Questions tagged [technique]
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How can I favor quick (and dirty) over clean (and slow) in practice?
Preface, TL;DR
This question is about the implied tradeoff between the speed of development and the quality of code.
I am looking for methodologies which can be followed in order to optimize development speed, even at the expense of code-quality and…
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What is the name of the following (anti) pattern? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
Over the last few months, I stumbled a few times over the following technique / pattern. However, I can't seem to find a specific name, nor am I a 100% sure about all its advantages and disadvantages.
The pattern goes as follows:
Within a Java…
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How do you keep track of large projects?
When dealing with a project that has many different files, I always seem to loose track of how the parts interact with one another. I've never really had much of a problem understanding smaller components in isolation, but as the complexity of the…
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What process do you normally use when attempting to debug a problem/issue/bug with your software?
Most people seem to treat debugging as an art, rather than a science. For those here which treat it as a science, rather than an art - what process(es) do you normally use when faced with a new issue/bug/problem?
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What do you need to succeed with Agile?
Agile adoption can fail in some organizations, I even worked for a company where waterfall was the only (the true) way but only because they tried Agile on a project and failed.
When I asked the people who still remembered that (I was a junior) I…
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What is the point of the prototype method?
I am reading through Javascript: The Good Parts, and struggled to get my head around the section on prototypes.
After a little google, I came to the conclusion that it is to add properties to objects after the objects declaration.
Using this script…
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A new CAPTCHA using sentences?
I was just thinking about how recaptcha is getting harder when I thought about another posible solution. Images won't last forever so we will need something else some day - like human logic or emotion. Google and others are trying grouping images by…
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How do you call the process of taking a part of a function and making an individual function of it?
I know there was a technical term for this. I'm just can't remember what it was.
If the title needs clarification, here is what I mean; If this is the old code:
Result foobar(Param1,Param2,Param3) {
code that does abc
code that does xyz
code…
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How can I reduce the amount of storage needed for a gravitational n-body simulation?
I am currently attempting to create a gravitational n-body simulation using a modified Barnes-Hut algorithm, to be more amicable to GPU computation. This is primarily as a learning project. My goal is to simulate a number of stars comparable to that…
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What are the common techniques to handle user-generated HTML modified differently by different browsers?
I am developing a website updater. The front end uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and the backend uses Python.
The way it works is that , and some other HTML elements can be updated by the user. To enable this, I load the webpage and, with…
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What techniques are used in solving code golf problems?
"Regular" golf vs. code golf:
Both are competitions. Both have a well-defined set of rules, which I'll leave out for simplicity. Both have well-defined goals; in short, "use fewer hits/characters than your competitors."
To win matches, athletic…
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Suggestions to manage semi-structured email bounces?
The company I work for sends a lot of emails, and in return we get a lot of bounces.
We currently don't have a good way of sorting them and help us archive the routine ones while putting the important ones in front of human eyes.
From a format of…
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Technique for multiple users on same datasets
This is more a learning question than coding, but I'm certain it's a common issue for anyone developing administration systems or applications in php/mysql/js etc.
I've developed quite a complex application that lets users upload images, and define…
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What is the technical terminology for the practice of checking for null and edge cases in programming?
I took a PHP test for NASA recently and thought I should have done better. I believe the issue is something I used to know about, but need a refresher in. I can't remember what it is called though. It is the concept that you have to check for null,…
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Sorting an array of numbers with decimal places
Suppose I have an array of float values in the following format:
{ 1.34, 1.15, 1.1, 1.2, 1.26, 1.10, 1.20, 1.17 }
Suppose they have been provided by user input (or some other mechanism), where the user takes "1.1" to actually mean "1.01" - meaning…
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