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20Hear hear! This seems to be a real algorithm question with a bunch of trappings to make it interesting, but if anything it should belong on Software Engineering.– CalebCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 9:25
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12@Caleb - it should have been migrated to Programmers just after it was asked. As it stands now - with so many upvotes and lots of answers - it's not really a suitable migration candidate.– ChrisF ModCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 9:26
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20@ChrisF If SE would reset votes on migrated questions already this wouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't care if they kept their rep on the originating site and started fresh on the target and got two mortorboards out of it. The point is the question is on the wrong site. If we cant' migrate, close, lock, make the OP copy paste and link all the folks to the new target. Silly, but why let it become the next impossible to get rid of bike shed question that isn't even on topic?– CalebCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 9:32
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17[Now contemplating a basic algorithm question packaged as something about kittens...]– Old CheckmarkCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 9:34
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11How about "This question appears to be off-topic because it is too popular to be of legitimate value to anyone in particular."?– BoltClock's a UnicornCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 9:38
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17It's not really a good Programmers question, IMO. It's a "gimme the algoz" question. It reads like he just wants someone to write the algorithm - is that appropriate anywhere? If anything, perhaps Code Golf and Programming Puzzles?– Thomas OwensCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 9:42
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5Honey, @CodyGray shrunk the croissants!– Old CheckmarkCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 9:52
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12You all got it wrong. Croissant is a snack. It should be Snack Overflow!– Old CheckmarkCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 10:04
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6@CodyGray: Shouldn't that really be: whyArePeopleSoSurprisedThatProgrammersLikeCamelCase– JonWCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 11:35
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45Why focus so much energy on this question when there's literally millions of questions that are so much crappier than this that make the site look like (multiple selections allowed): 1) a debugging service, 2) a write your code service 3) like a dumping ground of total crap that the laziest of programmers go in the hopes that rep-hungry users will do their work for them?– casperOneCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 11:38
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5@casperOne: Because Stack Overflow is a debugging service.– BoltClock's a UnicornCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 11:40
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5@GeorgeStocker - the votes and answers things still apply regardless of the age of the question. The communities on SO and Programmers are different and what one site thinks is good isn't necessarily what the other one thinks and having a highly voted questions and answers that don't "fit" with the target site distorts the "tone" (for the want of a better word) of the site.– ChrisF ModCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 12:29
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19@casperOne because People Are Having Fun. This Must Be Stopped At All Costs.– user56reinstatemonica8Commented Jul 24, 2013 at 16:08
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8"Hotness score" of this question is about 2/3 fake, as usual - 11 of 16 answers score less than 1/10 of top-voted one, but each of these meh answers brings solid 10 points to question score thanks to bug in the formula. Unnaturally high position at collider damages a reasonably okay question, as usual. - What should we do about this question? - Fix the freakin' bug in hotness formula that causes drama like that– gnatCommented Jul 24, 2013 at 22:21
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5@gnat "This question has not received enough attention"—really? It's received at least as much attention as the original question, if not more. What other answers or types of discussion are you hoping to attract with this bounty? Don't the answers we have just about cover all the bases?– Cody Gray - on strikeCommented Jul 30, 2013 at 6:08
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