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Route some questions to [url-routing]
Some one recently created url-routing. At time of writing, there are 75...56 20 candidate questions for this new tag. Anyone care to lend a hand applying it?
As always, remember to make all ...
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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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When does the OP not understand their own code?
So, this question was initially triggered by disagreements over whether this question (pre-edit) was on-topic or not.
But this is a wider question, about where the line should be drawn between ...
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Election epilogue: one slight moddification
It's been a while since your first election ended. Your new mods have had some time to settle in, think about how they work together, and figure out the overall state of the Code Review stack. After ...
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Negativity specific to CR [on hold]
First of all, some simple statistics.
codereview.stackexchange.com
26490 - questions asked
345 - rated negatively
1.3% (negative of the total)
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1answer
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Welcome to The 2nd Monitor!
So, you have found your way to the CodeReview.SE main chat room, The 2nd Monitor, perhaps for one of these reasons:
You were invited or "pinged" by a site moderator or other user to discuss a post ...
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The CRonicles: Story of a Stack
Something pretty cool was born earlier today. There was a chat discussion involving new reviewers reviewees, about the site's graduation and the History of Code Review.
Mat's Mug: people can read ...
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1answer
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Should we undelete this answer?
So, backstory first...
Once upon a time there was a new CR user. This user posted a number of spammy answers in a short period of time. All of them linked back to his company's website. Most of them ...
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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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3answers
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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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Users that appear to learn nothing
I've run into a user's questions a couple of times now, and I'm finding that they seem to make the same mistakes in each question they post, like ...
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2answers
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Nothing to review
This question claims to implement the Nothing language.
I'm citing the language specification (emphasis mine):
Note: if the output does not meet the expectation of a "hello world"-program, this ...
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3answers
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What is the logic behind rejecting this edit to fix braces and indentation?
I have edited this question as the code in it is not bracketed properly. One reviewer accepted it, but the OP rejected it. But what is the logic behind it? I want to draw moderators attention.
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Should questions about assembly code include architecture / platform tags?
I was reading this question about a FizzBuzz implementation in assembly for the ATmega16.
I suggested that the OP include a tag indicating the architecture, because the fact that it was for an 8-bit ...
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3answers
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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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Is “You're doing it wrong” a review?
This question sparked a thought in me.
To me, the author is not doing this for exercise (not tagged with reinventing-the-wheel and no mention of the sort) so I assume it is done for production. I ...
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2answers
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Are Scratch questions okay on Code Review?
I want to post a scratch project on codereview for people to give feedback at, but im worried that it would get downvoted and flagged for being off topic.
So are scratch projects allowed? And if not, ...
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1answer
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Why was my comments removed from related answer?
I recently did a code review on Tic Tac T-OO: Design and Implementation, and as such took a little interest in the other answers related to this question. Currently there are only two, and I got into ...
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3answers
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Question author updated the code as a diff. Should I have applied the patch?
Project Euler, Challenge #12 in Swift
If editing in the edit keeps the question clear, should we edit the edit into the question instead of leaving it as two separate blocks of code?
It seemed ...
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1answer
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Using example code to demonstrate the use case
Take a look at the code in this recently closed question. It clearly consists of two parts.
The method, which OP wants us to review.
An example (hypothetical?) code, which demonstrates the use case ...
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2answers
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Should we use a [follow-up] tag when posting a follow-up?
I am looking at creating a follow-up tag, but thought that I should get everyone's opinion on it before I start tagging things sporadically here and there.
I think that creating this tag will benefit ...
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2answers
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What is the difference between golfing and reducing code size?
I'm going to be starting a project (a programming challenge) where the compiled source code must be under a certain amount of bytes, and I already know that I am going to be having trouble meeting ...
3
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1answer
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How can I format a code block below a list?
When I want to list a few things and give a code example below each item how can I do it without writing anything between the list item and the code block?
Example:
List item
Code example not ...
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3answers
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Harmless duplicate or are we being taken advantage of?
This question caught my eye because it had accumulated close votes as being a duplicate of another question, which is very rare on CR. The target was a question I reviewed last year by the same user.
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Would you like to test design-independent graduation?
It's been over a month since the last graduation update and your new mods are settled in. Time for more news!
First, a quick recap. As many of you know, we on the SE team approved Code Review for ...
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Gold tag-badge users closing questions as pre-written off-topic duplicates
I often see questions which are blatantly off-topic, like, for instance, when this question (can only be viewed with enough rep, as it has been deleted) showed up.
The shown c# code had been
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3answers
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What are grounds for a down vote?
Note: This question is not intended to be opinion-based, it's intended for clarification of what is "allowed" (I know there are no rules) as a reason for down-voting.
A complete question has these ...
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2answers
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Posting code that is partially not my own
Say I am learning a programming language through a tutorial. To demonstrate a concept the tutorial provides a program, that is, some working, runnable code (not Code Snippets). Then I encountered an ...
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3answers
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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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2answers
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User mention not showing up in comment
I'm trying to reply to this comment by mentioning the name of the user who gave the answer (using @user syntax). The problem is, that the user name is not appearing at all, at the beginning of my ...
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2answers
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Comparing [tag:comparative-review] to a regular review
I think that a comparative review should be 2 questions, and then the user can take the answers from both and do the comparing on their own. then they can decide what is going to work best for ...
3
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1answer
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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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Why can't I retract my reopen vote?
On this question, I voted to reopen after the second edit. I later realized that I shouldn't have voted to reopen, but I can't take it back. It seems the functionality doesn't exist.
If I click ...
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Should you answer and review the intent of the question, or the actual code?
Just a question regarding answering with a library.
Function that adds two integer strings question is basically a home made algorithm for parsing and adding to arbitrarily large strings with ...
10
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1answer
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Upon finding a bug, should you continue reviewing? [duplicate]
Occasionally, when I am writing a review, I'll notice that the OP's code has a small typo in it that renders that part of their code broken.
Should I stop, delete my review, and leave them a comment ...
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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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September 2015 Community Challenge
It's time to choose a community-challenge for September 2015.
Post your challenge as an answer to this question. Feel free to resubmit non-winning ideas from previous months.
Vote for those answers ...
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1answer
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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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3answers
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Should we nuke this post from orbit?
Normally I wouldn't ask, I'd just kill it with fire. But this post is a bit... special.
How could I optimize this script?
It's an anti-post, a troll question... and yet, it's one we love to ...
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2answers
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Should questions with code from games be tagged [game]?
There are a few games, like TIS-100 that are based on programming. We've had a couple questions that ask for a review of code written in games like these, and all of them have been tagged game.
I'm ...
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Should I cast a VLQ flag on an answer that has a moderator notice on it?
This question has arisen from a discussion on the following question:
Best way to work with async
The answer posted was flagged as a Very Low Quality answer by a member of the community, to which ...
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1answer
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Should we clean up our sockets?
Sparked by this meta, I did a quick search for "socket.io" and came back with 21 hits. It seems to be enough to create a tag for it IMO, but I'm no web guy. I don't really understand what this ...
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2answers
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Should we have a [reactive-programming] tag?
In computing, reactive programming is a programming paradigm oriented around data flows and the propagation of change. This means that it should be possible to express static or dynamic data flows ...
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1answer
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Can we leverage tag info usage for Code Review?
I just checked the tag info for c++, which is basically a copy of the C++ tag info from Stack Overflow.
I though that was a bit of a waste. Have we had any thoughts about using this specifically for ...
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What to do when user insists you spoon feed them?
It has happened a few times that I have answered a question where the author is doing things in a round-about and complicated way. I tell author that there is a better way and show them how using a ...
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Do you have to speak the language to answer the question?
I frequently read in chat users saying things about not being able to answer this question or that because they don't know the language used in the question.
Is this true? What knowledge level is ...
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Should the [css] and [css3] tags be merged?
I can't think of any good reason why the css3 tag should exist on CR at all. There is currently a discussion going on over on Meta SO as to when the css3 tag is appropriate.
CSS3 is not a well ...
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Stack Overflow moderator declined to migrate question asking to shorten code
According to the FAQ, the following topics are wanted on Code Review:
Isn't there a point missing? I see a review of my code not only as an attempt to improve performance, security and structure, ...
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When is it okay to post multiple answers? [duplicate]
Recently, I decided to look over this post again.
As I was reading all the answers, I started to get the feeling that I had seen an answerer's name more than once. Scrolling back up the page, I found ...
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SELECT [sql-server] AS [t-sql] FROM tags
sql-server and t-sql (short for Transact-SQL) both represent practically the same thing, which is Microsoft's proprietary RDBMS.
From Wikipedia:
Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is Microsoft's and Sybase's ...
