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How would big O notation help in my day to day c# programming? Is this just an academic exercise?
Started by dotnet-practitioner on
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by 16 people.
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Big-O lets you know the asymptotic running time of any function, that way you can as there are many other differences between....
Naw, I was wondering that too, but now I find myself thinking about big-O just about every time I use a library.
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Why is it considered to be such a big deal to have a 64-bit computer? Why does it "change everything?" Why do applications need to be designed differently between 32- and 64-bit platforms?
And, on OS X, how do you find which one you have!?
Started by stalepretzel on
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by 20 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The fundamental "big deal" on 64bit is that you gain access to a much larger memory details on why the....
The reason why it's a big deal is because in a 32-bit system, programs can only utilize 2^32 - it's the same codebase.
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So apparently, there's been a big brouhaha over whether or not Python needs tail call optimization. This came to a head when someone shipped Guido a copy of SICP because he didn't "get it." I'm in the same boat as Guido. I understand the concept of tail...
Started by Jason Baker on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Personally, i put.
Tail call optimization, calling this with a big number could overflow the stack.
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I have a file from which I read data. All the text from this file is stored in a String variable (a very big variable). Then in another part of my app I want to walk through this string and extract useful information, step-by-step (parsing the string)...
Started by hsmit on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If what you want to parse happens to be on the same line, then StringTokenizer will work quite nicely, else you have to devise a way to read what you want from... .
You should be using the BufferedInputReader instead of storing this all into one large string .
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Hello
Some how our server is being over run by outgoing emails, which we think are spam. We normally use plesk to administer it but it is currently crashing.
If we do a
ps aux | grep 'qmail'
We get about 200 of these
qmailq 25340 0.0 0.0 2640 408 ? D ...
Started by neilc on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
If you find ....
This might show if someone is forwarding mail directly through a misconfigured mailserver acting as an open relay (port 25), or if they're pushing stuff through your scripts (port 80/443) .
Someone is connecting, but how? Run netstat -tp.
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Can someone explain to me what exactly is so bad about using the backslash as the namespace operator for PHP6? It's impossible to read any discussion about PHP6 these days without someone making some scoffing remark about it. One StackOverflower even ...
Started by nickf on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If PHP....
What's so bad about it: Can you spot the error in the following code?
if(class_exists("namespace1\namespace2\myClass")) echo "This will never be true";
What would I have suggested: Unfortunately, '\' is the only single single character available .
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New Big 12 TV Deal Big 12, ESPN near blockbuster deal that will bump conference TV revenue to $2.5 billion over 13 years."
http://t.co/s20VuvRj
Started by Txbroadcaster on
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by 28 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at shaggybevo):
Impressive that for 1st and 2nd tier rights, the Big as they newly expanded Pac 12.....
Sounds like a win/win to me.
I think the bigger story is that this deal effectively ends tier revenue).
Mediocre in the big 12 lest you forgot...
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Gravatar is linked to email address. If I enter somebody else's email - I can use his/her photo as avatar and that someone won't like it.
So the obvious solution is - validate email - which some other people will not like either.
The question is - is ...
Started by Evgeny on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It is very rare, and email verification is a big pain for users..
This problem.
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I'm told that Clojure has lockless concurrency and that this is Important.
I've used a number of languages but didn't realize they were performing locks behind the scenes.
Why is this an advantage in Clojure (or in any language that has this feature)?...
Started by i_like_monkeys on
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by 7 people.
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If nothing can be modified, you don't really....
Typically it's achieved with immutable types.
Which is great.
It means you don't need to wait for someone to be done with something before you can get to work .
I can't speak about Clojure specifically, but ...
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I don't see what all this fuss is about Microsoft's decision to support JQuery within ASP.NET MVC.
There were signs that open-minded people are starting to have some say in the matters of marketing for a while now. And even the way MS does business has...
Started by Mihai Lazar on
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by 13 people.
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And in this case supposition ....
Think about of the biggest player in the software industry, so anything it does is a big deal.
This doesn't seem like a big deal, but its almost nuclear in its implications.
Of their products.
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