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Definitional Returns. Solved. Mostly
I have made the bold claim that a longstanding problem in Rebol is "now solved"...that of "definitional returns".
But of course, such claims need some peer review, and there's always some new trick ...
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Pacman implemented in OOP VBA
What?, Why?
I have been inspired by several other posts on the topic of OOP implementations in VBA to try and create a Pacman clone. I think this task is not all that hard in most languages; but, I ...
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Repository pattern in Rust
I'm looking to add a thin layer of abstraction for database interaction in my application. I'm not really looking for a full blown ORM or advanced query builder.
I am familiar with Diesel, but its ...
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Rubik's cube mode for emacs
Following is a dumb implementation of Rubik's cube for Emacs. I am not well versed in writing (e)lisp, so I ask for a review and corrections.
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Multiplying big numbers using Karatsuba's method
The Karatsuba algorithm, first published in 1962, aims to speed up the multiplication of big numbers by reducing the number of 'single-digit-multiplications' involved.
Because of its complexity (...
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Mucheck - a mutation analysis tool for Haskell programs
We have been working on a mutation analysis tool for Haskell tests called MuCheck. It accepts any Haskell source file, and a function name to mutate, applies a defined set of mutation operators on it, ...
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How to stream data directly from the database through a 3 tier architecture
The problem: generating a CSV file that is too large be stored in memory in a 3 tier architecture, without the complexity of saving the file to storage.
The solution: I've managed to write something ...
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Timeoutable computations module
Defines a simple module for timeoutable computations, with the ability to return
arbitrary intermediary results on timeout or the final value otherwise. It also
allows default return values.
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Progress Bar for Excel
Any future updates can be found at Excel-VBA-ProgressBar
What I've been using so far
For the last 6 years I've been using a progress form which I wrote in VBA using just Windows API calls. The code (...
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Modularizing a Game Scene in Sprite Kit
I am trying to modularize the main SKScene of my strategy game. I am not sure that my approach is correct so I would love to get a review of the following code.
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Shepard Tone stream generation in Clojure
This is my work to generate an infinite Shepard Tone. It is written in Clojure and works by generating repeating streams of incrementing frequencies, converting those to values on a sine wave and then ...
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PowerShell module for formatting objects using Razor
I managed to get something up and running, but I've no idea whether there are better ways to do this. I've spent all morning trying to figure out the best way to use parameters (allowing objects from ...
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Autotools detect C++ language standard support
I have been updating my build tools to optionally use autotools (autoconfig/automake/libtool etc.).
As part of this change I have written a couple of M4 macros. This not being something I have done ...
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Realtime concurrent Haskell MIDI buffer
Problem Background
MIDI is a serial representation of control signals to a sound generator. Typically, a noteOn message initiates the attack phase of a sound at a given pitch. The note will ...
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Encoding the problem domain of products and prices into the typesystem in F#
I'm trying to design a model for purchasing amounts of products in F#, following the ideas for designing for correctness (source). The idea is to use the type system to capture the different legal ...
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Download files in parallel
This module has a ensure_downloaded function which takes a slice of Urls. It downloads all of the urls to a local downloads ...
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BattleShip - Ships & Players
I'm making a full-blown OOP Battleship game in VBA (previous post: Battleship Grid), and I want this code to be as good as it gets - and better, if I can.
I've refactored a few things, introduced a <...
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Let's register that Django user
Short intro
So, I've been using Django for a while now and thought it would be nice to start a simple application. In an ideal World, each app must have a way of letting its users register and that's ...
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Django on virtual machine - watching changes in static files and autocompiling LESS without inotify
I'm setting up a Django development environment using Vagrant to run an Ubuntu virtual machine on VirtualBox. As this is a student project run mostly by very amateur coders and I want everyone to be ...
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Code to fill PE import address table
I wrote a program to test AV engines against encryption. When it runs, it will compute some key, decrypt an executable it has in its data section and copy it to the locations where the executable ...
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Socket application using TPL
This is an application I wrote that allows multiple TCP clients to share a single TCP connection to a remote server (hosted project, and a demo). Traffic generated by the server is forwarded to all ...
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Multithreaded Groovy Mandelbrot
Seeing as it's October, I thought I'd do the community challenge. Due to my inexperience coding in Groovy, I decided to give Groovy a go. I'm not sure how well I followed Groovy conventions, and the ...
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Idiomatic way to implement `tail -f` in clojure
Disclaimer: This is just an educational task to learn how to program in Clojure and switch brain to immutable state-way of developing (the provided snipped has some unused variables which I didn't ...
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Host-Agnostic Model-View-ViewModel Infrastructure
I've written an API that unlocks some serious MVVM capabilities with VBA's MSForms UI framework.
This is the complete code-behind for an example ...
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Sending notifications with Django channels
I have project on Django wich use Django Channels. I use Django Channel for sending notifications to users who are subscribed to articles changes (adding/editing/deleting comments on article).
So I'...
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Function to conect to Firebase Rest API via Access VBA
This is the application for small school, which will store students' info in Firebase and also retrieve data from Firebase. I am using JSON Parser to parse the data and save the same in Access tables.
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Private VBA Class Initializer called from Factory #2
About
This is a follow-up of a previous question Private VBA Class Initializer called from Factory. I've decided to create a new question instead of answering my old question because I would like the ...
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Geode Contents Predictor StardewValley Mod
The goal
I really enjoy the game Stardew Valley. One of the things that the game has are geodes. Much like real-world geodes, these geodes can be cracked open, and you can find some fun things inside....
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Cyther: The Cross Platform Cython/Python Compiler (Take 2)
I recently posted an earlier version of this code on Code Review, and now with the given suggestions and many other improvements, I am back. I included the description of exactly what Cyther is ...
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Sieve32FastV2 - A fast parallel Sieve of Eratosthenes
I’ve created a much cleaner, better designed version to my parallel sieve. I’ve implemented most of EBrown’s micro-optimizations but also revamped the code on my own (that is not in direct response ...
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Hunt the Wumpus GUI (FLTK)
I used the code from the text based hunt the wumpus game discussed here: Text based game “Hunt the Wumpus” Version 3 to create a gui Version based on excercises from PPP by Stroustrup.
For the GUI i ...
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Function that recursively downloads entire directory is slow
I created this function to recursively copy an entire directory from an FTP server. It works just fine except that it is about 4 times slower than using FileZilla to do the same operation. It takes ...
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A VBA program to quantify the performance of code execution timers
Motivation
I am interested in optimising the execution time of code with short (fast) execution times on the order of microseconds (µs), but that will be used with high frequency (e.g. like ...
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Tree for PowerShell
For anyone reading this old question, this module has evolved and improved a lot since then. It has been fully rewritten in C# and uploaded to the PowerShell Gallery! If you would like to try it out:
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A simple Qt + MQTT doorbell application
So I built a house recently and didn't want to rely on "privacy-questionnable" systems like Google Home or Amazon whatever so I decided to build a doorbell system myself.
Hardware
I use a ...
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Implementing GSL synchronized_value
Core Guidelines mention a type synchronized_value<T>, which supposedly pairs std::mutex with the internal value. I couldn'...
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Calculation of independence test statistic
This code (~30lines) detects independence between variables in a dataset, by using a bootstrap of a statistic. This is fully-broadcasted, but it's still long.
Reading it, or making it run, do you ...
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Engineering an even faster qsort
I understand that C++ STL template sort runs faster than qsort in C because ...
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Responding to Events of Dynamically added Controls
I was asked for an example of a class to wrap dynamically added controls as I suggested in this Answer. Although it is out of the context of a Code Review, I thought that it would make an interesting ...
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Battleship MVC Architecture
The entry point is the Macros module, which - for now - includes only a single procedure, at a very high abstraction level - I'm quite happy with this:
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IndexedArray Class: Uses a Dictionary Keys to Index a 2 Dimensional Array of Values
This class encapsulates a 2D Array and a Scripting Dictionary. Values are add or returned from to the Array using a Key and a ColumnIndex, e.g. ...
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Bringing The System.Text.StringBuilder Up To Lightning Speed In The VBA
After having to swap the feature rich System.Text.StringBuilder for the very fast but very vanilla A lightning-fast StringBuilder, I decided it was time create a ...
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Small Virtual Machine executing its own byte-code
I want present to you my little Virtual Machine. It nothing really sophisticated. It is an stack only virtual machine with the exception for some 'global' variables which i would count as registers ...
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Simple, intuitive and (hopefully) safe EventDispatcher
For my own game engine I need an event system. I tried to avoid the single-huge-enum-approach for minimizing compile times.
The BasicEventListener is the (...
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C++ constexpr trampoline
For fun, I implemented a trampoline function for C++ constexpr functions, since the recursion limit for constexpr functions is ...
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STTCL FSM framework based on the GoF State Pattern, Part I: The basic interfaces
Preface
I have decided to let my pet project created some years ago to undergo a code review here.
The review will be broken into parts according to meta question Multiple reviews or one big review?...
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Kattis problem Amanda Lounges
I wrote this solution to Kattis problem Amanda Lounges in Scala. TL;DR: It's a graph theory problem where I read in a list of edges from stdin and try to compute the minimum number of nodes that ...
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.NET DLL Injector in C++
I built a DLL Injector with User-Interface.
The program lists all processes, the user chooses one of them and a DLL, and inject it.
It's my first project in C++, and I know it's not exactly C++ ...
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I am using boost::process to call an external process, and using stdout, stderr, and stdin to supply/retrieve data
I have some program which takes input via stdin, writes output to stdout, and errors to stderr. I would like to call that program from another program, supplying data via stdin, and capturing output/...
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constexpr Sin Function C++ 14
I have written a constexpr sin function using c++14 and would like to know what I can do to improve it. I am trying to balance code clarity/maintainability with ...
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