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Activity for Lundin
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| Comment | Post #278830 |
The C book list on SO is _not_ canonical, it's a complete fiasco and a perfect example of how horribly wrong community-maintained resource collections can go when they aren't actually maintained. Note the "Warning!" disclaimer on top of the post and the meta discussion. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278780 |
Physical vs virtual memory has nothing to do with the subject. From a general computer perspective, memory segments either reside in RAM or ROM, where RAM is a sloppy but industry standard term for "read/write memory". (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278791 |
Regarding stack & heap specifically, that was a good call. There is the data type stack and there is heapsort. Dynamic memory allocation and heapsort in particular have nothing to do with each other. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278817 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What is our policy on tags? Luckily, we are in a position where we don't have to re-invent the wheel. We can see what went either wrong or horribly wrong at SO, then avoid making the same mistakes. Some common problems: - Making too generic or ambiguous tags that could mean a lot of different things. - Allowing crap tags th... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278780 |
Why did you think that RAM was an irrelevant tag to a question discussing different memory segments in RAM (as opposed to NVM)? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278813 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are reference requests welcome here? If we ignore the part of recommendation questions leading to opinion-based answers, the main concern against these kind of questions is that they don't add anything of value to this site. But also one of the main design concerns of SO: they didn't want to end up as yet another low quality programm... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278792 |
The intention is to make things like Doxygen and Javadocs on-topic. No, you can't ask questions about that on Writing... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278790 |
This is meant to label the endless "which language is best", "which compiler should I use", "where can I find a library about..." questions. And now you mean to make them on topic? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278788 |
Way too vaguely phrased in my opinion. We could however say something about copy/paste homework dumps. I've been meaning to suggest that such dumps should always lead to user suspension since they are rude, but that's for another post. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278785 |
Also if we can't narrow the scope enough, I don't think the site will attract enough experts - they tend to shy away from "everything about software & stuff" sites were random hobbyist trade bad advise with each other. We already have some 100 sites like that on the Internet. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278785 |
This isn't about first time visitors as much as defining what the site is actually about & provide guidance to moderators. I'm thinking the site will be fairly tolerant, but in case someone decides to close bad questions, they need some community consensus to prove the point if someone starts arguing... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278752 |
Similarly, "formula" is another garbage tag which is way too generic and ambiguous. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278752 |
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| Edit | Post #278752 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Renaming sheets to the more specific google-sheets? Google Sheets isn't a company name, it's a product name. A tag called google-sheets is perfectly fine. Google doesn't market this product as "Sheets", they market it as "Google Sheets". What is not OK is using the tags "google" and "sheets" together. That's one of the issues that the company name ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278728 |
Mandatory pun: should we start over with a clean sheet? (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278648 |
@Alexei This post could be used in the long term too. I don't think we should change anything unless there's strong community consensus, whatever that means in practice (+5 score?). If something is updated, a moderator might want to leave an edit comment in the answer along the lines of: "Status-com... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278708 |
I think this is a hypothetical question since there's almost always something to say about code if enough of it is posted. If that isn't the case, well, _why_ is it fine? This or that is good practice, so point that out. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278698 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? I propose that the following is added as off-topic: Off-topic - Questions with artificial requirements and no practical use, including code golf and code obfuscation. This also covers artificial homework requirements that "ban" the use of certain common language features when writing the progra... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278658 |
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| Comment | Post #278666 |
Yeah good call, the actual core of the site is missing. I liked my definition from the previous discussion thread: "Specific programming problems, where the poster includes their own attempts to solve or debug the problem." But the proposed change in this answer works too. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278649 |
@r~~ No the intention is to not allow questions of the nature "Which language is fastest, C# or Java?". With no specifics or "best" criteria what-so-ever. "Fastest" in this case could mean a whole lot of things. But if the question goes into details about differences of lets say the underlying VM on... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278653 |
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| Edit | Post #278658 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What's the difference between null pointers and NULL? There are three different, related concepts that are easy to mix up: - null pointers - null pointer constants - the NULL macro Formal definitions The first two of these terms are formally defined in C17 6.3.2.3/3: > An integer constant expression with the value `0`, or such an expressio... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278657 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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What's the difference between null pointers and NULL? Someone told me that I shouldn't write "NULL pointer" with capital letters, because a null pointer and NULL are different terms. And that NULL is a "null pointer constant". What's the meaning of this? Does this have anything to do with some systems allowing a different representation of the null p... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277235 | Question closed | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277235 | Question reopened | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277235 | Question closed | — | over 4 years ago |
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| Comment | Post #278648 |
We may also assume that the poster of each answer is in favour of that proposal. We can't vote on our own posts, so imagine that there is an invisible +1 vote on each proposal posted :) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278653 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? I propose that the following is added: > On-topic > > - questions asking for code review that follow [the site policies for the code review category]. Where [the site policies for code reviews] is a link to a separate help page: > When posting a code review, please post it under the specif... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278651 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > On-topic > > - questions about SQL programming > > ... > > Off-topic > > - questions about database administration I propose that these two are changed to clarify that we allow questions about database design and questions regarding the use of specific DBMS (MySQL, Oracle etc): > ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278650 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > On-topic > > - questions dealing with how to write software documentation I propose that a note about tool use is added: > On-topic > > - questions dealing with how to write software documentation or how to use tools for that purpose The intention is to clarify that things like Doxygen... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278649 |
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| Edit | Post #278649 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? >On-topic > > - questions about best practices as long as enough detail is provided to answer using external references or expertise consensus I propose that this should be re-phrased: >On-topic > > - non-subjective questions about best practices with a well-defined "best" criteria, where t... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278628 |
@Alexei I made a feedback post [here](https://software.codidact.com/questions/278648). Hopefully we can centralize discussion about specific items there and update once there seems to be a strong consensus. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278648 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? There is a new page What type of questions can I ask here? (found under Help -> Guidance.) I'll quote it as whole below, for convenience. Please give feedback on specific items in the list that you agree or don't agree with and post a proposed change, so that the community can vote agree/disagree ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278628 |
For example, I disagree with "asking to explain what a certain code does" as off-topic. These should be fine most of the time, long as they are narrow enough. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |