question is a significant progression in the Code Review process of developing the right processes to follow. It has been superseded though by this later question where ...
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What should our FAQ contain?
Just to break the ice with one from the great seven: what should our FAQ contain?
(One FAQ suggestion/answer)
