Linked Questions
23 questions linked to/from Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative Phase II
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How do I explain ${something} to ${someone}?
One of the not infrequently asked questions that shows up on Software Engineering.SE is along the lines of:
I am trying to explain the differences between a NoSQL database and a relational database ...
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On the troubles of naming and terminology
Difficulty with naming has a bit of a history with programming.
There are two hard problems in computer science: caching, naming, and off by one errors.
It has been repeatedly revisited on meta ...
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
This experiment is over. I will be adding an answer to show the results and suggest a plan for going forward.
For the next 30 days, closing a question will require just 3 votes. Also 3 votes will be ...
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On discussions and why they don't make good questions
I'll start off with the irony of this question being tagged with a discussion and point out that meta is different.
Why don't discussion questions work in Stack Exchange? What is it about the ...
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Every day we get opinionated questions asked here. People seem to think that this is the place to ask them. New users point to the old open questions that have fallen through the cracks of time as ...
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Are book recommendations on-topic?
We get a lot of book recommendation questions, so much so that it's hard to keep up with them.
We've been closing them as off-topic, not a real question, and not constructive based on a few different ...
user8
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Why do certification questions keep getting closed?
Whenever I look at certification questions on the front page or in tags, they seem to be closed.
Why is this?
user40980
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What types of legal questions are on-topic here?
I know legal issues are in the faq as on-topic but I could not find an existing discussion of it.
Do legal questions such as the iPhone issue or non-paying customer question really have a place here? ...
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When is a software licensing question on topic?
I would like to ask a question about software licensing. The help center says:
If you have a question about...
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software licensing
and it is not about...
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legal advice or aid
It seems like ...
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Provide 10k users more close votes
Please provide 10k+ users more close votes.
Why?
Putting questions on-hold in a timely fashion is critical in providing useful feedback to new users. It's rare for salvageable questions to be put on-...
user53019
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Why do 'some examples' and 'list of things' questions get closed?
A common form of question that is often asked is the "what are some examples of..." While this is hinted at in the help center
Please make sure that your question is not too broad, or strongly ...
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The "Professional Engineers" question has 2/3 reopen votes AND 3/4 delete votes; what's going on here?
Can Software Engineers become certified Professional Engineers (PE)?
This question was closed by the community as off-topic career advice back in June 2014. It has not received any edits aside from ...
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Improve question quality by informing askers of expectations in some career related tags
Over here at Programmers, a lot of askers seems to misunderstand site-specific expectations of career related questions, which frequently results in questions closure and deletions.
Propose to help ...
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Can we get a tag-warning for [licensing] and [open-source] tags?
Yesterday, I learned about a feature of the SE sites which was new to me: tag-warnings. It appears to me those would be a perfect match for licensing and open-source, since both tags often indicate ...
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Reconsider historical lock on "How many monitors do you use? Why? How they are used?"
The post https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/2757/40980 has the question body of:
Why more or less monitors is worse than your configuration?
Why is important use it in this way (position)...
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