Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Is this question inappropriate for Programmers? Can we reopen it?
This question, which was just closed, seems appropriate to me. My reasons:
the asker is trying to learn about functional programming
when reading an article about FP, the asker wasn't able to ...
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please tell me how to delete my P.SE account [closed]
I would like to delete only my P.SE account only, but I can't find the directions anywhere.
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Can someone add a new tag to this question? [closed]
I just asked a question, and surprisingly, there is no feature-creep tag! Can someone add it? I have less than 300 rep ATM
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remove CW status for this answer? (OO-principles for Javascript by Daniel)
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/180588/31260
Above answer has been made CW per automatic rule (quote source):
The post has been edited ten (10) times by the original owner.
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Can an answer be undeleted?
I was stupid an answered a question with just a link. I then went back and edited my answer to actually something useful, only to find that no one will ever see it again because a moderator deleted ...
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Close Dialog Display Bug
Whenever I open the close question dialog on my laptop's 13" display, the upper portion of the popup winds up on top of the "Questions Tags Users..." navigation bar, but due to an issue with the ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [os] → [operating-systems]
Please merge tag os (12 questions) into operating-systems (65), and make them synonyms.
Both tags do not have wiki, only excerpts. For the reference, current excerpts are quoted below
os
An ...
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What is the difference between [class] and [classes] tags? - synonym request
What is the difference between class (25 questions) and classes (19 questions) tags?
Neither of above have tag wiki, a handful of questions I randomly picked appear to use these as freely ...
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Tag: Synonym TFS with Team Foundation Server
Can we make the following tags a synonym: tfs -> team-foundation-server
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C++ tag synonyms
Apparently, there are two duplicate(?) tags: c++11 and c++0x. The only difference between the two is that c++0x was the WIP name before c++11 was finalized (at the last few meetings).
For someone ...
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Get rid of the “don't call yourself a programmer” link in our FAQ
Wow, we link to "Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice" by Patrick McKenzie in our FAQ? Sure he's got some brutally true snippets in there, but overall it's a bad article.
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Merge node tags
As far as I can tell, we've got two tags for Node.js: node.js and nodejs. Can we merge them to reduce confusion?
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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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Shouldn't the nlp tag be replaced with natural-language-processing?
It seems like nlp should be changed to natural-language-processing and that nlp should be used as a synonym of it instead because it is less apparent what nlp is.
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get rid of tag “licence”
Let's get rid of licence tag. Currently, there are 15 questions there.
Tag name is misspelled, and the right tag for these questions is already there means the same as another tag - license, which in ...
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Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
I'm seeing this on Chromium 22 (Windows & Linux) & Firefox 15 (Windows):
The footer line is a bit in the way. Tried the usual clearing of caches/hard refresh but that doesn't seem to help....
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Programmers SE Menu - Whitespace Doesn't Link
On the Programmers SE site, the menu (with links to Questions, Tags, ect) has a line drawn and text changed to red (or gray in meta) when hovering over that menu item. However, the user must hover ...
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Footer line isn't where it's supposed to be in review stats and history
This is how the stats for the low quality posts queue looks like:
Same thing happens in the history tab, for example check out the first posts history.
Just in case this is browser specific, I'm on ...
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Can the SE chat bot post our blog posts in the Whiteboard?
The SE chat bot posts new Stack Exchange blog posts in The Whiteboard, can it also do the same for our Community Blog?
Please?
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1answer
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Tag merge / synonym request: [degrees] -> [degree]
Please merge degrees (4 questions) into degree (20 questions).
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Mod dialog in review doesn't show up properly (and a bonus feature request)
Let's start with the feature request.
When reviewing answers we have two mod links, when reviewing questions we only have the one. Having the mod link under the post feels a bit more natural, as ...
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What can we do about extremely low quality questions from unregistered users?
The problem
Tons of extremely low quality questions from unregistered accounts. A few recent examples:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/162691/question-on-pl-sql-evaluate-the-...
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Tag merge / synonym requests: [prototype] -> [prototyping], [type-system] -> [type-systems]
Please merge the following tags and make them synonyms:
prototype (14 questions) into prototyping (25)
type-system (18 questions) into type-systems (6)
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Locked posts shouldn't show up for review
This post came up while using the new "Review Low Quality Posts" tool, but it wouldn't let me vote because the post is locked. If you can't vote on it, it shouldn't pop up for review in the first ...
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review of [space] tag
Another tag for collective review:
space has four links.
Two are recent, and very similar to each other referencing space from the Mars probe.
The third has space as the 5th tag, and it's discussing ...
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Blacklist [subjective]
I thought subjective was blacklisted already, but it made its way onto a recent question.
It's one of the unholy trinity of bad meta-tags: can it be blacklisted here?
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Post history markdown diffs overlapping [closed]
When I look at the history of some post and switch to markdown diff, the left half of the diff overlaps the right part and both continue outside the screen.
For example, this history looks like this ...
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Question closed and locked but can't down vote to get off front page after a year?
Why is the question Pros and cons of PHP vs C,C++ as language in a programming interview? [closed] locked?
I mean it is one thing to close it, I agree with that, it meets at least 3 criteria for ...
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What's the upper character limit for a post's size? (and implement a warning system for it)
I seem to have reached this limit while editing my answer to:
I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code -- what now?
This is a bit frustrating, as the editor didn't warn me, so I typed away ...
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Change the name of Programmers to something that more accurately reflects the site scope? [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to the discussion on renaming the site to match its FAQ, or changing the FAQ to match the site name.
That discussion is one of the highest voted questions on here, so this ...
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Is it possible to retrieve an answer to a deleted question?
A couple years ago, I wrote an answer to a question that appears to have been deleted. I was just thinking that I wanted to write a blog post based on that answer, and I'd rather not have to rewrite ...
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99 notifications? [closed]
Suddenly I'm getting '99 notifications', though only 4 are shown, 3 of these stale.
This was only seen on programmers.SO; other sites show no new notifications, as they should.
This was a freshly ...
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Should we mention The Workplace in our FAQ?
Sort of following up on How should we guide questions toward The Workplace? I was thinking our FAQ's bit that says we're NOT about "career advice, including general workplace issues" to explicitly ...
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Do we need to black list the [beginners] tag?
A while ago we cleaned up the beginners tag, but it has returned.
Do we need to ban the `beginners` tag?
Is now the time to request it gets added to the black list (after another clean up)?
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Kill the [help] tag
Most, if not all, people that use the site need help. So why do we have help?
Let's kill it!
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Reopening “When programmers talk about ”data structures“, what are they referring to?”
Software terminology is on-topic here, however my question When programmers talk about "data structures", what are they referring to? got closed as "not a real question"
The question was asked ...
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remove CW status for this answer? (hashing algorithms testing by Ian Boyd)
Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?
Particular answer to above question has been made CW per automatic rule (quote source):
The post has been edited ten (10) times by 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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Tag merge / synonym request: [interface] -> [interfaces]
Could we merge interface questions (41 total) into interfaces (10 total), and make them synonyms?
Side note given the number of questions, I'd bet 4:1 that "interface" makes better master tag. But ...
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Can we change the name of the chat room? [closed]
Other Stack Exchange sites have interesting and descriptive names for their chat rooms while ours is just "Programmers". Would it be possible to change it to something more like those sites?
Let's ...
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The “&” in the title font doesn't look anything like an ampserand
This is supposed to read:
Admin > Upcoming & Current Community Events.
I don't know what the symbol is in there, but it certainly doesn't look like "&".
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Why Can't I Edit Tag Wikis?
I have edited a couple tag wikis today, and was trying to edit some more, but now, when I try to edit them, the same screen that usually comes up comes up, but without the box to edit the tag wiki…Why ...
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Tag merge / synonym request: [off-shore] → [offshore]
Could we merge off-shore questions (10 total) into offshore (3 total), and make them synonyms?
Side note. distributed-development looks also worth considering as merge / synonym candidate for above.
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What's the current status of the P.SE blog?
Activity for our blog was great initially, however it died down a month or two ago and never seemed to recover.
I know at the time of writing this question, there is 1 post done, 2 being reviewed, ...
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Programmers.SE Contest: New Proposal [closed]
The last celebration proposal we had never got off of it's feet. In fact, the Birthday Celebration Proposal's time has come, and it left a long time ago. So a few other P.SE members and I came up with ...
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Please Close This Question
Please close this question ASAP.
I'm not sure if I've ever seen a non-spam question that was more off-topic.
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Structured Tag Cleanup: [software-development] [closed]
Related:
Request for comment: structured tag cleanups
Structured Tag Cleanup — Call for proposals #1
Welcome to the third structured tag cleanup!
Based on the voting in the call for ...
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Blacklist [software-engineering]
software-engineering was recently cleaned up, through the Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative. Obviously since we already identified it as a tag that doesn't belong and we went through the trouble of ...
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Tag Synonym: unit-tests -> unit-testing
I was just doing some STCI cleanup for stci-software-engineering and noticed that there was both a unit-tests and unit-testing tag. There are only 8 questions tagged unit-tests, 7 of which are also ...
