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How to get at least a couple of examples of a topic on which "whole books have been written"?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/416068/what-are-the-tried-and-working-software-development-metodologies
Nowadays all the rage is agile, marketed as superior to waterfall. So ...
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What is actually on-topic for this site, if anything?
Before you link me to the page that explains the topics of the site, I've read it. But it seems extremely subjective and people who're doing the interpretation all seem to think just about nothing ...
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Negatively scored questions should be more aggressively hidden from the homepage
Right now, we have about 12 questions at -3 or lower on the homepage. This is after I closed and mod-deleted questions that are explicitly off-topic and very, very unlikely to be salvaged. It seems ...
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Unclear question is clarified in comment, later comment is deleted and contradictory clarification added to question
I recently encountered the following scenario:
OP asks a question which is missing some information.
Answerer asks for clarification in a comment.
OP clarifies in a comment but does not edit the ...
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Can't ask question so what next? [duplicate]
Previously I asked what to do after being blocked from asking question.
It looked like they are full of rhetoric on asking good questions but nothing on how to proceed after some questions are deemed &...
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Could those comments be moved to chat, and is this the right way to ask it?
My answer got a substantial amount of comments. The user commenting the most suggested recently to continue the discussion in chat, and this is indeed a great idea.
Would it be possible to move the ...
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Deleting low rated question to bypass the "You have reached your limit of questions" [duplicate]
I looked at this and wondering if I can delete my negative rated questions to ask another question, since there seems to be an arbitrary limit being imposed by what ever measure that might be, so ...
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Is this a question with answers or should I look elsewhere
My employer has instituted a policy whereby access to github is blocked at the network level. So if you attempt to go there using http/s its blocked, regardless of what you are accessing. This was ...
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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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How to ask for a list of usable criteria
In this post, I've asked for a list of criteria I can use to make a correct choice for a programming environment.
I received some pretty useless comments, and then, apparently after not more than 25 ...
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How can I improve this question about software architecture?
I have recently posted this question which quickly attracted downvotes and close votes. Some were accompanied by useful comments that helped me edit it to avoid some pitfalls (e.g. pros and cons).
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Should code smell and anti-pattern be synonomous in Software engineering stack exchange?
I was about to ask a question in the Software Engineering stack exchange channel. I noticed that tags exist for both anti-pattern and code smell.
But isnt every anti-pattern a code smell? and isnt ...
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Should there be a redirect from se.stackexchange.com?
When trying to navigate to Software Engineering Stack Exchange, I frequently find myself typing https://se.stackexchange.com into my browser instead of https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com.
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What is spam, according to Stack Exchange and Software Engineering.SE?
I just found two curious holes in the Stack Exchange definition of spam.
How to not be a spammer is only concerned with answers, not with questions. Neither What types of questions should I avoid ...
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"You have reached your question limit" issue
I am not sure why I can't create new question for software engineering stack exchange. The message is "You have reached your question limit". It has been a week.
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Interview questions are off-topic. What about questions that I, as the interviewer, have?
If I'm interviewing someone for a programming job and I have questions about how I'd best assess whether the candidate actually has a particular skill, would that be an on-topic questions?
An example ...
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Robert Harvey's reputation history is lying?
There were no net reputation changes that day, but it says -2. I don't know if it's appropriate to ask this, but what happened? And why is it lying?
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Suggestions to make my question about structuring a Python script more on-topic?
This always happens to me as a neophyte programmer. I devise a way to handle some meta-feature of my code. I can write workable code, but if you stray out of algorithms and best practices, and ask for ...
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Cloud computing vs. Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service
Which Stack Exchange best for https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/410410?
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How distinguish Cloud Computing vs. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS? I don't know computer science or programming...please ...
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When every question pertaining to Software Engineering has been more or less asked, do we broaden the scope of questions allowed to be asked?
Have other Stack Exchanges run into this, where activity slows due to the lack of novel questions remaining? Is that even seen as a problem?
If and when it does happen, would there be greater ...
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Can we *please* stop with the wanton deletions
Really, is this question detrimental to SE? Should it be wiped out? Closing as "opinion-based" wasn't enough?
(I didn't ask for opinions. I asked for arguments, pros and cons. How else is anyone ...
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Is this the right place for a question about hosting e-commerce improvement
I work as a developer (focused on design and frontend - some knowladge on backend / server) but I work alone providing full service for my clients. One of them has an e-commerce growing a lot! To a ...
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Should we add a warning to tag legal
Today I realized we have a tag legal on the main site with the excerpt
Questions about legal problems which may arise during software development or questions about software law, patents and ...
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Now that 3 close votes has been proven and implemented on Stack Overflow, can we have the same on Software Engineering, please?
I won't belabor the research by repeating it here. It's been described in exhaustive detail at this post.
The executive summary:
Closing, editing and reopening all become more effective.
Can we ...
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21k rep but "Not enough reputation to answer or unprotect"
I got a notice that an answer I gave a while ago got upvoted. Looks like there's been some activity on the question. I saw a notice saying that I don't have enough rep to vote or unprotect the ...
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How do I rename a tag I created?
I would like to rename multi-file-applications to multi-file-programming. It sounds better and is not necessarily specific to applications. multi-file-applications also sounds a bit weird. How can I ...
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What is the process after a closed question was been edited to meet all the requirements but the reviewers don't react?
I asked a question.
The question was very shortly after closed by moderators without any comments. Isn't this bad practice? This also annoyed another contributor who was writing a detailed answer to ...
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Can we also get rid of [design-decisions]?
Motivated by Glorfindel's last meta question, I checked the tag design-decisions as well. It is currently used for only 21 questions.
However, I think half of the on-topic questions on this site ...
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Can we decide to get rid of [decisions]?
The decisions currently has 30 questions, no tag excerpt and is used for all kinds of decisions: design-decisions (also a vague tag), technical decisions, decision tables. Not surprisingly, since ...
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Closed as dupe. Can't see duplicate link
I know the stack crew is messing with the close experience but I haven't heard anything about closing as dupe no longer offering a link to the dupe. Please let me know what's going on when I see this:
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How can I ask multiple questions in the same "question"?
I have asked multiple questions in the following thread:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/408184/server-side-javascript-rendering-ssr-from-java
Since I have no previous ...
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Where should questions comparing different ways of doing the same thing in a given language go?
I'm perplexed about the relative merits of the three ways of getting a list of a dictionary's keys in Python. Obviously that is off topic for Stack Overflow because it is an opinion question (at least ...
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What is the purpose of making the question a link which redirects back to the same question
Reproduce:
Go to Why would you store an enum in DB?
Click on the title of the question
The browser is redirected to the same question.
Whenever I try copying the text of the question I accidentally ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Can the 'test question' feature be disabled in the the first posts review queue
I just wrote a detailed comment to a poster only to find out it was a test question and my work was in vain. I think this is silly. I don't want to spin my wheels and put thought into a comment for ...
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Reopen request for my question
I am requesting to have this question reopened. Because of a flag declined comment, I have been told to ask reopen requests on meta. This image serves as proof, even though this question is a ...
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Why can't I chat anywhere even though I am not suspended on software engineering?
Why can't I chat anywhere even though I am not suspended? What is the "Parent site?" The parent user is not suspended. Can someone tell me what is going on?
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Question about design rationale / history of CSS feature closed as "opinion-based"?
My question Inline HTML elements don't allow setting “width” - why is that? was just closed as "opinion-based".
I'm a bit confused as to why. I'm not asking for opinion, I'm asking for the rationale ...
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Is the [recruiting] tag on topic?
The recruiting has been around for a while. That tag info appears to have been copied from Wikipedia. It has 14 questions, the 12 oldest of which are closed. Does this tag invite off-topic content?...
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Hostile community
I have been banned from the software engineering community for no real reason.
My contributions were quite positive and in areas no one bothered to contribute.
And even if they were not so positive, ...
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I'm banned after a well-received question?
My last question was this one: To show the difference between system VMs and JVMs.
It was upvoted 3 times, though currently it's only 2. The answer is upvoted 3 times as well. The question isn't ...
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Moderators: stop deleting benign comments!
OK, I'm going to escalate this to a formal complaint. The active deletion of comments that are not harmful to the site has to stop.
Under this answer, there was a brief but meaningful dialog in the ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Is it ok to try to enforce vague, opionated rules?
Sometimes, I see people go into the comments and post links like the following and starting discussions
Why is asking a question on "best practice" a bad thing?
But other times when I look ...
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Why was my comment deleted?
On this question, I left a comment to the effect of
You should write equality tests that make sense for your specific object. This may or may not include all of the properties of said object.
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Why were the comments on this answer locked?
Why is JavaScript not compiled to bytecode before sending over the network?
Really?
Please use comments for improving or clarifying the provided answer, in a civil tone. Personal attacks and ...
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7 years old closed as off-topic question (4 years ago) being edited
I know that sometimes tags are being removed and old questions are edited.
Today a 7 years old question closed 4 years ago as off-topic received two (103 rep) updates (3917 rep) that only fixes ...
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Is this question on-topic here?
Not sure if SE is the right place to ask, so checking first...
I am writing a web-based app for use in a private office (local network, no outside access). We have an agreement that they are not to ...
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Can moderators please provide me links to all my posts that have been deleted?
Can moderators please provide me links to all my posts that have been deleted? I am constantly looking for some posts but realize they have been deleted and how cheerful it is. For example, I am ...
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Why is the question "Is it a bad design for a programming language to allow spaces in identifiers" primarily opinion based?
I was checking the "top questions of week" and I just saw the following question was put on hold with the reason "primarily opinion based":
Is it a bad design for a programming language to allow ...
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