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How can I make sure the question I'm going to post is not going to be duplicate?
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I recently posted a question on the main site, and later pointed out by another user that the question has been answered, not once, but a couple times already. Soon, I found a working ...
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Should I really ask the same question again if the old one was closed as a duplicate?
The duplicate banner tells me:
Your post has been associated with a similar question. If this question doesn’t resolve your question, ask a new one.
Should I keep reposting my question until I ...
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When the "Best Answer" is not always the "Right Answer"
I have recently joined SO, interested in Python, pandas, and NumPy, and have noticed a tendency for questioners to favour, and often explicitly request the following:
"One-line" answer
"Most efficent"...
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Need a better top hit/suggestion for Swift "unexpectedly found nil" questions in the "Questions that may already have your answer" list
The Swift error "fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value" is a common error that new iOS or Swift users encounter as they struggle to grasp the concept of Optional types ...
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What is the algorithm/metric used to determine question similarity?
When one asks a question on stackoverflow, a list of already asked questions (ranked in order of most similar to least similar?) are displayed to the user.
How is this similarity determined? Does ...
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