Unanswered Questions
6,673 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Swiftly turning wheels – The May 2017 Community Challenge
This is my attempt at the May 2017 Community Challenge in Swift, with a chain consisting of
rigid links.
I took this as an opportunity
to learn SpriteKit, Apple's
framework for 2D games. At least ...
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Making a generic NSMapTable replacement written in Swift thread-safe
This is a follow-up to this question.
While discussing some details about the code I posted there, I came upon a problem with thread-safety. After searching and trying different things, I reached a ...
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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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CMake Project Template for a General Cross Platform C++14 Project
UPDATE: I am no longer updating this post with the contents of my actual project since they have changed significantly (Unit testing is now done with doctest, code coverage is included, etc.). This ...
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BF welcomes Fibonnaci
Slightly inspired by a previous question/april fools joke I decided to take on Fibonnaci sequence in the lovely language Brainfuck.
In order to do this I have also worked on Brainduck, which is a ...
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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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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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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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Tracking the bounding box of a map
Context
I have a bunch of data points that look roughly like this:
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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.
The ...
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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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Water flowing swiftly over farmland – The August 2016 Community Challenge
This is my attempt to solve the August 2016 Community Challenge in Swift. I tried to implement the algorithm
described by @200_success:
Each Cell keeps track ...
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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 ...
