I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about boolean algebra, boolean logic, and Mathematics instead of programming or software development. — Pang37 secs ago
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about linear programming and Mathematics instead of software programming or software development. — Pang51 secs ago
because you haven't said anything to give this "api first" requirement meaning
http based api... do you mean rest or what?
there is an idea in design of focusing on your API first but that isn't a feature of the product created. it's a technique to help you produce a well designed product.
one of the features that sharepoint gives out-of-the-box is designing web forms...it has some fancy ui to do this...when I say "api first"...no fancy ui...just an http api to do this...
Our data platform, Providence, has evolved over the last two years. We look at how and why it has changed, and the effects on our counts of developers.
So one month back, I hypothesized that in the wake of the name change, we would see a 20% reduction in questions closed as debugging.
The numbers are in. Debugging questions have been reduced from 14.26% (517/1241) down to 9.04% (86/951). That means the prediction has held, yay :)
However, total question volume has also sunk by 23%. Are these changes caused by the name change? Or are there simply less off-topic questions due to seasonal reasons? I don't know.
But for this one arbitrarily picked metric, the name change seems to have been a success, or at least not have a negative influence.
oops, that should have been 177/1241 debugging questions one month ago.
Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow — Takarii56 secs ago
@amon interesting; I wonder if the situation could be improved by providing some examples of questions that are considered unambiguously on topic in the help center?
I've been occasionally looking at some of the comments on questions that get closed, I haven't got enough rep to look back but IIRC there were a few that seemed to me like they had the general idea of what SE.SE was supposed to be but might've been missing a couple specific things.
Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. — Rad Lexus31 secs ago
@jrh I don't have the feeling many 1st-time posters look at the help center before they post their question. However, the higher-visibility tour currently uses “Is fixing bugs made by other people a good approach?” as an example question, which might set a slightly too opinion-based theme for the site.
@amon I see. This should probably work too - as far as I can tell 10k stats include deleted questions - amount of closed questions reported for today and for 2 days is easy to count and it is noticeably more than are visible in search by closed:yes
@jrh If you see a question and wonder why that question is or isn't off-topic, just ask here in chat. That would help me too, since I'd like to understand what parts of the scope are unclear.
The teacher's dilemma: once I understand something, I can no longer comprehend not understanding it.
@RobertHarvey A student can articulate their (possibly incomplete) understanding. A careful teacher can then prune mistakes and affirm the correct parts, and fill in what is missing.
There's no good response to “I don't understand X” if X was already explained – repeating an explanation in different words is frustrating for all involved.
Instead, “I think X = Y because A, B, C. But we have X = Z. Why?” does allow efficient communication. Maybe Y = Z, or B is wrong, or D is missing. See also: X-Y-Problem, Socratic Method.
Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. — Amy27 secs ago
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It's more secure because recreating the hashes in a brute force manner becomes more computationally expensive. Check out some of the answers to this question — castis51 secs ago
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As far as I understood CQRS, events are delivered to sagas (aka process mangers) and then saga sends command to handler that is re-hydrating aggregate root using repository and calls some method on that aggregate root.
Since events and commands are just DTOs, is it OK to use automatic mapper in ...
Ok, then, one's the Python deep-dive meetup - track record of (pretty good) pizza and beer (and wine) but the organizer has been threatening to do burritos. The other one is Python office hours - always cheap pizza and moderate beer.
I intend to hit the first, and then the second if there's enough time left of it to justify the stop.
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@gnat thanks, mod powers are supposed to propagate to stackexchange according to shog, so... I'll get right on it when I'm comfortable that I'm not going to push the wrong buttons.
@amon sounds good, I need to spend some time looking through some of the questions I bookmarked (if they're still here)
for what it's worth it's not just SE.SE, SO's scope seems a little odd to me in some ways as well, though in SO's case it's partially blog posts that seem to go in circles IIRC (I'm not sure if it's old content that never got updated, though)
though I guess to start out with... what might be a rather controversial one (note: I like this question and I upvoted it, I don't recommend closing this)
I have read a book called Clean Code by Robert C. Martin. In this book I've seen many methods to clean up code like writing small functions, choosing names carefully, etc. It seems by far the most interesting book about clean code I've read. However, today my boss didn't like the way I wrote code...
How is this not a rant in disguise and primarily opinion based?
- He didn't post the function in question, do we have enough information to be sure if this is really a good practice or not in this case?
Or is the coding style in question (Bob Martin's) so well established that it's not considered primarily opinion based?
I like the question and I try to write small functions/methods; I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the OP here or saying it's a bad question, I just don't understand how this fits into the scope of SE.SE
Double off topic: a) not programming related. b) asking for recommendations for software. And for bonus points "industry standard" quite often has a healthy dose of "primarily opinion based"... — John313642 secs ago
@RobertHarvey Not sure if you're familiar with John Carmack but here's another article you might like, I found it in one of the comments on the question I mentioned earlier number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html
I try to read most blogs on programming style that I can find, but articles that mention specific cases where the programming style did or didn't help the author are especially interesting for me.