Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
For questions about the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.
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Post notice for duplicating question does not show the duplicated question
Question: Why do we still use JavaScript?
Do you have any idea?
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A question was closed as duplicate even though the supposed duplicate was younger
I answered a question some years ago that was widely accepted to be the canonical answer to the very common question-- I think I had over a 200 upvotes and the answer alone added 2000 rep to my ...
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This question already has answers... where?
For this question: if/else statements or exceptions
I feel like the "Possible Duplicate" text should not be there, and the "Defensive Programming vs Exception Handling?" question ...
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When is it appropriate to vote to close as a duplicate?
An interesting discussion about duplicate closures happened in this question's comments section:
Personally, I'm in the "duplicate means duplicate question" camp. However, since it appears two ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Software Engineering
Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.
More information on the project and ...
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How is user without gold tag badge closing questions as duplicates with no other votes?
Lately, I've seen a number of questions closed as duplicates with only gnat's vote, such as When to make classes that do multiple things?
As far as I know, the only legitimate way to do this is by ...
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Get people that have marked a question as a duplicate to review it since changes have been made
I have a question When testing is it OK to use a method of the subject to test another method of the subject?
This isn't a duplicate of [Is there any value in writing a unit test that is a subset of ...
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On duplicates and other close reasons
One of those topics occasionally bantered about in chat, and with a bit more frequency lately is about how we close with duplicates and what these questions should be.
The idealized flow with closing ...
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cross-site duplicates and migration
I just saw a question about pre and post increment operators in programmers.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/299986/variable-variable-and-variable1?noredirect=1
I don't often ...
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Is there a canonical "composition over inheritance" question?
Today I answered this question:
Should I use strategy design pattern or something else?
After some back and forth with the asker in the comments, I thought it prudent to bring up the point that ...
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How to handle BDD / TDD duplicate questions?
Recently, @gnat proposed a duplicate where this is the source:
What is the difference between writing test cases for BDD and TDD?
and this is the target:
Relation between BDD and TDD
I agree that ...
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How would you clean up a question asking if you've written readable and easily maintainable code?
The topic of code quality comes up often enough that there is a wiki Q&A devoted to it:
How would you know if you've written readable and easily maintainable code?
There are currently 103 ...
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Reopen good, but duplicate, question
This post was closed as a duplicate, which perhaps it is, but the original question contains a single answer that doesn't really add much to the question. The recent, duplicate question has many more ...
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Reopen question that is not a dupe
I recently asked a question that was closed as a dupe of two other similar, but not related questions. I edited my question to clarify why it is not a dupe, however I was too late and the question was ...
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Why was this question closed as duplicate
Clean Code comments vs class documentation was closed as a duplicate of "Comments are a code smell"
There are a couple of reasons I'm finding this difficult to understand.
First, they ...
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Are these questions duplicates of each other?
The following two questions were asked recently and marked as potential duplicates of each other:
Java: why is there a Comparator interface but no Hasher and Equator?
Why is .compareTo() in an ...
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Possible Duplicate returns 404
The question https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/159369/67524 is marked as a duplicate, however the duplicate link returns 404.
What is the appropriate action going forward here?
Should ...
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Update required for the close questions help page?
Referring to: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions
Specifically for duplicates it states:
When should I vote to close a question?
Questions should be ...
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Questions related to "deliberate practice" are all marked duplicate, locked, or closed
There exists an excellent question:
How to Deliberately Practice Software Engineering?
This question is marked a duplicate of the following questions:
Continuous Professional development – the best ...
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"How can I compare and contrast open source licenses?" - canonical dupe for license shopping?
While pondering upon today's usual license shopping request I discovered this old question:
How can I compare and contrast open source licenses?
Would it make sense to make above a canonical ...
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Help me understand the difference between these two questions
What's wrong with comments that explain complex code?
after writing a complex piece of code written in a partly human-readable programming language, why not add a descriptive and concise ...
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Abuse of "Duplicate" tag
Check out Does dedicated maintenance work hamper a programmer's career?. I was reading the answers with interest, and considering adding my own, when I realized that the question had been tagged ...
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If a duplicate question has a different accepted answer, does this imply the question is too opinion based?
There are two questions on whether one should lower his coding practices to meet those of the surrounding team:
Simplicity-efficiency tradeoff
If my team has low skill, should I lower the skill of my ...
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How to reopen question that was marked as duplicate but it is clearly not a duplicate
The question below was marked as a duplicate. However, it is very clear based on the comments associated with the question I posted that my question is not the same as to what it is marked as.
What ...
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False duplicate: “Why is BigDecimal the best data type for currency?”
The question Why is BigDecimal the best data type for currency? has been marked as a duplicate of a question about numerical approximation of floating point data.
Persons who recognised this as a ...
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Dupe of deleted question
This question is marked as a dupe of a deleted question.
Please unmark it as dupe, or resurrect the deleted question.
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How can I improve this question and get answers I want?
Can someone tell me what's wrong with this question? How can I improve it?
I'm in the field of EEE but I'm not specializing in software
engineering. Yesterday, i had an impromptu idea to develop ...
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Is it possible for moderators to move answers from one question to another?
I've just been reading this question: How can a single developer make use of Agile Methods?. And after refreshing, I saw it was closed for being a duplicate to Agile for the Solo Developer. I don't ...
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Review mode, attention check: how do I see other votes to close?
Sequence of events:
I review votes to close.
I see a question. It looks fine. Why is it here?
I press "Close" to see if there's a proposed 'exact duplicate' in other close votes.
"We were checking if ...
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Multiple indirection in closed duplicates and transitivity of duplicates
I find it hilarious that this question was closed as a duplicate of a question which is in turn a duplicate of a question closed as off-topic!
I realize questions may be closed at any time, not only ...
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What does it take for a question to be a duplicate?
I just learned that this question is a duplicate of some other question (the link to which is supplied now in the first question). Reading through both questions I cannot see how one could defer the ...
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Question closed as a duplicate of a question that has since been deleted
This:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/40296/what-is-the-best-java-programming-book-out-there-for-starters
Was closed as a duplicate. The question it was allegedly a duplicate ...
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Is it appropriate to copy-paste an answer when it matches both questions, but those questions are not an exact duplicate?
It was suggested to me to copy-paste my answer to another question which I marked as duplicate, but which looks larger than the original question.
I was totally against this technique: duplicating an ...
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What to do when similar but worse worded question has great answer for this one
There is a question, How to promote code reuse and documentation?, which I think is well worded, but new and only got a few average answers so far. It was also suggested that it's a duplicate of How ...
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Can this question be reopened? [closed]
This question was closed for being an exact duplicate, but I modified it extensively so that it now discusses a particular condition to wrapping third party code.
In its previous condition the ...
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Require a link to the question it is a duplicate of
When people vote to close a question, and more importantly when it is closed, a link to the duplicate question should be displayed in all cases.
This should one, reduce the number of claims of "exact ...
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What should I do if I think a good question got closed as a duplicate to a worse question?
I noticed Why do we need private variables? got closed as a duplicate of Do ALL your variables need to be declared private?, but I thought the first question and its answers were much better than the ...
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How can something be an exact duplicate when it is asking the exact opposite?
I am curious as to the reasoning behind closing https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/142186/22493 as an exact duplicate of Java dev learning Python: what concepts do I need to wrap my ...
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If you realize you answered a duplicate question, should you move your answer?
I just answered a question and then another SE user pointed out it was a duplicate. Not only was the question asking about almost the same topic, but question body was literally copy/pasted. Usually, ...
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Voting to close - duplicate of a closed question
I recently marked a question (subsequently closed as not constructive) as an exact duplicate of another, closed question.
Another user questioned this as being nonsensical. While the question wasn't ...
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What is the current policy for questions that are duplicates of stack overflow?
I did read a very similar question to the question I'm asking now, but found it confusing, and it was more about when this site was in beta.
I just flagged a question that was, arguably, an exact ...
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A Duplicate? Seriously?
@Mark Trapp marked:
what do i need to learn in order to get an entry level asp.net job?
as a duplicate of
If you develop with ASP.NET, which other technologies do you use?
These questions aren't ...
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Cross Site Questions
I think we should allow for a question to be listed on multiple sites, if it meets the charter of both sites. There would be a feature similar to the "migrate" feature except it will be a "share with ...
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Is there a way to ask a question contrasting the advantages or differences of C# and VB.NET without it being closed?
I was told to come ask this here, so hopefully it doesn't get closed or down voted here too.
I've always been curious why people seem to move from VB to C# when VB.NET seems to have some technical ...
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Why "Where to find “good” clients?" closed?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/68724/where-to-find-good-clients
I specificity bold this line:
I’m simply search for a site that ranks clients based on employer/freelancers ...
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How to handle (flag) duplicates across stackexchange sites.
This question on Programmers:
What is the datastore used by Google for Google Instant?
Is pretty much an exact duplicate of this on on SO: How does Google Instant work?
Quite rightly, the answer to ...
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These two questions are not duplicates
These two questions
Question you really want to ask AS a potential EMPLOYER but cannot?
Question you really want to ask AS a potential EMPLOYEE but cannot?
are obviously related, but not duplicates. ...
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Why do we use the phrase exact duplicate instead of just duplicate?
Why is the phrase "exact duplicate" used instead of just "duplicate"? Can there be an inexact duplicate? I've actually never seen an exact duplicate of another question (i.e. word for word the same) ...
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Consolidating Several Questions Marked as Duplicates
We've got some questions that seem to cover very similar ground, specifically:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/282/what-are-the-best-podcasts
https://softwareengineering....
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What is the best? VS What is your favorite? VS What X to use?
What is the best X? versus
What is your favorite X? versus What X to use?
I'm wondering if such questions result in the same answer, often the best is your favorite and vice-versa.
My guess is that ...
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