Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Computer Science is scheduled for an election next week, January 21st. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the ...
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Are questions about algorithm recommendation accepted here?
I previously asked this
Where can I ask for algorithm recommendations?
And was asked to migrate my question to softrec. here
https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/54652/what-is-the-best-...
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(To what extent) is modeling the physical world on-topic?
Is the design of algorithms to model the physical environment on-topic? To what extent?
In particular, is What algorithm is appropriate for a thermostat controlling the heating of a room with floor ...
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2018: 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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Questions about how to study or how to teach
Are questions about how to study computer science on-topic? Are questions about how to teach computer science on-topic?
For example, “How can I calculate this property of a graph?”, “How can I prove ...
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Should [numeral-representations] and [number-formats] be merged?
Both tags numeral-representations and number-formats are missing a usage guidance, and I cannot see a difference between the questions tagged either way. Both seem to encompass not only binary, octet, ...
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Should we merge “graphs” with “graph-theory”?
The tags graphs and graph-theory seem to cover much of the same ground.
Should we merge them?
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Questions from unregistered users
How should we respond to questions from unregistered users? Should we treat them differently from questions from registered users?
For example: Should we post comments encouraging users to register? ...
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Renaming `graphical-models` tag to `graphical-model`
I found three sites with the same tag graphical-model(s). They are Data Science, Cross Validated and this site.
The other two sites contain ...
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Burninate/synonymize tag: definition
There were six questions tagged "definition". In most cases, it was either being used as a synonym of "terminology" or its only semantic content was "I'm asking about the definition of something or ...
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rethinking programming language tags
This question asks whether programming language tags such as [java], [c++], or [python] are on topic at CS stack exchange. The answer says that questions about the programming languages themselves may ...
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Testing of an algorithm on topic?
I am new to this site but not new to SE. I am examining an algorithm that has been published and the software that comes along with the algorithm. Are questions related to testing of the algorithm ...
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Computer Science's updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Is it now a good time to merge with CSTheory.SE
For several recent years, the contents of questions on CSTheory.SE are strict subsets of those here on CS.SE
Especially, theoretical questions here and there are often linked to each other. Also, ...
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Help vote on answers to good questions
Sometimes a question gets asked, someone takes the time to respond, but the answer never receives any votes. Sometimes those answers can be quite good, and it would be nice to reward those answers ...
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Can program-verification be made a synonym of software-verification?
This was already suggested in this 2012 question, with the top answer being to make software-verification the main tag.
Maybe someone with 2500 rep can propose the synonym/merge? Or, answers arguing ...
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Full Forms (somehow related to Computers)
Can I ask stuff like full forms of somethings in the computer science stack exchange, for example, the full form of Wi-Fi or internet?
I won't really only ask this but some more also.
So my question ...
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Migrate old question on CS education?
In 2012, a question asked why is it that some professors teach C-style character arrays instead of C++ strings even in C++ classes.
Now that Computer Science Educators is online, is it time to ...
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When should the “lists” tag be used?
So far there is no usage guidance for the tag lists. According Wikipedia, list may refer to an abstract data type, or a concrete data structure linked-list.
So when should we use the tag lists?
I ...
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fixed bug in answer code; edit rejected with strange reason
I submitted an edit correcting a code bug in an answer to a popular and old question. A reviewer recommended to reject with reason:
This edit was intended to address the author of the post and ...
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Asking for the best ways to solve a computational problem
I am interested in learning about what methods are currently considered to be the "best" for approximately solving large instances of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) in practice. However, as I ...
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Burninate tag: pseudocode
We have four questions tagged "pseudocode". This question seems to have no value:
any question that requests an algorithm would be off-topic if it required a specific language, so tagging a "Please ...
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When is it appropriate to re-tag old questions?
I am aware of the costs of editing old questions/answers as described in the question Trivial edits to old answers.
However, I'm not sure in what cases the specific edit of re-tagging an old question ...
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Is this question related to computer science?
Efficient directory tree-like data structure for virtual file system?
I've already ben able to compress and encrypt each individual file
using LZ4 and AES but I need to store the tree ...
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What to do when someone 'manually migrates' a question to another site and drops an answer?
Recently, a question asked here which I answered has been deleted by the owner and reasked on a (then) private beta site, quantum computing.
I don't think that such a 'manual migration' is a good ...
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Quantum Computing Beta is up and running!
Hello Computer Science users! I'm here to announce that the Quantum Computing site is open to join. Your expertise would be very welcome as we continue building our new site.
We accept those who are ...
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Tag mapreduce is ambiguous
The tag [mapreduce] doesn't have a user guidance. Currently it has questions that cover both the technique of "Map-Reduce" from concurrent algorithms and "map reduction" from theory of computability.
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Integration of an interactive graph editor
Asking here (also cross-asking at cstheory.meta.SE) because I couldn't find contact information for anyone at StackExchange who looked like they could help with this.
UX.SE has Balsamiq mockups built-...
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Sudden loss of reputation
Admittedly, we're only talking about 55 rep, but I find this worrying.
Yesterday my reputation was at 9206, and it seems like during the night I lost 55 points (currently my old reputation is still ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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There are two questions that are both attempt to prove that P=NP, but one got 2 upvotes and the other got -4 downvotes. Why?
This question is an attempt to prove P=NP.
This question is also an attempt to prove P=NP.
The first question got 2 upvotes, it is not closed, even not on hold and not considered off-topic. It also ...
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How do we want to tag questions about parameterized algorithms?
@user777 suggested the introduction of a tag for parameterized algorithms in a question:
We should have tag about "Parameterized Algorithm" that covers the technique of this subject like: bounded ...
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When is the proof-techniques tag appropriate?
I'm not sure which questions fall under the tag proof-techniques. In particular, are questions which essentially ask for a specific proof of a statement appropriate? The current tag description:
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Is MathJax in title allowed?
I want to know if I am allowed to use dollars, i.e. $, in title to render in there MathJax.
According to my research, I saw on other sites that askers already used MathJax in their title, but not in ...
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Hardware and Software Questions
Why are Hardware and Software (which is programming) questions off limits when both are fundamental aspects of Computer Science. Since they are off limits, is there a stack exchange community dealing ...
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Should we merge the tags “hash” and “hashing”?
There are two tags which seem very similar:
hash
hashing
Another similar tag is hash-tables, though it is more specific.
Should we merge hash and hashing?
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To Ask about how to write a best dissertation of master's is on-topic or off topic?
Topic about how to write a graduation work or master's dissertation is within the escope? is on-topic or of-topic?
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What happens to questions to which the answers are outdated?
What ought to happen to the questions that have outdated answers or to which the answers give outdated links? Is it okay to ask the question again?
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How to ask questions when you cannot be as clear as the responders would like?
I asked a question about distance metrics for DAGs: Distance measure for directed acyclic graphs
I expected an answer which would outline what possible measures there are, so that I could choose ...
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Which SE site is best for asking about self-learning/online CS education?
I’m a programmer with little formal CS education, which has held me back career-wise, and where I think a lot of the fun is at.
I’m taking a sabbatical from work so I can teach myself CS ...
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Interview questions
We seem to have had a few interview questions posted recently: 1, 2 (I thought there were more when I started writing this, but maybe not). I don't think they're a good fit for the site, because ...
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Are general questions about a research field off topic?
Is a question like the following
What are the major challenges in [research field]?
off topic?
For research field I don't mean a really general field like languages or theorical computer science, ...
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Warn when some tags are used
Some tags seem to attract a significant amount of off-topic questions.
Specifically, we have tags for specific programming languages like
c, c++, java, python, prolog which seem to be used frequently ...
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Is cs.stackexchange.com fair to new users?
I am a new user (from last five months ), I have seen some users ( I don't want to take their names ) have asked a very very basic question or just definition around 4 or 5 year back, due to these ...
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Where should I ask about Computer Science Applications?
I'm looking for existing applications of Graph Summmarization on social networks. Is it on-topic?
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Tags can now be longer — do we want to change any?
As of today, tags can be 35 characters long; the limit used to be 25.
Are there any tags that were stunted to fit into the length limit and could profit from the new limit?
Keep in mind that longer ...
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Can a user show too much effort to solve his question?
Some days ago a new user posed a problem and sketched a sweeping line algorithm combined with a tree data structure to solve it. Here the problem, as far as I remember:
There is a set of ...
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Is this question about data storage on-topic here?
There has been some discussion about the following question:
is data received after transmission immediately stored?and can that be recovered
Is it on-topic? It appears there are some mixed points ...
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Is it okay to ask for edits?
imho the idea behind this sloppy question is a gem: Computational Complexity of Not All Equal SAT variant
Is it allowed to ask in the comments if somebody can edit the question?
Should there be a way ...
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CS angle AMA “ask me anything” jun13 Bernardo Meurer
earlier this year Michael Wehar proposed a CS AMA "ask me anything" session that had strong support but which has not gone further/ advanced so far beyond conceptual stage. this is to announce not ...
