Questions tagged [popular-questions]
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What should we do with "Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?"
Today we stumbled across an old question:
Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?
I'm going to ask what is probably quite a controversial question:
"Should one of the most popular encodings, UTF-16,...
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2answers
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Suggestion: Top referrers for popular questions
Every once in a while there seems to be a question which starts bringing in tons of traffic from an external link. For example, I've noticed that the question Why do programmers write applications ...
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1answer
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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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Frequently closing popular questions [duplicate]
Often on this site popular questions (either in terms of debate generated or upvotes) are closed for being against the mythical 6 guidelines.
Basically, the 6 guidelines do not currently seem to ...
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1answer
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Can we please cleanup this popular question?
This question appears to be quite popular:
Why are shortcuts like x += y considered good practice?
Currently it has over 34K views, making it in top 250 all time (top 150 if we discard closed ...
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1answer
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How do I find what made a question extremely popular?
A few days ago, someone posted an ordinary question, and I gave a mediocre answer.
During those days, the question received much attention and my answer received an abnormally high quantity of ...
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Regarding the "one return only" question
Regarding this question:
Where did the notion of “one return only” come from?
What should be done with it?
Nothing
Close
Delete
Wiki lock
Something else