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How can I make this program a bit more efficient?
So I'm trying to solve a SPOJ problem, which code is SAMER08A and this is the link: http://www.spoj.com/problems/SAMER08A/
The problem, is that when I ran my code in my IDE, the code works perfect ...
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Autoloader class
Depending on your directory structure you may have name spaced class files in different directories (that isn't really part of the structure, i.e. lib/ or core/).
Symfony ClassLoader is awesome, but ...
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Quick Insert Merge Sort
I have written a code for sorting a list of numbers in increasing order. It is a combination of quick sort, insertion sort and merge sort. I take the first element of the list as Pivot. Then I go ...
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A c++ PEG parser generator
Last Weekend I wrote a c++ PEG packrat parser generator and would love to get some feedback on the code and/or syntax. I currently use the << operator for defining grammar expressions and ...
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How to improve Collision Detection in Bricks in BreakOut Game
I've done my first BreakOut Game while completing an assignment for Stanford University CS Online Course for java.
However I noticed during play testing that when the ball sometimes hits a brick ...
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Bash script to manage multiple Java Development Kits installations
I'm writing a bash script to manage multiple JDKs, the script is very simple, you have to choose a directory when you store all the jdk's, and the script maintain a symlink to the current jdk'. ...
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How can I improve my code which dynamically populates a section of a page?
My site consists of a lot of asynchronous calls, and because of this a lot of content is dynamically added to the page. For this section of code I've dynamically added tabs to a page and need to ...
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Is this PHP Email Form Secure from injections or other abuses?
I am new to PHP and put this contact page together using the w3Schools.com example as a guide along with a couple other sources. As far as I can tell, it works fine, but before I put it up on my page ...
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String Matching
I recently came across a lecture on DFA. I tried to use it to determine whether a given 'search string' is found in the 'input string'. Please tell me if there is a better way
(display "Enter input ...
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framework design review (SOLID)
I'm developing a php framework for educational purposes, I have learned a big deal about design patterns and MVC.
I've been thinking a lot on how to have a nice design and so far I've come up with ...
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Python: How do I optimize the solving of ODEs?
I have been trying to figure out a way to optimize the solving of ODEs in Python but haven't been able to achieve this goal. I tried getting help via a bounty on SO using cython but nothing came of ...
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New library for declaring units on numerical model attributes
A couple of days ago as I was working on a project I stumbled something I consider a problem and that, as far I know, doesn't have any good solution available in Rails.
The problem is attribute ...
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Creating an expanding CCSprite cluster
I am creating an "explosion" of circle sprites from the character with this code, and I was wondering if there is a more effective way to do such things, because this just seems too stupid.
(This is ...
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Is this code thread safe?
I do a code review for ASP.NET MVC RESTful service application code. Controller looks something like
public class BarController : ApiController
{
[HttpPost]
public void DoBar(byte[] rawData)
...
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Can this code be minified even more?
I have an insane idea of minimizing this code. It searches though table for a entered string, and if found, adds number from another column and returns total number for coincidences.
row #5 has ...
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A Better Way of Employing a Using Alias Directive
I understand .NET very well until Principals of OOP come into view, so I guess we can say very little. So to work on this, I am making a Console App that will Catalog my Digital Media to a MySQL ...
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Boiler.js - A new JavaScript utility library. Room for improvement?
Boiler.js @ GitHub
Boiler.js Homepage
I wrote Boiler.js from the ground up for a few reasons:
Underscore.js and other similar libraries do not have enough methods for working with object-literals ...
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How bad is it Doc? (Vanilla Javascript)
2 months ago, I wrote a chrome extension called hotfix. I recently went back to look over the code and it made me cringe a bit. I refactored it a little, but before I get knee deep in it, I would like ...
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Dynamic Controller Creation in Rails
I have overrode Rails' ActionDispatch::Routing::RouteSet::Dispatcher.controller_reference method to check if a controller exists by checking for the required constants and then creating them based ...
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Should I use anonymous functions in my javascript program?
This question is about the best way to declare functions in Javascript. the app is a small 2 player board game I'm working on as part of a bigger web page. Basically I have a socket which receives and ...
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C++: Generating similar methods with macros
I am currently working on a project that involves Lua. For convenience, I created a wrapper class for the Lua state structure. However, I also added some methods for getting globals and table fields. ...
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Razor Jquery Error [closed]
<script>
@if (ViewBag.checkedArtikel != null)
{
foreach (int ac in ViewBag.checkedArtikel)
{
String temp = "'#addartikel" + ac + "'";
<text> ...
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JavaScript regular expression literal as string literal
Please refer to this question for more discussion.
JavaScript string literal sometimes to many escaping slashes. The following address this problem by converting a regular expression literal into a ...
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Matlab Combinatorics [closed]
Im new in matlab, i hope someone can help me with my problem. I need to make a code to solve this Cobinatoric example. which says that i have vector A which has 10 values 2 of them are 1 and the rest ...
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JQuery code repetition and MVC
A while ago I started working on a project, which does things mostly with JQuery and PHP. I had some problems with my structure and started using CodeIgniter which uses an MVC pattern. So the PHP part ...
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Saving a contact and dealing with exceptions
try{save.Username = usernamedetails.Rows[0].ItemArray[0].ToString(); }
catch{ save.Username = ""; }
try { save.Firstname = dtdetails.Rows[0].ItemArray[1].ToString(); }
catch { save.Firstname = ""; }
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Drawing game objects using their Z-order property
I am creating a game, with Ruby scripting.
Sprite and Label objects can be drawn on the screen. Depending on the order you draw them, one will overlap the other.
To make things easier, I want to ...
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Prime Numbers Store
Problem definition:
Lets say we need to create a store for selling prime numbers.
Users enter the store and ask to buy a number.
If the number asked is a prime number,
1.1. then it's either ...
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1answer
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cleaner way to import “izip” for different versions of python
A common idiom that I use for python2-python3 compatibility is:
try:
from itertools import izip
except ImportError: #python3.x
izip = zip
however, a comment on one of my stackoverflow ...
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How to implement MVC on the application scale?
I'm developing a simple conferencing app with a Swing standalone client which connects to enterprise java beans. Users can create "sessions" (conferences) on the server, and then can join those ...
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Minimizing CSS media queries for the page title?
I am working on page titles to be responsive. The code I have works and gets the job done, but I know that this is verbose. I decided upon the widths by trial and error based on how the words were ...
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Potential Problems with this templating technique
I like the way Zend Framework works it's views and I make extensive use of partials but every partial include results in it's own file system hit. As I'm building my own framework I thought I could do ...
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Proper way to cancel WebClient in BackgroundWorker
I have a WPF application that needs to get a XML document using a web request. The request is based on an id that the user enters. If the user enters a second id, before the first returns, I would ...
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Singleton interface in Java
I've created a singleton by means of an interface. I don't want to make a thing with getInstance() etc because I don't care about inheritance, and it's redundant and non-declarative.
Are there ...
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Dynamic homepage with PHP - making things too complicated?
I am trying to show the 6 most popular products on my homepage from left to right, in two rows. My code actually works... but I have the feeling I am making things way too complicated. Is there a ...
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Is there a better way to read json in node
I have this view that populates an unordered list from values in a json file. I am doing this in node. So is there a better way to do this, or a mode 'node-like' way? Can I load the json file without ...
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Better Design Pattern For Terminal-Like GUI
I am working on a java swing project that looks like a Terminal (but with less functionality).
The GUI contains a jTextArea to display output and a jTextField for user input.
Here is an application ...
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Name of this algorithm (Create binary image) [migrated]
Some days ago I saw in this site the algorithm below to convert color images to binary images and I used it in my application (with some small changes). However, I need to know what is the name of the ...
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Checklist for coding MVVM web application [closed]
We are a small team working on a web application using MVVM design pattern using technologies like .NET, Knockout and HTML. I am trying to come up with a code review process and as a first step trying ...
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Would appreciate feedback on college project
would appreciate some feedback regarding best practices on the following code which is a college project. What should go in the controller and what in the views? How to attach and remove the views to ...
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Ruby Branch and Bound Algorithm implementation?
I am relatively new to Ruby and am trying to get a handle on making my code more Ruby-esque. At the same time I am experimenting with the branch and bound algorithm to solve a problem that I outline ...
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my first jquery/json
This is my first use of jquery and json so would be grateful for any feedback please.
Background - this is on a job listing site and it has a Linkedin apply button plugin - this provides for a ...
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Review my first attempt at a jQuery plugin
So this is my first attempt at creating a jQuery plugin.
InstaSlider is a lightweight jQuery image slider / carousel plugin that populates content from an Instagram hashtag.
After searching for a ...
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XmlNodeList to ListItemCollection, a matter of elegance
at this moment I'm reading an XmlNodeList into a ListItemCollection one node at a time using a foreach.
foreach (XmlNode node in authCompXml.SelectNodes("//Code"))
{
CompaniesList.Items.Add(new ...
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Basic java database source code review
I just wrote my first java database program for the purpose of getting feedback on the implementation and coding. It has 1 table and 2 buttons and prompts the user to select a folder, lists the ...
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Is there a shorter/cleaner way of writing this set of jquery .onclick functions?
I am hiding and fading in different content on the same page using jquery to hide() and fadeIn() the content depending on which link is clicked.
It works how I want it to, but the way I've written ...
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Time limit of a c program while calculating factorial of numbers in c
I am solving a problem on calculation of factorial and the challenge is as follows!
You are asked to calculate factorials of some small positive integers.
Input
An integer t, 1<=t<=100, ...
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Default value or conditional?
Which of the following two is preferred:
var somevar = valueA;
if(condition) {
somevar = valueB;
}
or:
var somevar;
if(condition) {
somevar = valueB;
} else {
somevar = valueA;
}
?
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Defining models in GAE
I'm learning to work in GAE. I'm so used to SQL, but transform my way of think the last 20 years to NoSQL is a little hard for me.
I have the next simple structure:
BOOKS than can have CHAPTERS
...
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Simple “nullable” template class. Are there weaknesses in the implementation?
The goal is to have fields in a class which are optional and can be determined if they are set in order to be able to leave them out of serialization.
template<typename T>
class Nullable
{
...
