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Do we encourage nonsense questions?
There's no way around it: this question is stupid would, if it had been posted years ago, have gotten closed as "not a real question." It shows two code snippets and asks whether the one that does ...
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Isn't it better to be as specific as possible when asking design questions?
I lurk design-patterns and see a lot of questions of the type "Is this a good design?" and then there's an abstraction of the problem using ClassA/ClassB/Foo/Bar/etc. or animal classes Dog/Cat/etc. ...
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How to educate asker when being beaten by rep hunters
I came across this question today and I knew the answer right away. It was in fact a question on a very basic SQL query (full joins) that most people should pick up in their first few lessons on SQL. ...
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Gamification rules have to be changed. Aiming quality, not quantity
The site has evolved. Evolved a great deal, and now it's essentially different
from one it was at the beginning. I hope, after promoting
this post
for a very long time, there is not a soul left who ...
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