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Are there any tricks to "bypass" duplicated question checking when asking on Stack OverFlow? [duplicate]
I've just started learning IT and ask questions on SO a lot.
But I'm so tired of my questions being closed all the time due to duplicated reasons. They pointed me to some other question that was said ...
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Down and duplicate votes on my questions as a new user seem like bullying [duplicate]
Lot of people have posted these kind of questions, but mine deals with another perspective of the same problem, so before you cry out duplicate! just hear me out.
I'm a pretty new user on Stack ...
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Original question being marked as duplicate of a question that should be duplicate [duplicate]
So here is a question that was asked on SO on Jan 2 '11 at 16:32
Can we instantiate an abstract class?
and the other question that was asked on SO on Dec 2 '12 at 16:01
Interview : Can we ...
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Duplicate - same cause, different symptom
There are underlying causes that can result in many different symptoms. Consider, in Java, String == comparison and floating point rounding error. Often, a person who is unaware of the particular ...
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Binary Bomb Questions
I've noticed a surge in 'Binary Bomb' questions on SO. That is, the assignment gives a disassembly (typically x86), and what parameters / inputs are needed to avoid the explode_bomb function call.
I'...
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Classifying question as duplicate [duplicate]
What is StackOverflow's definition of duplicate question?
I noticed that there are many questions marked as duplicate just because its have the same answer. But the question with same answer doesn't ...
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A user copy-pasting answers without proper attribution [duplicate]
I came across this user's profile while I was going through the close-votes queue and most if not all answers seem to be copied from other Stack Overflow answers or from external sources.
This is a ...
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Begin focusing more on searching than asking
Just a thought. I have noticed that many, many more questions are getting duplicated on SO.
This may be partly due to availability of searching within SO. I know SO questions appear frequently in ...
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Different questions for same problem in different language - duplicate or not?
Recently I came across the same problem statement being asked in two different questions but with different language tags. My question is whether to consider those questions as duplicate or not?
My ...
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The post a duplicate link directs to as been removed for reasons of moderation [duplicate]
Recently, I have been trying to learn about PHP and using/storing passwords securely.
I came across this post: Exactly how do I use blowfish in PHP?
Which is marked as a duplicate of: best-way-to-...
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I find this questions similar, but could not say they are duplicates [closed]
I just looked over one of my old questions and came across this:
Python: Why operator "is" and "==" are sometimes interchangeable for strings?
Now looking more in-depth over the ...
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How to handle the How to return the response from an AJAX call questions [closed]
Every single day we are encountering 10+ question of the same type, dealing with how to handle the result of an asynchronous ajax request(a possible duplication of this question) in SO, the same ...
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Other duplicates of 'What should main() return in C and C++'? [closed]
The question What should main() return in C and C++? is, I believe, the earliest one on SO to cover the topic. It has a number of decent answers. As such, it should be considered the canonical ...
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Reasons behind deleting this question [closed]
With all due respect to @Gordon as a moderator I would like to hear specific legitimate reasons behind deletion of this ordinary enough question https://stackoverflow.com/q/18426674/1920232.
I can ...
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What further steps can I take to distinguish a question incorrectly closed as duplicate? [duplicate]
The perfect question for my problem is erroneously closed as a duplicate. The one answer doesn't work; in fact, it's an answer to the (allegedly) duplicated question. Maybe that (and the fact that the ...
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