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Post edited: More clarity |
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| Edit | Post #291479 |
Post edited: I believe the clarity of my point is improved by the edits & it provides more constructive & actionable suggestions |
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| Edit | Post #291455 |
Post edited: Just adding a couple more tags (psql looks and sounds a lot like plsql ... better to add more tags to further differentiate) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #291455 |
Suggested edit: Just adding a couple more tags (psql looks and sounds a lot like plsql ... better to add more tags to further differentiate) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291489 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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In javascript is there really a good reason to never check for boolean true || false such as if(var){}else{}? I am fairly certain this isn't a duplicate so please bear with me. I check for boolean true||false using if() as a matter of course in my programming. I've programmed extensively in PHP, some in C# ASP.NET, a bit in Java, a long time ago in C++, & dabled in a few others. Checking for boolean true|... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291479 |
Thanks @#8046 !
I believe that would be a much more useful approach than the more hostile attitude adopted on SE (SO is particularly poor of attitude).
Also, if you have the time and inclination, I recommend reading my response to @#8176 in the "no bad questions" thread.
I would strongly enc... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291479 |
I believe my point is more about statistics and while I wholeheartedly agree that there ARE bad questions, I wholeheartedly disagree that bad questions lead to bad answers.
And to some degree so did Jeff Atwood https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/11/16/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-an... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291479 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: How can we grow this community? My recommendation: Follow the good parts of StackExchange, & learn from the rest. This is long, I apologize, but I hope someone finds my treatise valuable.[^diehards] Items done right (to be duplicated) There are, a number of things they did, and to some degree, still do very well. A few of t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290007 |
Definitely also agree.
There is a really interesting blog post from... 12-15 years ago related to the Stackexchange sites from Jeff Atwood (one of the founders).
Where he explicitly said stop worrying about duplicates.
Statistically speaking, the number of QUESTIONS, regardless of quality, increas... (more) |
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