This tag is for questions specifically about the process of asking questions on Code Review; e.g. how to ask, whether specific questions are appropriate, etc.
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Design for a question about thread abortion and related process
I posted a question for Code Review, and other than a few comments, what I was told was that I should put actual code of the process and people were only interested in knowing that. What I really ...
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What is the take on getting older (possibly obsolete) languages reviewed?
Specifically, I want to address languages from the era of 8-bit home computing. Such languages could include:
6502 Assembly
6800 Assembly
8080 Assembly
Commodore BASIC
etc...
These languages are ...
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Will a question be downvoted for poor code?
I am kind of new to Code Review SE (I only have two questions), and am trying to understand the site. I recently came across this question with three downvotes.
For the most part, It seems that it is ...
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Can I ask the same question with a different language?
I am wondering if it would be bad to ask for the same code review, just under a different language.
For example:
Hypothetically I post a question asking for a code review of my Ruby "Hello World" ...
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Should I include code or a link to a test project for the code being reviewed?
I have some code (a library) of about 25,000 characters (~1000 lines) that I would like to have reviewed.
I have a test project (Windows project with Windows Forms) for that code. Is it a good idea ...
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Why did a question about unit-testing get migrated?
I'm curious as to why this question got migrated to Stack Overflow, mostly so I can ask in the correct place in the future. It's about unit testing a functioning python module, the unit tests all ...
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Can I edit the code of my question if I haven't received any answer and comment yet? [duplicate]
So I asked this question two days ago. The question was well-received with 4 upvotes yet I haven't received any answers and no one has commented it.
In the meanwhile, I developed an other entirely ...
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Little applet for elo rating system
I have written a bit of Python code with Tkinter to make a small applet to allow people to enter game scores and keep track of their rating (using the elo rating system).
I have an initial ...
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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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Should a warning be displayed when writing a question with no code?
On 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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Asking questions with UML diagrams instead of code [duplicate]
Can I ask a question with a UML class diagram instead of code? What about instead of some code? The kind of questions I'm interested in asking are about software architecture, not low-level coding ...
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Should Code Review's related questions say they “may already have your answer”?
On Stack Overflow itself it makes perfect sense to link to similar questions and say that the user might get better results from searching those results first and can likely find their problem already ...
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Major bugs caught in questions
I wrote a question, but forgot to thoroughly re-test my code after I made a modification and before I posted the question. I was notified of a major bug by mjolka (thank you!) in chat, such a major ...
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Can you ask for a review on code of a self-created language? [duplicate]
If one were to create their own language and documentation for the language, could they ask for a review on code they have written in their language as long as they provided a link or inline ...
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Questions that are “I did this, it seems to work, how did I do?”
I've been an active member of StackOverflow for more than two years, and have a decent amount of rep on some other SE sites like Programmers, Code Golf and here. But the one type of question that ...
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Is it too easy to post your code for review?
Our current situation:
We are getting 34 questions per day
We are getting more and more unanswered questions
We are still on a mission
I feel that we multiple times per day get questions that are ...
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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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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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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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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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I've observed many toy/homework questions
It appears that many review requests are for toy or homework examples (e.g. FizzBuzz).
Is this observation correct or am I mistaken? If observed correctly, I have the following questions:
Is it ...
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Which licenses are compatible with Code Review?
It is should be well known that code posted to Code Review are licensed under CC-BY-SA.
I am wondering: Are there any licenses that are compatible with this licensing? Is it possible to use one ...
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Can I use CR as an environment to foster an open source project?
Let's suppose that I have a personal project which I think might interest more people, and given my low position in the learning curve, want to make it open source.
Besides posting pieces of code in ...
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Does this open the door for chameleon questions?
Obj-C wrapper for OpenLDAP
The user originally posted the top half of the code there. An answer was posted.
After the answer had upvotes and a comment from the questioner (noting his appreciation ...
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Insufficient “How to ask”
As a newbie coming to CR and asking the very first question you can see
There's nothing about broken code there and many new questions seem to get closed quickly because of it.
Moreover, it names ...
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How can I improve this question?
I'm referring to this question: SQL-Server Merge Statement with .NET DataTable
I've given it a couple days to see what happened after I asked it initially. There's been very little traffic, no votes ...
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Tagging: C++ vs C
I've noticed more and more questions recently having their posts tagged with C++ both c++ and c. A couple examples that I have recently handled myself:
Karatsuba C++ implementation
Passing objects ...
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Are we allowed to ask questions about just regular expressions?
Are we allowed to ask questions just about regular expressions?
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May I ask a question about legacy code, where I don't intend to implement advice given by CR?
One of the checklist items for an on-topic question is:
Do I want feedback about any or all facets of the code?
I have considered posting old code to CR which I think would spur useful ...
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Stop mentioning major concerns in title
On the Ask a Question page, users are currently faced with this:
state the purpose of your code, and mention any major concerns.
I have recently started commenting on many questions with this ...
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Are questions that ask *not* to offer readability/style/structure advice, on topic? [duplicate]
The question in question: A platform-independent implementation of "which" in Ruby
The OP has rather specifically asked that people not talk about how to improve the readability of the code ...
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Is it okay to post the same Project Euler solution, using the same language, but with a different implementation?
I have come up with my very own Clojure implementation of the solution for Project Euler #2, but I see that someone already solved this particular problem using Clojure and put it up here for code ...
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How to get the best value out of Code Review - Asking Questions
I have a project I am working on, and I would like some, or all of it
reviewed, how can I ask for this review on Code Review in a way that
produces the best possible value?
This is not about ...
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How to deal with homework questions without question? [duplicate]
The question in question (no pun intended): Cutting stock recursion
OP basically dumped the problem definition and a solution on us. There is no indication to if the code actually works, it is ...
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Reviewing AI based on how it performs
On Code Golf is is common to see a king-of-the-hill question where you have to implement an AI based on the rules given in the question.
So then I got to thinking - "If I developed an AI for one of ...
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My code with a small set of classes may be too much [duplicate]
I have a small set of classes that form an events system that I would very much like opinions on, but they're made up of a few classes that together amount to around 1kloc. I'm a little worried that ...
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Questions about speed/memory comparisons
This question should be considered as an expansion discussion on the policy discussed in Should comparisons of code snippets be closed as "not seeking a code review"?
For comparative ...
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Can we answer these Javascript/CSS3 performance questions?
I've seen that lately the amount of questions regarding performance issues when using Javascript, jQuery, CSS3, etc. has increased.
Question is: Can we actually review them?
I'm edging towards no, ...
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Can we require questions to have at least one language tag?
We are getting a low amount of questions every day which are not tagged with a language. I believe we can could prevent this if we make adding a language required.
Is there a possibility to add this ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Can we ask reviewers to *not* focus on something?
Our Help Center says:
Do I want feedback about any or all facets of the code?
However, sometimes we might have some code that we are aware has flaws in it, or we would just for one reason or ...
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Asking questions - including full code
In my first CR question, I was looking for feedback about my implementation of a graph data structure and an algorithm for depth first traversal, as I am studying these at the moment.
Although I ...
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How should really big code challenge submissions be reviewed? [duplicate]
As far as I am aware, a question consisting of a really big codebase is generally off-topic here, as our answerers are simply not able to put so much effort in it.
I'd like to talk about a special ...
