Questions tagged [terminology]
The use or definition of a term in the context of Stack Overflow.
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Questionable label of "open source" for some models in Stack Overflow survey about AI
I noticed something interesting when visiting SO today. I see there is a survey from Stack Overflow on closed and open source AI models. I was curious to take it because I am not familiar with any ...
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Nomenclature for methods, functions, and values
JavaScript (and other languages too) has long documentation names for commonly used methods. For example, the title of the MDN article for the splice() method on arrays is Array.prototype.splice(). ...
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What is retagging exactly?
I was looking for ways to achieve badges, and I stumbled upon the Organiser badge. The description said, "First Retag". I didn't know what a retag was, so naturally, I looked it up on meta. ...
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Change "mwe" explanation from "minimal workable example" to "minimal working example"?
I was reading the Minimal Reproducible Example page and I noticed that for some reason the mwe acronym is spelled out as "minimal workable example".
However, I believe that "minimal working example" ...
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MCVExit redux: I don't need a milkshake to know when I've missed the mark
A week ago, I had an idea: change a URL with thousands of outstanding uses and try to replace an awkward initialism with... Another awkward made-up word.
...Ok, that was... not a great idea. ...
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Min-Reprex: a less awkward name for MCVE
Update: ok, ok, this was a wee bit premature - here's the follow-up proposal:
MCVExit redux: I don't need a milkshake to know when I've missed the mark
Five years ago, we set out to write up ...
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What is a popular tag?
I can see in the description of popular tags a little "flame". I presume this is for tags with lots of watchers and/or lots of questions.
Question: what are the criteria that a tag must satisfy in ...
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How should we call the assumed original of a question marked as duplicate?
Some expert has marked a question as duplicate of another question. In my eyes that is totally correct. I made a comment to the asker that I think he should go to the 'original' question.
What I want ...
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What is "meaningful activity"?
In the "[Email + Privacy] The power to choose" email sent out by SO recently, one of the statements is:
As part of our new data-retention policy, we will now delete accounts that have been inactive ...
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What does MCVE mean?
I did a search for related questions and found this question.
However that's not the same thing and doesn't answer what MCVE actually stands for.
What does it mean in the context of these questions?
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Is the "What is AM/PM called?" question on-topic?
What is AM/PM called? has been a popular question for 8 years (+164-4 votes, 8 stars), and in fact is the #1 Google hit for "What is AM/PM called?", and is also linked from the top-5 hit "What is the ...
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R language-specific tags: r-timedate, r-factor, r-model-formula etc.?
Correct me if my understanding is wrong, but I thought in general we're not supposed to incorporate the language name into tag names, except in cases where disambiguation is needed. And even then, if ...
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Should we rename tag 'greatest-n-per-group' to 'top-n-per-group', to be consistent with 'top-n'?
We have top-n but greatest-n-per-group.
top-n is the more standard term, for Python/pandas/R.
greatest-n-per-group is used for SQL questions, since GREATEST is an actual keyword; Python and R people ...
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About the 2016 Stack Overflow developer survey results
As I was reading them, I saw the developer-profile-programmers-engineers-and-developers and a big question arose to myself: When I take the survey myself next year, what I will declare to be? A ...
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Please rename "wiki"
The term wiki has a reasonably well-understood definition. To help newcomers to Stack Overflow find their way around the site, we should avoid using this term inappropriately.
Hence, I propose ...
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