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If I pose a question and later learn the premise was wrong, is it best to edit the question or leave it?
If I ask a question about a data structure saying 'I currently have data structure X, how do I do Y with it?' and someone answers with 'You actually have data structure Z, this is how you do Y with it'...
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Are questions that have answers on other websites OK on Stack Overflow? [closed]
Following a comment I received on this:
Are questions that have answers on other websites OK on Stack Overflow?
For example, questions that have answers on the Pytorch forums, such as this one.
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Is it good to provide a GitHub link to whole source code rather than a snippet in question? [closed]
I am facing a problem in my code. But I am completely unaware of what part of the code is causing the problem. I can explain in details about what problems I am facing, but not what might be causing ...
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Considering Reviewing Questions which may seem duplicate!
I think we should consider not marking questions which may seem duplicate as being duplicates (especially in the case of StackOverflow.)
We have a lot of new users every day. Some may be capable of ...
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Does stack overflow have a forum?
I really like this site for reference and the experience of others. I think it would be nice to be able to ask questions that require experience and a sprinkle of opinion.
For example, the other day ...
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New Question Vs. Old Thread [duplicate]
If I find similar questions on StackOverflow that haven't been updated in years (which likely include outdated information), is it better to ask a new question, or continue the conversation in the old ...
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Can I ask interview programming questions at Stack Overflow? [closed]
I recently have asked couple of programming questions on Stack Overflow which were asked to me during an interview process. I embedded my solution code in the question and asked for a better/optimized ...
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What is the best way to upvote [duplicate]
This may sound like an odd question, but this is what I have the most trouble understanding on Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites). What is the correct way to upvote? Should I upvote every ...
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Does StackOverflow automatically filter what I see on the homepage?
I'm trying to work out if there are vastly more questions on web development than on other topics, or whether my view of the homepage is being prefiltered- or both.
When I log onto the home page, I ...
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Is StackOverflow for professional programmers or for newbiew too? [duplicate]
As stated in: https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic
Stack Overflow is for professional and enthusiast programmers, people
who write code because they love it. We feel the best Stack Overflow
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Series of questions - yes or no - how to do it properly
I have recently tried to solve programming problems using questions on stackoverflow and database-administrators sites.
I have observed following pattern in my behavior:
Simplier questions are ...
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Questions where code has too many issues to cover in a simple answer
I sometimes see questions like this one: Function not returning proper value, looking for a value in a list, where the OP is asking about a specific incorrect outcome, but the code itself has too many ...
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Should all opinion-based questions be put On Hold?
I posted a question today that was a bit odd in terms of questions on SO. It was a little vague but I really needed help with it.
Question Here
It has been put on hold due to "opinion-based" ...
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Binary Bomb Questions
I've noticed a surge in 'Binary Bomb' questions on SO. That is, the assignment gives a disassembly (typically x86), and what parameters / inputs are needed to avoid the explode_bomb function call.
I'...
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Get number of questions by tag name
I am just curious to know whether there is a way to find out which tag has got most number of questions on a day.
Like at the moment, i see 582,073 questions overall for java tag, 531,473 questions ...
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Should I post a question if I know the answer is "it's a bug"?
Let's assume that I've found some behaviour in a language/library/client etc. that is definitively, provably, incorrect; for instance a function called 5 times executes 6 times in one context in one ...
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Should there be more strict rules in order to ask a Question? [closed]
Is it me or the Questions in SO are getting extremely overwhelmed?
And the bad thing (in my opinion ) is that the most of the Qs are bad in every sense.
This fact can have serious drawbacks. if in ...
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Stackoverflow question on queforum [duplicate]
I have a few questions on stackoverlow. 1 of them is unanswered so i searched for similar things to find a solution. During my google search i found this. It is exactly my stackoverflow question (the ...
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Implicit Questions?
Recently I have noticed a few cases of implicit questions. The intended question is obvious, clear, and meets Stack Overflow requirements, but never explicitly stated. Does a Stack Overflow post ...
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Questions Regarding Capabilities of Specific Libraries
I was curious what the consensus is regarding questions on SO about a specific capability of a certain library/API/SDK. For example: "Can Amazon AWS perform X in Y fashion" type questions. What I'm ...
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Where to ask a Meteor question on Stack Overflow?
The Meteor doc links to Stack Overflow. I am surprised 4 out of the 5 top voted Meteor questions are closed. As a Meteor newbie, those questions are exactly what I am going to ask.
Where should I ask ...
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Should Stack Overflow questions always include a SSCCE?
I see many questions closed with the following, when code samples are not required and irrelevant:
Questions concerning problems with code you've written must describe
the specific problem — and ...
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Are "what language...?" questions on-topic? [duplicate]
The phrase "what language" in a title tends to be followed by one of:
"is this?" (code snippet)
"should I use for X?"
"is X programmed in?"
See "what language", "what languages"
I'd argue that
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Prompting users to a different question in the comments section of a question
I have prompted users (senior/experts users) on questions asked by other users, to have a look at some similar questions or to the question I have asked in the past, but it didn't get enough attention....
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What should we really ask on Stack Overflow? [closed]
I've been a user for a year now and have decent reputation. But sometimes, I really wonder what questions we should ask and how. Most of the time, questions are downvoted because of sheep voting ...
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Facebook questions are weirdly ignored?
Am I extremely wrong, or are facebook question weirdly ignored?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/facebook-javascript-sdk?sort=newest&pageSize=30
Barely a single upvote for any question ...
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Off Topic questions [duplicate]
Recently I asked a question in stack overflow about creating an HTML5 report designer .The current reporting services (crystal reports,Xtra reports) etc creates reports at server side.Since this ...
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Why do similar questions get very different responses on StackOverflow?
I am new to Stack Overflow and programming in general. I am here to learn how to get better.
I asked a question here and was ridiculed. But someone asked the inverse here and was praised. What am I ...
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My questions do not appear on Stack Overflow main page [duplicate]
Few months back, when I asked some question at stackoverflow.com, it used to appear on its main page questions list, in just few minutes. But for my last 2 questions, (during last 20 days) I've ...
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On Stack Overflow if there is a question that addresses your problem, but there is no solution that works, should you repost a similar question?
There is a question on Stack Overflow that addresses an issue I am having, however after trying all of the posted answers, I am still encountering the issue. What should I do? Should I post a new ...
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How bad questions work [closed]
I understand that in a question that the asker hasn't tried to solve by themselves is a bad question e.g. how do I write a program to...
If that question is very narrow, specific and not obvious ...
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Ask for architecture evaluation
As a novice in software architecture, i believe it would be a great source of knowledge feedback from the community in form of "evaluation". I was thinking in something like:
describe the "problem"
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Can I ask a question about problems with my IDE on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I'm having a problem with my Netbeans IDE and I'm not sure if I can ask about it on Stack Overflow.
Can I ask question about problems with my IDE on Stack Overflow?
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Does a fiddle provide enough information to "Describe the specific problem" [duplicate]
I'm specifically talking about this question How to force background down whole page when content overflows?. A couple of people have said this should be closed because it:
Questions concerning ...
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When does a question on stackoverflow cross over from a learning experience to a free consultation?
It's one thing to ask a question on stackoverflow to learn to solve a problem or figure out a solution. It's another thing to get some free consultation. Where does one draw the line? Are there any ...
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Are programming career-related question allowed on SO?
Am I allowed to ask questions related to "what can I do with this knowledge for" theme on Stack Overflow? Of course, in the topic of programming.
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What more can we do for string-manipulation questions that ask for a regex solution when non-regex solutions would be OK too?
I find we have a very common class of problem here:
Someone needs to do some string manipulation
They recognise that a regex is one of the possible solutions, even if there are valid solutions which ...
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What tags should we use for 2 open source projects with the same name? [closed]
I am part of the dev team of Silex, an open source website builder. We think of getting rid of the old forums of Silex and we would like to send the users to Stack Overflow instead.
But the problem ...
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How should you ask for help on a project you can't start?
Real World Example
I'm trying to pass a connection from a Socket.IO server to WebRTC. The documentation for WebRTC's javascript API's is difficult to come by. I feel like "How do you establish a Data ...
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What should happen to questions that will never help anyone?
I see a lot of questions on StackOverflow that will never help anyone in the future, JanDvorak's quote explains what question's I'm talking about.
"Haven't you heard? Crowdsourcing to ...
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What to do when a user reposts a question repeatedly?
This question has been posted by this user multiple times. Each time, other users ask for clarification, why it's not a duplicate of his earlier question, etc. After enough comments have accumulated, ...
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Canonical "floating point comparison" question? [closed]
We got another “my floating point values don’t compare as equal” question again today.
When we get a “Null reference exception” question I often point them to John Saunders’ excellent canonical ...
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Are questions about software development tools, but NOT asking for references, off topic?
For example, I came across How to install Haskell cabal tool for Haskell... while looking at the reopen review queue:
I don't have links to others off the top of my head, but I've seen quite a few ...
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How can I improve my two Python3 questions?
I have two questions that recently received one down-vote each. They receive both up and down votes occasionally, but they now stand with a score of zero.
How can I improve them so they get more up-...
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Does anyone else think the filter system for questions needs some consideration?
Okay so I want to look at questions from the criteria - my favourite tags, new AND unanswered. This seems like it would be a regular request right why must I sift through all the other stuff when that ...
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Where does this question fit into the new closing rules? [closed]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17394315/is-this-input-option-for-select#17394315
I am not sure which category this question fits into. Is it too broad because it asks "if anyone has a better ...
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Is this question a give me teh codez or a legitimate question?
I think the javascript tag gets a lot of "Here is what I need" questions because there are a lot of beginner programmers using javascript (especially jquery), and they get stuck.
But when they get ...
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Asking if certain tools contain certain features?
I am doing a research on monetization tools for Android and mobile in general.
Would be appropriate to ask on Stack Overflow which monetization tools offer me certain features? I am not talking about ...
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Confusion regarding kinds of question to be asked [closed]
I am a bit confused with the kind of questions that can be valid to be asked on SO. Many times I face such problems too, but then I refrain from asking them on SO, thinking its not fit to be here. Not ...
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Is it time to tighten up the question quality filter?
As everyone here well knows, we get a lot of questions on Stack Overflow. And, as some of us here probably already know, there is a quality filter in place for new users:
Also, there are certain ...
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