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124 questions linked to/from What is the XY problem?
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What is the opposite of the XY problem?
There is the XY problem, where a solution for X is wanted, but a question about Y is asked.
I think there's also the problem of the assumed XY problem, where a question about Y is asked, but X is ...
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Is it OK to suggest the OP change his approach in order to offer a new answer to the question ?
I just went through a question on Stack Overflow, in which the OP just said that
he wants to get the click event of textboxes that are in a div. As everybody knows, in jQuery you can traverse ...
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How can a student ask better questions on Stack Exchange sites? [duplicate]
I usually ask learning-related questions on Stack Exchange sites and unintentionally get myself voted down with bad questions.
When checking my questions like a year or so later, I see that the ...
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When potential answers are already rejected within a question (with no reasoning provided)- should we downvote it?
Some questions contain curious hoops or preemptively reject valid answers/solutions and don't explain the reasoning behind the rejection. Should these be downvoted?
Examples are:
I don't want to use [...
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Why do members strive to find mistakes in questions rather than actually striving on answering questions?
I have been on Stack Overflow and other similar sites in the Stack Exchange network for some time and one of the very irritating things I have noticed is that most members actually strive to flag the ...
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The "you shouldn't want to do that" response
This question is mostly about the broader Stack Exchange network, rather than Stack Overflow.
I have a recurring issue when I asking questions on Stack Exchange, across the whole network: very often, ...
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Your answer is in another castle Part 2: can we stop the confusion about NAA flags and posts that tackle a different question from the one posted?
DISCLAIMER: This is not yet another post trying to discuss what NAA posts are and / or answers to different questions are NAA. What this post is trying to do is to find a way to stop people for having ...
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Can Community Managers contact deleted users?
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This question over on Ask Ubuntu got downvoted into oblivion (-6 is oblivion for AU) and subsequently deleted. I posted an AU meta question to prevent other users from deleting ...
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How to handle answers which begin with "What are you trying to achieve"?
I don't know, maybe I'm somehow strange, but I must admit that answers which begin with
What are you trying to achieve?
What are your reasons for asking this?
Why you are asking this?
(anything ...
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Should there be a place to ask about programming libraries and technologies? [duplicate]
Bjarne Stroustrup once mentioned in one of his bigthink interviews that one of the greatest problems most programmers have is not finding or using the right libraries.
On stackoverflow and ...
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How to ask a good question if you don't know the subject very well
How can one ask a good question in a subject he/she doesn't know much about?
For example, I'm a developer. Even though I may not know Java, I know how to ask a good question about Java because it's ...
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Life hacking site?
A question on SO made me think of a question I have for Meta.
The question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21654069/memorizing-of-code
This is more of a life hack question. How do you ...
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Is there some built-in feature to repel trolls?
The (long) story
The question is below, you don't have to read "the story" to get the question.
The more popular SE sites are the more trolls they attract. I cannot (and others too) ask ...
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FAQ for Stack Exchange sites
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For sites in the Stack Exchange 2.0 network
To see a list of commonly used words and phrases, see the glossary.
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Does the new guidance on duplicate questions suggest closing a question as duplicate, if the original answers the OP's question?
In other words, should we now look at the content of the answers when we are evaluating questions for possible duplication? Is it sufficient to say "Your answer can be found in this question over ...
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